This week’s blackout taught us a great lesson: the street windscreen wiper boys at the West Mall traffic lights are human! Not only are they human and not freaks intent on mischief, but they are also brave entrepreneurs. Who would have thought? When anxiety levels were rising, they, who reportedly live …
Read More »Thompson sees seventh heaven despite deficit, imminent Property Tax and RATT
The budget presented by the Honourable Colm Imbert, minister of finance in the current PNM administration, is his seventh such offering. Not for the first time, he has offered the country a deficit budget, to the tune of $TT9.096 billion, resulting from expenditure in the sum of $TT52.429b and revenue …
Read More »‘The gov’t did what it thought was best, but now it’s getting extreme’; Day in the life of a casino employee
“[…] I didn’t feel good about my line of work being forced to close, but on a bigger scale, I understood that it was done to protect citizens and to ensure the safety of me and my loved ones. The government had its job to do, and it did what …
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