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desifemlove wrote:Ok....so only roads is good ting UNC done?
can anybody anyting positive bar roads, box drain, road re-surfacing, water pipes, or any other physical infrastructure?
rabiesebola wrote:PP has achieved quite alot...1. First government to fire everybody who dey hire 2. First government to create a law overnight to free white collar bandits 3. First government to subsidize flour and oil (like everyone does eat curry) 4. First government to hire ppl with false papers (most likely d same kind of ppl dat vote dem) 5. First government that expects to "RUN OFF" with the next election LOL
well done PP
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Ministry removes derelict ships from sea
Joshua Surtees
Published:
Monday, August 25, 2014
Twenty ships, most of them partially capsized, rotting or sunk, have been officially taken possession of by the Ministry of Transport.
In full page colour ads in newspapers on Friday, with images of bedraggled ships, the ministry sought to highlight the initiative it has taken in tackling the problem of marine debris in its waters. Steven Valdez, of the yachting association, has been a constant and vigilant spokesman on the issue and said in and spoke interview about the frustrations faced by those who use the sea. "The red tape and legal implications were always going to be a challenge in having these derelicts removed," Valdez said.
"The reason why they were dumped in our waters in the first place was due to complacency on the part of the relevant authorities and laws that are outdated. It's now up to the fishermen, ship captains, sailors, boaters and environmentalist to keep a vigilant eye out for any new derelicts entering our waters. We have to protect our ocean because it appears that those charged with that responsibility have not been efficient in nipping this situation in the bud."
The ministry note informed the public that the vessels had been claimed as they were stranded and abandon and were and dangerous obstruction to navigate. Valdez indicated that the action was long overdue. "Many of these old vessels have been stuck to our ocean beds for many years and will require a massive and costly exercise to have them floated and/or removed," he said.
"The minister and the public servants involved appear to be serious about having them removed but the delays are constant and with each passing day, the risk of more vessels finding their way to the bottom of the ocean, due to leaks that no one is monitoring on board, is great. These vessels pose a serious threat to the environment. They also pose a threat to national security as there have been numerous reports of illicit activities taking place on board these vessels during the night."
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2014-08- ... -ships-sea
Mexico-T&T trade grows 28 per cent
Aleem Khan
Published:
Monday, August 25, 2014
Trade between Mexico and T&T has grown 28 per cent year on year, according to the August 2014 issue of the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry magazine Protocolo. “In 2013 trade between Mexico and T&T totalled US$366 million, around 28 per cent more than the previous year, driven by Mexico’s natural gas, liquid ammonia and methanol purchases,” Protocolo said. From Mexico, T&T imports minerals, refrigerators, prepared foods, iron and steel pipes, PVC, and more.
The 28 per cent increase between 2012 and 2013, however, comes on the heels of a decline from the US$286.3 million bilateral trade of 2011 when Mexico exported to T&T US$65.7 million and imported from T&T US$220.6 million. Up to May 2012 total trade was already at US$86.5 million, down from US$113.3 million during the same period the year prior.
Mexican exports to T&T grew from US$25.7 million to US$33.1 million during the same period. Mexican imports from T&T decreased in the first five months of 2012, from US$87.6 million to US$53.4 million. Trade between T&T and Mexico has always been going up and down. In 2008, it peaked when Mexico imported US$947.3 million from T&T. In 2001, it fell to as low as US$33.8 million.
T&T is Mexico’s main trade partner in the Caribbean Community (Caricom). In 2011, total Mexican trade with Caricom was US$930.4 million, and T&T alone accounted for almost 30 per cent of that. In the geographic Caribbean, however, T&T is Mexico’s third largest trading partner, after the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Mexico is T&T’s 11th largest trade partner by volume. First is the United States, second is Colombia, followed by the United Kingdom, Russia, Jamaica, Spain, Gabon (West Coast of Central Africa), China, Brazil and Barbados. Natural gas is not always T&T’s top export to Mexico. In 2011, ammonia was T&T’s top export to Mexico when this country exported US$111.5 million to the Aztec country. Second was iron, then methanol, urea, iron products. In sixth place was natural gas.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/business/2014 ... ws-28-cent
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- International summits wit no lasting value
- Personal media intimidation by PNM PMs....
