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6 days ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
News THE NEWLY-elected Opposition leader has a mammoth task on her hands. Given the PNM’s loss in the April 28 General Elections, with the party losing eight seats to now have 13 seats and more than 100,000 PNM supporters losing faith and refusing to turn out for the election, the PNM, now led by Penelope Beckles, has to climb back to its former glory.
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6 days ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
Business MASSY Group reported a 16.3 per cent increase in profits and an 80.4 per cent surge in cash flow for the six-month period ending March 31. In a media release on May 9, Massy CEO David Affonso said the group’s profit before tax from continuing operations increased to $556.7 million, while net cash from operations jumped to $744.9 million. Revenue grew by 3.9 per cent to $7.9 billion as compared to $7.6 billion in the same period in 2024.
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6 days ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
Business MASSY Group reported a 16.3 per cent increase in profits and an 80.4 per cent surge in cash flow for the six-month period ending March 31. In a media release on May 9, Massy CEO David Affonso said the group’s profit before tax from continuing operations increased to $556.7 million, while net cash from operations jumped to $744.9 million. Revenue grew by 3.9 per cent to $7.9 billion as compared to $7.6 billion in the same period in 2024.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
News MINISTER of Energy and Energy Industries Dr Roodal Moonilal met with a UK delegation from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero at the ministry's head office in Port of Spain, on May 7. In a release, the Ministry said the meeting focused on promoting alternative energy by addressing legislative and regulatory gaps that hinder its deployment.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
News THE 267th pope has been elected. He is Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost. Prevost will be the first elected Pope from the US in history. Cardinal Prevost was the leader of the Vatican’s office for the Dicastery of Bishops, a department within the Roman Catholic Church that oversees the selection of new bishops. He also spent many years as a missionary in Peru. He was the leader of the Augustinian order. He was also known as an experienced and wise leader.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
Business TT’S new government is hitting the ground running, with the energy sector being one of its focuses. Declaring the embattled and coveted Dragon gas deal as "dead," the Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she is now looking at other areas to ensure TT’s oil and gas sector’s future. This time her focus is in the Caricom region. "I have a surprise for you," said a smiling Persad-Bissessar, at the swearing-in ceremony for her cabinet at the President’s House on May 4.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
Business Bmobile will be discontinuing its cheque payment system, effective May 12. The announcement was made in a media release on May 7. "Personal cheque usage has steadily declined over the years, with bmobile receiving fewer than 30 personal cheques per month from April 2024 to February 2025," the release said.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
News The new Kamla Persad-Bissessar-led government has abandoned the dragon deal and announced plans to go to Grenada, Guyana and Suriname to fulfill its promise for TT energy security. Among those plans, the TT Government is eyeing the Nutmeg field, a relatively unexplored oil and gas reserve discovered about 100 km south west of the island just inside the Grenadian border, in 2017.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
News The People’s National Movement has officially announced Penelope Beckles as their pick for opposition leader. In a statement sent on May 4, the PNM said it “unequivocally places its fullest support” behind Beckles as opposition leader. The party said the decision followed a general meeting on April 30. “This decisions heralds a watershed moment for the PNM and TT as it comes after careful and deliberate consideration...
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Ryan Hamilton-Davis
News A 31-year-old woman is now in hospital being treated for multiple wounds after a purse snatcher stabbed her several times during a robbery in Barataria. Police said at about 2.15 pm on May 3, the woman was walking south on the walkover on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Barataria, near DHL, when a man who was walking in the other direction grabbed her bag. The bag contained her TT national identification card, $20 cash and a Redmi Note 9 pro cellphone valued at $2,500.
