I’m no puppet master says Warner
New Chaguanas Mayor Natasha Navas speaks on Ramjack platform tomorrow night. Jack Warner says she will be provided with advisors.
Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner has denied that he is the “puppet master” pulling the strings to manipulate new Chaguanas Mayor Natasha Navas who will be making her first appearance on his rebel “Movement [...]
WIPA hits back at Lloyd, Holding
Players are not greedy says WIPA. Lloyd and others had also signed up with Kerry Packer for more money in the 1970s forcing West Indies to field a second string side
The West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) has strongly defended itself against
criticism from former cricketers Clive Lloyd and Michael Holding. Speaking to
Cricinfo last week, [...]
WICB in ICC money muddle
The WICB is late in paying its cricketers. It is also late in submitting its accounts to the ICC.
by Martin Williamson
Cricinfo has learned that the Pakistan Cricket Board, Sri Lanka
Cricket and the West Indies Cricket Board are late in filing their audited
accounts and so risk delays in receiving funding of around US$2.8m from [...]
Islamic Banking payout Thursday
Central Bank to release CIB Islamic Banking Funds Thursday. Run down to Herbert Street for your money!
People who invested in the Clico Investment Bank’s (CIB) Islamic Banking Scheme which was formed (IBS) eight years ago and which has an asset base of $40 million appear to be among the last to get back their funds [...]
Arima tonight for PNM
Another PNM Monday night meeting. What will Patrick Manning tell Arima?
Prime Minister Patrick Manning will tonight continue his campaign of Monday night “political education” meetings, in the absence of Local Government elections, at what the People’s National Movement (PNM) calls the “College of Arima Promenade”.
The meeting is scheduled to start at [...]
$682m. Nipdec bond issue oversubscribed
The $682 million bond issue was oversubscribed by over $400 million. There certainly is a lot of loose cash around.
The National Insurance Property Development Company’s (NIPDEC) July 21 $682 million bond issue has been oversubscribed- further evidence of the amount of loose cash around, despite all the “ole talk” of recession and poor business.
Big business [...]
OCM makes $34 million in first 6 months
Chairman Sir Gollop describes staff cuts as reduction in headcount. The company, however, is still very profitable.
Caribbean Communications Network (CCN0 down on Independence Square, Port of Spain is embarking (if it hasn’t already done so) on a campaign of downsizing its staff while the recent MFO survey shows it ahead of the competition [...]
W.I stars left in the cold
Spitting in the face of public opinion in the Caribbean, the WICB persists with a third string team. Some people believe that the Caricom governments should step in and end the nonsense.
Disregarding the West Indies’ humiliating series loss to a team regarded in international cricket circles as a joke circles, The West Indies [...]
Bicycles for San F’do councillors
San Fernandians do not know who their councillors are. So Mayor Fergusson has come up with the bright idea of putting them on bicycles in hilly San Fernando.
There were guffaws recently when it was announced that a police bicycle squad would be created to fight rising crime.
Now San Fernando Mayor Kenneth Fergusson, unhappy [...]
Single digit inflation
The Central Bank announces a drop in the inflation rate. But why are prices still so high?
Inflation has gone down to single digits- from 10.3 per cent in May to 8.4 per cent last month.
The Central Bank announced on Friday that this was the lowest rate for the last 17 months.
Food [...]