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People in Trinidad live a cartoon life and are not serious about their future. When they can no longer bare it, they look to migrate rather than shaping their own country.bluefete wrote:I feel Kickstart right on this one.
Is the UNC important or relevant at this time? After all the joyous celebration after the privy council ruling, I'd hate to see the real winner is the lawyers..Kickstart wrote:People in Trinidad live a cartoon life and are not serious about their future. When they can no longer bare it, they look to migrate rather than shaping their own country.bluefete wrote:I feel Kickstart right on this one.
The population is not serious, until then its a PNM Victory
Kickstart wrote:PNM Victory at local elections
You and others just sit there and never show your objections to the PNM. Instead, you divert attention to the UNC and nit pick.wing wrote:Is the UNC important or relevant at this time? After all the joyous celebration after the privy council ruling, I'd hate to see the real winner is the lawyers..Kickstart wrote:People in Trinidad live a cartoon life and are not serious about their future. When they can no longer bare it, they look to migrate rather than shaping their own country.bluefete wrote:I feel Kickstart right on this one.
The population is not serious, until then its a PNM Victory
Tears of joy? Or despair?paid_influencer wrote:come election night, we know wing will be sitting there with tears in his eyes and a baliser in his hand
maj. tom wrote:PNM supporters really feeling joy since 2015 in this country?
Well I suppose PNM really did save the Treasury from Kamla. And they fixed that UNC lawyers only taking state money problem....
ruffneck_12 wrote:maj. tom wrote:PNM supporters really feeling joy since 2015 in this country?
Well I suppose PNM really did save the Treasury from Kamla. And they fixed that UNC lawyers only taking state money problem....
to be fair, both parties does teef
But the yellow people does still take care of the whole country
The red people does just help out their people only.
Rovin wrote:according to poo nm ppl their party never teef nothin, dem is saints & only unc ppl does teef out d treasury
all d stats here for d last LGE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Trin ... _elections
it was a tie but if i had to guess i wud say d results will be about d same but poo nm always has d edge to win ...
Why is there such nasty racism in Trinidad? A rhetorical question, to be sure. But for the uninitiated, and those who do not live here, the more direct answer is this:
Among the political parties in Trinidad, only the United National Congress believes they should pass laws to govern. Only the UNC believes they should decide how we earn and spend our money. Only the UNC stands in the way of laws aimed at curbing and correcting errant behaviour.
Only the UNC opposes any form of national progress—moving ALL PEOPLE forward, rather than a few—especially infrastructural, where they have figured the least prominently in the last three decades in the nation’s development, lateral movements only, never forward steps.
The lone area of national development where the UNC has stood out consistently is in the greed, kickbacks, corruption, theft and waste in the awarding and distribution of contracts they gave out for infrastructural development, the few times they deemed such development necessary, as well as the legal briefs handed out in the Judiciary.
Only the UNC has (the most) members of their party before the courts for misbehaviour in public office, corruption, perversion of one form or another. Only the UNC has supporters, and leaders of religious groups, who are the most hateful, ugly, bitter and downright idiotic when it comes to race relations. No other political party.
https://trinidadexpress.com/opinion/let ... ium=social
Dizzy28 wrote:ruffneck_12 wrote:maj. tom wrote:PNM supporters really feeling joy since 2015 in this country?
Well I suppose PNM really did save the Treasury from Kamla. And they fixed that UNC lawyers only taking state money problem....
to be fair, both parties does teef
But the yellow people does still take care of the whole country
The red people does just help out their people only.
aAren't we fed up of "both ah them does theif"??
DMan7 wrote:As I've said before UNC ain't winning nothing. PNM taking 2025 and 2030 too. The UNC has too much stigma associated with it, The party needs to be disbanded and a new party without any of the old political heads needs to take its place.
It's also just sad to see people have some sliver of hope that they could win something but that's living in fantasy land.
Why Some Countries Find It Hard to Move Away From Fossil Fuels
Trinidad and Tobago is the No. 2 exporter of liquefied natural gas in the Americas. Its output has been falling, but it remains committed to fossil fuels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/business/energy-environment/trinidad-tobago-gas-oil.html
If you hit the NY Times paywall: https://archive.ph/8P5rg
But with its oil and gas fields aging, oil production has fallen to 58,000 barrels a day, from 230,000 barrels a day at its peak in 1978. The country’s only oil refinery was shut four years ago. Gas production has declined 40 percent since 2010, forcing the country to close one of its four export terminals for liquefied natural gas and three of its 18 petrochemical plants.