- Vision 2020 wit no defined metrics for success
- Ah blimp for monitoring/spying in a supposed free country
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UML wrote:Mexico-T&T trade grows 28 per cent
Aleem Khan
Published:
Monday, August 25, 2014
Trade between Mexico and T&T has grown 28 per cent year on year, according to the August 2014 issue of the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry magazine Protocolo. “In 2013 trade between Mexico and T&T totalled US$366 million, around 28 per cent more than the previous year, driven by Mexico’s natural gas, liquid ammonia and methanol purchases,” Protocolo said. From Mexico, T&T imports minerals, refrigerators, prepared foods, iron and steel pipes, PVC, and more.
The 28 per cent increase between 2012 and 2013, however, comes on the heels of a decline from the US$286.3 million bilateral trade of 2011 when Mexico exported to T&T US$65.7 million and imported from T&T US$220.6 million. Up to May 2012 total trade was already at US$86.5 million, down from US$113.3 million during the same period the year prior.
Mexican exports to T&T grew from US$25.7 million to US$33.1 million during the same period. Mexican imports from T&T decreased in the first five months of 2012, from US$87.6 million to US$53.4 million. Trade between T&T and Mexico has always been going up and down. In 2008, it peaked when Mexico imported US$947.3 million from T&T. In 2001, it fell to as low as US$33.8 million.
T&T is Mexico’s main trade partner in the Caribbean Community (Caricom). In 2011, total Mexican trade with Caricom was US$930.4 million, and T&T alone accounted for almost 30 per cent of that. In the geographic Caribbean, however, T&T is Mexico’s third largest trading partner, after the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Mexico is T&T’s 11th largest trade partner by volume. First is the United States, second is Colombia, followed by the United Kingdom, Russia, Jamaica, Spain, Gabon (West Coast of Central Africa), China, Brazil and Barbados. Natural gas is not always T&T’s top export to Mexico. In 2011, ammonia was T&T’s top export to Mexico when this country exported US$111.5 million to the Aztec country. Second was iron, then methanol, urea, iron products. In sixth place was natural gas.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/business/2014 ... ws-28-cent
T&T jumps 3 points in World Bank rankings
Story Created: Oct 28, 2013 at 9:18 PM ECT
Story Updated: Oct 28, 2013 at 9:18 PM ECT
Trinidad and Tobago has placed 66 out of 189 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2014 rankings. This is a three-point jump from last year’s position of 69 from 185.
In its Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises report, released yesterday, the World Bank said in the Caribbean region, Trinidad and Tobago, along with Jamaica (94) and the Bahamas (84), took steps to improve their business regulatory environment over the past year.
The highest-ranking Caribbean country was St Lucia at 64. Guyana ranked 115 and Barbados was 91.
Trinidad and Tobago was recognised for simplifying procedures for registering a new business. The country also featured in a case study highlighting efforts to lower the cost of connecting to the power supply.
Jamaica led the region by adopting new legislation for private credit bureaus, reducing the corporate income tax rate, and streamlining procedures for starting a new business. The Bahamas reduced the cost of transferring property and improved its insolvency process.
“It is encouraging to see countries in the Caribbean engaged in reforms aimed at reducing burdensome regulations and building stronger legal institutions,” said Augusto Lopez-Claros, director, Global Indicators and Analysis, World Bank Group.
“Even after these achievements, however, more can be done to improve the quality of the rules underpinning the activities of the private sector, to ensure continued convergence toward the better practices seen elsewhere in the world.”
Singapore ranked number one, followed by Hong Kong SAR, China; New Zealand; the United States; Denmark; Malaysia; South Korea; Georgia; Norway; and the United Kingdom.
“Any move (upwards) is in the right direction, but 66 is still way down; we should be aiming for a top ten position,” president of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association Nicholas Lok Jack said yesterday.
He said while making it easier to establish a new business was good for encouraging entrepreneurship, it did not really do much for already established firms. He said, however, he was happy to see Trade Minister Vasant Bharath, who was responsible for spearheading the ease of doing business mechanisms, was promoting efficiency and productivity in the public sector, which could only be a benefit to the country.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/business ... 31601.html
World Bank report: Trinidad becoming even more business-friendly
Posted 10/31/2013 by InvesTT
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Trinidad and Tobago is one of three Caribbean economies that improved their business regulatory environment for small and medium-sized businesses over the past year. This news comes from the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 Report.
