Criminals rush to clean dirty money Mark Bassant Money launderers, drug traffickers, gangsters and other underworld figures are attempting to exchange their “dirty money” with the assistance of legitimate businessmen by offering them a fee to do the transaction. This illi...
FRUSTRATION Rush at banks to change $100 notes Marlene Augustine Frustration was the order of the day on Tuesday as hundreds of people filled several commercial banks in Port of Spain waiting, some for hours, to exchange their old $100 bills for the new polymer notes. The Central Bank has said afte...
Muslims can take $100 notes to Central Bank No change to Dec 31 deadline Sean Douglas MUSLIMS who have no bank accounts can exchange their old $100 banknotes at the Central Bank before they become void at year-end, Finance Minister Colm Imbert told the Senate on Tuesday. He was replying to an urgen...
Imbert awaiting legal tender advice Businesses refusing to accept old $100 notes Carla Bridglal Finance Minister Colm Imbert expected to have an answer late on Tuesday about whether or not it is legal or illegal for businesses to refuse to accept old $100 notes. Imbert told the Senate he was awaiti...
AG: Don’t fight over old $100 notes Sean Douglas ATTORNEY General Faris Al-Rawi urged citizens not to squabble with businesses who refuse to take the existing $100 note in the run-up to their year-end voiding but rather to simply deposit the bills in their bank accounts and pay by credit or debit c...
Yuh see what does happen when dem fellas rush to open t'ing before elections? Sinanan & Co. cannot say they were not warned...:| Traffic nightmare at Mosquito Creek Yvonne Webb https://newsday.co.tt/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2609048-1024x683.jpg A truck stalled along South trunk Road on Mosquit...
The results of the LGE showed that nothing's for certain but the PNM probably has the edge for the GE because of the demographic makeup of the constituencies. Thing is: would their winning again be such a bad thing? A storm is coming. The PNM has a documented history of messing things up and then le...
Hmmph...all this time I thought Dr. Rowley was a man of honesty and integrity...at least that's one of the reasons the people who voted for him used to justify their decision...:| Smith investigator speaks out Renuka Singh Shameful, reprehensible, and misogynistic! Those are just three of th...
Stuarty eh have no daughter...:| Young: Not my relative Carla Bridglal National Security Minister Stuart Young, in a statement to media today, denied that any relative of his was arrested during a major drug bust in Westmoorings this morning. "It has come to my attention that it was being sugge...
Ok well according to that BATT release small fry like me eh hadda worry. Just deposit cash on hand into yuh account and withdraw the new notes. Yuh eh hadda worry about lining up either as the ATMs can be used for cash deposits though there's a $ 2000 - $ 2500 limit per envelope depending on the ban...
They thought no one would vote fuh "the corrupt, thieving UNC" and believed they could get away with neglecting the districts as they have done in other "secure" PNM areas (Diego Martin, Port of Spain, Point Fortin etc). But Sando West (and its districts) still marginal. If they ...
RBC has a service charge for OTC cash transactions. Since the Government is forcing people to make this change ah wonder if they will be absorbing this (and similar) charges?...:| No A bank is a private affair they can change what they want Lagniappe fuh dem forkers then. Grate is the Pee oN deM...:|
RBC has a service charge for OTC cash transactions. Since the Government is forcing people to make this change ah wonder if they will be absorbing this (and similar) charges?...
Gas dilemma continues: Unipet wants it’s own license to import fuel Renuka Singh Privately owned Unipet wants it’s own fuel importation license, so it can by-pass the State-run Paria Fuel Trading Company. In a 38-page signed affidavit received by Guardian Media, Unipet’s chief exec...
"Slim" Shady's back. 100% certain if she goes up she'll win...:| If the people want me, I’ll serve Marlene on 2020 general election run Ryan Hamilton-Davis Port of Spain South MP Marlene McDonald said if her constituents still want her, she will put her name forward to the PNM to contest t...
‘Money laundering could spike ’ Mariano Browne on $100 makeover Kalifa Sarah Clyne Former minister in the Ministry of Finance, Mariano Browne, believes Government’s timing to introduce the new polymer $100 bill to could be inconvenient on one hand or lead to a spike in money laundering, on the othe...
ALL OUT ATTACK Unipet: Govt using strong-arm monopoly tactics Jada Loutoo AN all out attack! This is what independent fuel retailer Unipet is claiming as it accused state-owned Paria Fuel Ltd of using its monopoly in the petroleum marketing sector, to inflict more punishment and hardship on it, alt...
Yes, this is what San Fernando really needs at this point in time: another clock. "According to Regrello, Williams offered to erect and maintain a clock in San Fernando approximately one month ago. he city mayor accepted and used the past couple weeks to source an ideal location." Not sure...
BoS...one day three representatives showed up to "investigate" two 8-port network switches that were contained in a shipment with the company's goods. Cannot say how they found out about them but they did. Anyways, they looked at them, asked what they were for and then declared those thing...