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shake d livin wake d dead wrote:As I always used to say...crime and politics under any pnm govt is a sight for sore eyes...just look at those contracts awarded in those pnm strongholds...
Good news from Moody’s
Clint Chan Tack
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert said international ratings agency Moody's has expressed optimism for TT's economic outlook. In his Twitter feed on Monday, Imbert said, "Moody's today published an in-depth statement that TT's credit profile will benefit from improved prospects from from higher energy production, moderate fiscal deficits and large financial buffers."
He added that Moody's indicated in its statement that "Government has been effective in restructuring Petrotrin."
In his Twitter feed on the same day, Imbert criticised financial "gurus" who claimed Standard and Poor's (S&P) latest economic outlook for TT was bad news. Imbert said: "A person in the ICU has to stabilise first before he can recover. The same logic applies to the economy after the collapse of oil prices in 2014. "We have to walk before we can run."
Last Wednesday, Imbert noted S&P had lowered TT's credit rating by one level from BBB+ to BBB, and had upgraded the outlook from negative to stable. BBB is still an investment grade rating but TT is still two levels into the S&P investment scale grade.
Imbert said the ratings reflected TT's solid level of government financial assets that "mitigate the effect of economic performance cycles on TT's fiscal and external performance." Former government minister Mariano Browne and economist Dr Vaalmiki Arjoon did not share the Prime Minister or Imbert's optimism about the S&P outlook.
8 Hrs Ago Clint Chan Tack
THE police have closed their investigation into the e-mails purported to have been sent among members of the People’s Partnership in 2012 surrounding the controversial Section 34 clause and a conspriacy to kill a journalist.
In a statement made at the weekly police press briefing earlier today, ASP Michael Pierre told reporters there was not enough evidence to prosecute anyone over the matter.
“The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution was not satisfied that a realistic prospect of conviction existed in relation to any identifiable suspect with regard to the offence of misconduct in public office or for any other offences against the laws of TT,” Pierre said.
PM speaks on E-mailgate
Clint Chan Tack
THE Prime Minister will give his response to the closure of the E-mailgate probe at Thursday's post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's.
Contacted on Wednesday for a response, Dr Rowley said he would do so on Thursday after he sees the letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions advising that the investigation be closed.
Asked by reporters about the matter while touring projects in Tobago on Wednesday, Rowley said, "I have not had a chance to read the report but I've read that it is closed."
He added, "When I have a chance to read the DPP's report, I'll be in a position to comment on it." Rowley dismissed calls from Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal and the UNC for him to resign.
"I don't ever listen to Dr Moonilal. Dr Moonilal has his own problems and I don't have one."
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Good news from Moody’s
Clint Chan Tack
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert said international ratings agency Moody's has expressed optimism for TT's economic outlook. In his Twitter feed on Monday, Imbert said, "Moody's today published an in-depth statement that TT's credit profile will benefit from improved prospects from from higher energy production, moderate fiscal deficits and large financial buffers."
He added that Moody's indicated in its statement that "Government has been effective in restructuring Petrotrin."
In his Twitter feed on the same day, Imbert criticised financial "gurus" who claimed Standard and Poor's (S&P) latest economic outlook for TT was bad news. Imbert said: "A person in the ICU has to stabilise first before he can recover. The same logic applies to the economy after the collapse of oil prices in 2014. "We have to walk before we can run."
Last Wednesday, Imbert noted S&P had lowered TT's credit rating by one level from BBB+ to BBB, and had upgraded the outlook from negative to stable. BBB is still an investment grade rating but TT is still two levels into the S&P investment scale grade.
Imbert said the ratings reflected TT's solid level of government financial assets that "mitigate the effect of economic performance cycles on TT's fiscal and external performance." Former government minister Mariano Browne and economist Dr Vaalmiki Arjoon did not share the Prime Minister or Imbert's optimism about the S&P outlook.
8 Hrs Ago Clint Chan Tack
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/07/16/good-news-from-moodys/
sMASH wrote:duane gonna send isreal khan to bantanimo now????
randolphinshan wrote:sMASH wrote:duane gonna send isreal khan to bantanimo now????
You crazy ras ? Zoom is a bigoted hypocritical, racist who has no place on the internet. What has he done for tuner instead of defend the billions stolen by PP Government. Be real nah Smash
randolphinshan wrote:sMASH wrote:duane gonna send isreal khan to bantanimo now????
You crazy ras ? Zoom is a bigoted hypocritical, racist who has no place on the internet. What has he done for tuner instead of defend the billions stolen by PP Government. Be real nah Smash
DAMAGE ALREADY DONE
Cleared of E-mailgate but Kamla cries foul
Yvonne Webb
CLEARED of a criminal conspiracy charge contained in what is now known as the “E-mailgate scandal” five years after the allegations were made, former Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said it tarnished her character and that of her Cabinet ministers and may have lost her the last general elections.
She accused the Rowley government of embarking on a similar witch hunt with the Commission of Enquiry into the land acquisition issue for the San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway and the “spurious charges” against members of her party including former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, former senator Gerald Ramdeen and chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation Glen Ram.