T&T moved from a position of 69th out of 185 countries in ease of doing business overall, to 66th out of 189 countries. The report also cites Jamaica and the Bahamas as Caribbean economies that have improved their regulatory environments since the 2012 Doing Business report.
Doing Business Report Trinidad
The 2014 report ranked economies across ten indicators in the business life cycle: starting a business, permitting for construction, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. A section comparing economies’ regulations for employing workers is also included.
Trinidad’s 2014 position for ease of starting a business is the result of the merging of its statutory declaration of compliance into the standard articles of incorporation form. This follows the republic’s simplified preregistration and registration formalities from 2013, in publication, notarisation, inspection and other requirements.
T&T’s consistent work to improve its regulatory environment for business may be most clearly demonstrated by the 2014 report’s “distance to frontier” indicator. That measure shows how far an economy is from the best performance achieved by any economy on each Doing Business indicator since 2003 or the first year data was collected. Trinidad placed at 70 percent of frontier for ease of construction permitting. Its highest frontier improvement across the past five years was an increase from 40 percent to 75 percent in ease of getting credit.
In 2013, Trinidad was one of 27 economies that used various strategies to reduce their costs of electricity connection. T&T revised its capital contribution policy so that first customers are no longer funding the bulk of construction work for connecting to the grid to the benefit of future customers.
The work to use lower energy costs to spur economic growth has been an ongoing effort. Its economy was one of 103 cited for its good practices in transparent connection costs and processes. T&TEC, the country's energy retailer, is required to show how capital contribution costs are arrived at and to provide information about average costs for various projects. In addition to the revised capital contribution policy, Trinidad now has well defined, transparent processes for addressing typical issues that arise around exemptions, reimbursement and dispute resolution. These improvements raised its ranking in the getting electricity indicator of the annual Doing Business reports from 11 in 2013 to 10 in 2014.
More detail on how T&T tackled its electricity connection cost issue is detailed in a case study in the 2014 report.
An “ease of worker employability” section has accompanied the recent Doing Business reports. For 2014, T&T compares favourably with other economies for its lack of minimum wage requirements, up to 60-hour work weeks and allowance of fixed-term contracts for permanent tasks.
Trinidad’s highest rankings in the report are for ease of regulations in protecting investors (ranked 22nd out of 189 countries), getting credit (28th) and getting electricity (10th). Areas where Trinidad needs to improve to ease business regulations are enforcing contracts (ranked 174th) and registering property (178th). Still, last year T&T was praised in the Doing Business report for reducing the time needed to obtain its clearance certificate by 35 days, from 42 days to 7 days.
Trinidad’s steady improvement across a range of regulatory requirements for business has been recognised in other global business publications in the past two years. In 2012, Trinidad and Tobago ranked 66th out of 141 countries, ninth among Latin American and Caribbean nations, in Forbes Magazine’s 2012 list of the best countries in which to do business. In 2013, Forbes ranked Trinidad and Tobago 66th out of 144 countries.
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Morpheus wrote:Kudos to government for finally fully paving the Eastern Main Road and not just patching! In most cases patching only made it worse!
I avoided the main road due to that damn obstacle course....
Kudos!
Your move WASA....and TSTT too!!!
eliteauto wrote:Bill has passed
4 companies vie to become third mobile provider
Story Created: Aug 13, 2014 at 10:20 PM ECT
Story Updated: Aug 13, 2014 at 10:20 PM ECT
Applications from four companies—including a multinational shareholder in State controlled Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) and a cable TV operator—to become the country’s third mobile phone service provider are being reviewed by the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT).
Cable and Wireless (Trinidad and Tobago), Columbus Communications Trinidad, Star Mobile Caribbean and Telesur are the companies that have applied to TATT for a concession and licence to provide mobile telecommunications services. Cable and Wireless is a 49 per cent shareholder in TSTT.
Columbus Communications, through its Flow subsidiary, provides cable TV services to the local market. Cable and Wireless Trinidad, Star Mobile and Columbus listed Port of Spain addresses in their applications which were announced in a published notice by TATT yesterday.
