The Pointe-a-Pierre oil refinery complex, Trinidad - Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA
An Italian engineering firm announced a US$50 million refinery study before any government did. The company paying for it is brand new. Nobody will say who is financing it.
Read the analysisThe Finance Minister used the word 'will' 296 times in the budget. Six months later, we check the receipts.
Read the analysisThe March deadline has passed. The Health Minister says UDeCOTT's 90% claim doesn't match what he saw. The question nobody is asking: who will staff 540 new beds?
Read the analysisBetween February 1 and March 2, the country had a brief window without a State of Emergency. The crime data from that month tells a story the government does not want to discuss.
Read the analysisUS troops are gone. The radar is dismantled. The road was never finished. And the government's story changed four times.
Read the analysisThe Finance Minister used the word 'will' 296 times in the budget. Six months later, we check the receipts.
Read the analysisThe March deadline has passed. The Health Minister says UDeCOTT's 90% claim doesn't match what he saw. The question nobody is asking: who will staff 540 new beds?
Read the analysisBetween February 1 and March 2, the country had a brief window without a State of Emergency. The crime data from that month tells a story the government does not want to discuss.
Read the analysisThe Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex had 30 patients in A&E and zero nurses on duty. This is not a one-night staffing glitch. It is a system in collapse.
Read the analysisTrinidad and Tobago lost one of three daily newspapers. The same month, Guyana lost one too. The Caribbean media landscape is shrinking at the worst possible time.
Read the analysisThe PM says CARICOM has been failing for 52 years. The country is applying for Mercosur membership. Nobody in Trinidad and Tobago is debating what either move means.
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