She said she was convinced her party members would be eventually cleared but wondered the time frame in which that would be done.
“Five years, six years, seven years, eight years,” she asked.
She said it took five years for her name and that of her colleagues to be cleared but the damage had been done.
“It took five years to clear my name and that of others. Elections came and went, and they (PNM) rode into elections with those lies on our heads. Our names tarnished because look how long after our names are cleared.”
Hours after the TTPS who sought assistance from the US Department of Justice and FBI, cleared the former prime minister and PP ministers of any wrongdoing, Persad-Bissessar said the statements perpetuated by the current Prime Minister against her and her cabinet ministers, “in his grab for power,” was what caused the PNM to ride the wave of victory, because many people believed them.
At a news conference in San Fernando on Wednesday evening, she called on Dr Rowley to do the honourable thing – resign and call the elections now.
She said the claims he made in Parliament “didn’t just impact here in TT. This made international news around the world."
"He did not care if it was destroying the image of our country. He still does not care. This has really been one of the biggest scandals in the Commonwealth.
"Therefore, the gentleman should do the right thing and resign and call the elections, now.”
She said Rowley's trusted “Gary Sobers of politics” National Security Minister Stuart Young, who was on record as saying that he quit his private practice to get into politics because of the E-mailgate scandal, should also do the honourable thing and put his resignation in place.
She also called on Justice Sebastian Ventour who had been sworn in to head the commission of enquiry (COE) into the highway land acquisition, to declare if he had any bias against her UNC party, recalling that he “resigned in a huff and a puff” from the Integrity Commission when it cleared her and her ministers on the same issue.
She said while Dr Rowley used the cloak of parliamentary privilege to make such damning allegations of a criminal nature against them, the matter had been placed in the hands of her lawyers to see what action could be taken against him.
She said while a court of law might not judge him, “It would be the court of public opinion that would judge a prime minister who would go to the highest court of the land," to make such statements.
Although she said any child could have seen that the e-mails were fake, she expressed regret that it took so long to be resolved.
“Imagine if they could do that to a sitting prime minister and a sitting government what they could do to the ordinary citizens. They are coming to the Parliament and passing all these draconian laws. They say, 'Lock them up! No bail!'"
She recalled former chief secretary of the THA Orville London saying that E-mailgate was a big game-decider and at the end of the day one man or one woman would be left standing.
“Today it is one woman left standing,” she insisted.
She called on her members to be strong and courageous because with two elections due, “They will come up with every trick in the book to trump up every charge they can.”
Referring to Rowley’s promise on a public PNM platform that Petrotrin would not be shut down weeks before that was done, and that the refinery would not be sold, she said, they have consistently lied to the population on almost every issue.
“The problem is that it takes so much time for the truth to come out. UNC people, ordinary citizens, right-thinking citizens would see the Rowley government for what it is, a government of lies. They have no credibility,” she said.
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shake d livin wake d dead wrote:sMASH wrote:looks like i got a new follower. lol
men getting lick down from a side in town...and this is what TTDF doing....not like the CG could do anything land based but the soldiers....plus all that military kakahole thing to guard ah pool
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!Rovin wrote:ahhh boi look we govt building ting for we , ent allyuh say dem do nutten ...
i tort d country eh ha no $$$ cause they forcing parents to buy bleach & other supplies for d schools ...
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/pm-new-h ... hK8QTafxas
PM: New hospital in PoS to be built
Loyse Vincent
The Government will build a new hospital in Port-of-Spain.
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley made the announcement at the sod-turning ceremony for the Roxborough Hospital on Wednesday
“We have just signed off on a multi-story building for 500 beds because the existing multi-storey hospital with 400 beds has been condemned as engineeringly unsound since 2009,” Rowley said.
He said there are five healthcare facilities under construction.
“The Couva Hospital will be opened in this month of July, we will begin to see them offer services then and in September, teaching will begin,” he said.
He also gave an update on the Point Fortin and Arima projects.
“The Point Fortin Hospital is on the verge of completion and is being outfitted and very soon the people of Point Fortin will have a hospital. Pretty soon after that, the hospital at Arima will be completed as well.”
He said another sod-turning ceremony will soon take place for the Sangre Grande hospital.
Though the new Roxborough Hospital is projected to be smaller, it will be a fully functional medical facility, Dr Rowley said.
The estimated cost of the Roxborough project is $60 million and it is expected to be completed in two years.
Meanwhile, addressing Government’s plans to finance major projects, Rowley said the Revenue Authority will improve collection methods resulting in increased revenue.
“A Revenue Authority which is structured and facilitated and populated with the skills and authority to go there and improve on a tax collection so that we don’t see 40 per cent of what is owed to the exchequer outside,” he said.
“The experts tell us that 40 per cent of tax is not being collected...in some instances ... the Board of Inland Revenue has facilitated the loss of revenue,” the PM added.
Referring to non-collection of the Property Tax since 2010, the PM said revenues totalling more than “four hundred million dollars” have been lost since then.
“We cannot have it both ways we cannot expect to have service delivery and at the same time have people liable for taxes and not paying taxes,” the PM said.
He said the Government will go ahead with its development projects and expects more taxes to be collected to finance them.
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