Telesur’s office is registered in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Earlier this year, Cable and Wireless chief executive Phil Bentley told the Express in an interview the company was interested in acquiring two per cent more of TSTT and also wanted to make more investments to boost TSTT’s profitability.
After years of turning profits, TSTT recently posted a loss of more than $500 million for its year ended March 2014. Acting chief executive George Hill recently told the Express the company was projecting a $100 million profit next year as part of its five-year strategic plant to transform the company.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar initially expressed an interest in providing a third mobile provider for the country in 2011.
TSTT through its bmobile network and Digicel are the current mobile providers in the country.
Available data indicates there are more than 1.8 million mobile subscriptions in the country who bring in revenues of around $2 billion a year.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/4-c ... 72001.html
T&T moves up in global competitiveness
Rapheal John-Lall
Published:
Thursday, September 4, 2014
T&T has moved up three places in the latest Global Competitiveness Report, rising from position 92 to 89 out of 144 countries. Balraj Kistow, a member of the faculty of the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, unveiled the latest rankings in a presentation at the school’s Mount Hope campus yesterday.
“T&T is well ahead of the other countries in the region in terms of how it has performed. We are competing against the very best. We are seen in the world as one of the most developed economies and we have been placed in the category of an innovation driven economy. “We have lots of strong competitive advantages such as judicial independence and the macro economic environment,” he said. Switzerland tops the latest global rankings followed by Singapore, while Guinea is at the bottom of the 2014 list.
The report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 144 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity. It is regarded as the most comprehensive assessment of national competitiveness worldwide. The latest report says that the most problematic factors in doing business in T&T are inefficient government bureaucracy, corruption and poor work ethic.
The improvement in T&T’s ranking was welcomed by Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine who said the rankings were an important tool used by policy makers and governments to guide economic policy. He noted that T&T has very strong macro economic metrics such as low unemployment and low inflation. “We have been able to achieve a low level of unemployment and the lowest ever recorded of 3.7 per cent. We have also been able to keep unemployment low at four to five per cent.
“We now have in excess of US$5 billion in the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) and this contributes to the robust macro economic environment which allows us to have pretty strong expenditure in health, education and national security,” Ramnarine said. The minister cited recent examples of Government's expenditure on infrastructure and social services, including the children's hospital in Couva and plans for new hospitals in Sangre Grande, Arima and Point Fortin.
He also said there has been “tremendous progress” in higher education and training and boasted that T&T now has some of the best skills in the energy sector globally. “There are now more T&T nationals moving outside the country with their skills than those from outside working in T&T. This is a reverse of the situation we had in the 1970s and 1980s. We have some of the best energy talent in the world and there are nationals of the country all over the world,” he said.
The Global Competitiveness Report said bureaucracy is one of the main inhibitions to doing business in T&T. Ramnarine said: “The T&T Government has piloted the Procurement Bill which will bring change in governance and once passed, it will improve that ranking.” Admitting that “there is still a lot of work to be done” the minister added: “There are a lot of good things and challenges that the Government has to meet.”
http://www.guardian.co.tt/business/2014 ... titiveness
Number portability coming to T&T
Published:
Sunday, August 31, 2014
The Telecommunications Authority also announced last week that mobile to mobile number portability would start in T&T on February 26, 2015 and that fixed to mobile number portability would start on May 1, 2015.
Number portability is the ability of a customer to retain the same telephone number when they change their telephone provider. the telecom regulator said that the interconnection regulations requires concessionaires to “configure its network to facilitate number portability between similar networks, as and when directed by the authority.”
TATT said that it published a policy document on the issue on September 30, 2012 and on January 15, 2013 it started meeting all operators who are required to implement number portability. The operators are Colombus Communications, Digicel, Lisa Communications, Open Telecom, TSTT and Three Sixty Communications.
“The authority required that each said operator conduct an assessment of its state of readiness so as to deduce the most appropriate date of commencement for the implementation of mobile to mobile number portability and fixed to mobile number portability,” said the announcement. The notice on number portability came in a “determination that is binding upon all operators so required by the authority to implement number portability.”
According to the document, the determination takes effect on the day that it is published. The determination was signed by TATT chairman Selby Wilson on July 31 but was posted on the regulator’s Web site on Thursday.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/business/2014 ... -coming-tt
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