...The oil and gas business “is the basis for our middle class,” said Ainka Granderson, an environmental scientist at the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, a research organization in San Juan, a city on the main island. “Oil and gas was once the nation’s spine, but it’s now the crutch that props us up.”
That crutch is becoming increasingly rickety.
Climate Change Brings Warmer, Wetter Weather to Trinidad
Even as the leaders of Trinidad and Tobago double down on fossil fuels, climate change is bringing more extreme weather to the island nation.
The island nation’s climate has historically been highly variable. Climate change has made it more so. And Trinidad’s average temperature has risen two and half times above the global average from 1946 to 2019, according to the government report to the U.N. Over the past four decades, heavy rain that last multiple days has also been more frequent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/business/energy-environment/trinidad-tobago-climate-change.html
https://archive.ph/m59XO
toyolink wrote:The various political preferences as noted in this thread all seem to acknowledge that the 2 the major political parties demonstrate major flaws.
What this may suggest is that the elector may well overtime have to choose the party which would best take care of bread and butter issues and may be easier to get to respond to the financial pain citizens are faced with on a day to day basis.
Things like macro development, fiscal strategic and crime prevention planning although critical may just not drive where citizens put their inked finger.
Both of them will continue to vote PNMpaid_influencer wrote:toyolink wrote:The various political preferences as noted in this thread all seem to acknowledge that the 2 the major political parties demonstrate major flaws.
What this may suggest is that the elector may well overtime have to choose the party which would best take care of bread and butter issues and may be easier to get to respond to the financial pain citizens are faced with on a day to day basis.
Things like macro development, fiscal strategic and crime prevention planning although critical may just not drive where citizens put their inked finger.
THE incoming chief executive officer (CEO) of State-owned Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd (Heritage) Erik Keskula will receive a lucrative package, including a monthly base salary of $180,000.
This information was provided by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley at the Parliament sitting yesterday in response to a question from the Opposition.
Keskula’s monthly base salary is $30,000 more than his predecessor, Arlene Chow, made in the position.
On May 23, Heritage’s chairman, Michael Quamina, SC, and the board announced that Erik Keskula had been selected as the CEO of the company.
Keskula will serve as the CEO-designate for the period June 1 to June 13 and will assume full responsibility when Chow retires from the company on June 13.
Heritage stated that Keskula’s selection followed a rigorous recruitment process which considered candidates from Trinidad and Tobago and the international oil and gas industry.
The Prime Minister listed the compensation package for Keskula:
—cash compensation: base salary- $180,000 monthly
—relocation allowance of seven per cent - $12,600
—completion bonus of $180,000 payable at the end of the six-month probation
—value of housing up to US$5,000 a month
—a company vehicle maintained by Heritage with a driver during the probationary period and subsequent to that a vehicle purchased up to the value of $700,000
—utilities to be funded by the Company
—return airfare to his home company at the end (for employee and spouse)
—international medical insurance for employee, spouse and two dependants
—international life insurance for the employee only
—20 working days per annum for vacation
—an annual bonus arrangement
Opposition MP Rudranath Indarsingh asked the Prime Minister how much money Heritage has set aside to invest in the repair and maintenance of the company’s network of pipelines as he noted the company recently declared an after-tax profit of over a billion dollars.
He pointed out environmental disasters involving oil spills and leaks have been associated with Heritage and have impacted communities.
Rowley said he was pleased to note that Indarsingh had “finally acknowledged” that the restructuring of Petrotrin had transformed an entity which was losing billions of dollars to one that is now in a position to declare after-tax profit of approximately $1 billion after paying royalties of $2 billion.
He said if Indarsingh’s “epiphany” continues he expects that it will be acknowledged that Heritage is also servicing the US$850 million debt that the Finance Minister could not service.
Heritage, he said, is dealing with aged infrastructure which they inherited.
Rowley said the company has a programme of assessing the quality of its infrastructure which is aged and some of it “even dangerous” and has recently spent $9 million in an inspection programme.
He said with respect to spending money to change certain aspects of the pipeline infrastructure, Heritage is spending approximately $15 million a year.
Rowley noted this is a small amount for an oil company, but given where the company has come from and is going, it will increase as Heritage continues to strengthen its infrastructure.
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