What should be in the mid-year review?
Ideally, the mid-year budget review should provide the population of T&T, and its other stakeholders, with a clear sense of how the Minister of Finance is progressing in meeting the goals and targ
IDB prunes loans to promote progress
After years of increasing its loan portfolio with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the current administration took a decision last year to reduce its exposure to the Washington DC-based inst
Is property tax now a bad idea?
It may sound strange in a country in which tax avoidance and evasion has become an entrenched part of the culture, but I am actually looking forward to paying my first property tax bill.
Is the refinery for sale?
When Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced two weeks ago that he would be travelling to Houston this week to hold talks with several energy companies, my ears pricked up when he mentioned that he woul
Is Mr Imbert a zero...or a hero?
​While Finance Minister Colm Imbert has been savaged in the press and in Parliament for his "arrogance," his failure to stimulate the domestic economy and the increasing pub­lic debt, little attention
Reduced gas supply led to methanol plant closures
Negotiations between state-owned National Gas Company (NGC) and the world's second largest methanol producer, foreign-owned Methanol Holdings Trinidad Ltd (MHTL
Does the PNM care about foreign investors?
A series of perhaps unrelated events requires the country to ask this question: Given the precarious nature of T&T's current revenue streams—as a result of the collapse in late 2014 in the price o
Does MHTL matter?
There is not likely to be much argument with the proposition that the population of this country owes its standard of living to the wealth generated at Point Lisas and in Point Fortin.
Dear Madam Minister
​In a letter dated March 1 (Ash Wednesday), Minister of Labour, Jennifer Baptiste-Primus was informed in no uncertain terms, that Industrial Plant Service Ltd (IPSL), the company that operates the fiv
Methanol Holdings closes two plants, offers VSEP to workers
​About a year after Caribbean Ispat closed its iron and steel facility on the Point Lisas Industrial Estate, Methanol Holdings Trinidad Ltd confirmed yesterday that it is mothballing two of its five m