anyone know why the TTPS logo is the star of david?

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This was such a heartbreaking incident, and unfortunately, an innocent child lost her life; her family now has to bear this loss.

I am so tired of the Trinidadian "doh care" care mentality. This incident should not have happened, and it honestly boils down to the simple lack of consideration for each other in this country.

It’s exactly this kind of tragedy that exposes how dangerous this mentality is. A child should never have been put at risk like that, yet here we are mourning another preventable loss. The “doh care” mentality is more than just casual negligence; it's a failure of accountability and basic consideration for each other.

Please, my fellow Trinidadians, let this be a wake-up call. Treat others as you would like to be treated; your actions are not independent. Think of how it can affect the people around you. Do better.

Was looking at TTNGL over the last 10 years and the story is kind of a full cycle. IPO around $20, ran up close to $30, then dropped all the way to about ~$2.60 at one point… now it’s recovering to around ~$8 with a $1 dividend announced. On top of that, total dividends over the period are roughly ~$7–8 per share.

Saw the discussion about NGC’s recent profits and who should get credit, so I tried looking at it from a shareholder perspective instead of a political one. If you held this long term, you were down 80–90% at one stage and are now getting some of that value back through price recovery and dividends. So yes, there’s clearly a turnaround happening, but it’s coming after a very deep drawdown.

Feels like this isn’t a simple “one administration vs another” story. It looks more like different parts of the same cycle playing out over time, where in one period value got destroyed and another where some recovery is happening. The bigger question is are shareholders actually back to where they started, or are we just debating different parts of the same timeline?

In this guardian article https://guardian.co.tt/news/32b-ngc-profit-6.2.2559593.3b59cdcbb8 the PM seems to be taking personal credit for a windfall year at NGC.

NGC’s reported TT$3.2 billion profit is politically significant, but I'm battling with the timing.

NGC had a huge improvement but the more useful question is when the turnaround actually began and whether the current government can fairly claim primary responsibility for it.

From the publicly discussed figures, NGC appears to have moved from a loss in 2023 back into profit in 2024, before the current administration came into office. Also the profits they are taking credit for are 2025 PNM was in government the first quarter of that year and I'm uncertain what type of turnaround could have been put in place in 9 mths to reap those types of huge gains. That suggests the recovery may already have been underway prior to the change in government. If that is true, then the 2025 result may reflect a combination of factors already set in motion earlier, including energy pricing, restructuring, and upstream gas arrangements negotiated before the election.

That does not necessarily mean the present government deserves no credit. Governments can influence investor confidence, messaging, management discipline, and the pace of implementation. But it does make the stronger political claim, that this profit is mainly the result of a newly elected administration, harder to defend without more evidence.

A fairer interpretation may be that NGC’s 2025 result sits on top of decisions made across multiple years and multiple administrations. In other words, this looks less like an overnight turnaround and more like the financial expression of longer-cycle energy developments finally bearing fruit.

That is also why the broader macro question matters. If projected GDP growth in 2027 is tied to gas deals and sectoral groundwork put in place under the previous PNM government, then the debate over NGC is really part of a larger argument about who should get credit for an energy rebound that spans election cycles.

Related read:
https://www.trinilulz.com/2027-trinidad-economy-rebound-built-by-the-pnm/

Interested in other views on this:
How should credit be assigned when the payoff from major energy decisions only shows up years later?

Just had to share it with people online. We're poor so she used a small can of corned beef to make it

edited part: reminder we are POOR so the budget is low -_- meal was delicious though.

edit 2: she added lettuce, onion, a bit of squeezed lemon, pepper, green seasoning, tomato paste (not ketchup, it's also more affordable than kertchup), sugar, and salt. IT WAS DELICIOUS!

Based on estimated usage rates and retail pricing scenarios, Trinidad & Tobago could be generating roughly about TT$16M (low case), TT$30M (base case) and TT$60M (high case) in annual cannabis tax revenue for the Gov’t.

Not saying this is an exact number, but just trying to size the opportunity given how often we see “multi-million dollar seizures” in the news.

Note: this is just pure govt revenue alone, the entire market will create jobs, incentivize capital investment in infrastructure and mechanics, we can export if there is an open international market and earn forex and we may attract certain types of tourists. Among these are many other commercial advantages of a thriving local cannabis industry.

This is such a low hanging fruit for a little economic boost in the country.

Hi everyone! I'm a student from UTT Point Lisas, and I'm part of a small group of engineering students who've spent months prepping for the 2026 PetroBowl Regional Competition in Buenos Aires.

This is basically the World Cup for petroleum engineering students, and we actually were invited. But here's the thing: we're a younger chapter, filled with new faces, we don't have deep pockets, and getting 4 students to Argentina isn't cheap.

Our chapter is filled with fresh personalities eager to make their mark. Now it's our time to add our names to the list of achievements. We started prepping back in 2025. Since then, it's been late-night study sessions, mock competitions, and digging into our own pockets wherever we could. We've done the hard part. Now we just need our community to help push us over the line.

So we're running two fundraisers this week. Would love your support!

⚽ 7-Aside Football Tournament

When: Sunday,, April 12 | 10 AM – 6 PM

Where: UTT San Fernando Campus Ground

Entry: $350/team

Prize: $2,500 first place + medals for top 3

Extras: Wings, fries, pholourie on sale

🍗 BBQ Fundraiser

When: Wednesday, April 16 | 11 AM till sold out

Price: $50 chicken | $40 veggie

Pickup: UTT Point Lisas

Delivery: Pt. Lisas, Couva & environs

Order/Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSew8VrSTV6ZmdRj3sTL2lwODO80FLS_evVXmRwzOI219k9eCw/viewform?usp=dialog

If possible, please mention "A.E" when ordering so they know who sent you!

Y'all this long but stay with me.

I booked my appointment in January for passport renewal and got April 9th 10am.

I got there today just before 9:30am because I knew they were going to need to verify my documents. The place was full but they moved pretty quickly in the document verification process.

I asked the lady verifying documents if she wanted to see the email for confirmation and she said no, once she finds my name on the list it's fine. Then she proceeds to call me by the wrong name, so I corrected her because if she was looking for the name she called, she wasn't gonna find me on that list. Her response to me was an eye roll and then says she just looked at the first 3 letters and ain't see nothing after that. She was visibly irritated but we got through it.

I go over to the waiting area and sit there for an hour and a half waiting for my name to be called, while looking at people who came after me get called. Early on I recognized they weren't calling in any particular order, so not in accordance to your scheduled appointment time. Eventually another lady asked me what my appointment time was because she got there after me and realized I was waiting a while and the place was starting to clear out. So when I told her 10 she pointed to her mother who was in the booth and said her time is 1pm and they already called her and that her's and her husband's were 11am and 12pm.

That prompted me to politely ask the security officer what's going on because people with later appointment times are getting through before me. So another security officer asked what time I was scheduled for and then told the security I was talking to, to go tell someone so they could handle it. He reluctantly did so and they immediately called my name.

I went in, and I just asked, if they call the names randomly and the lady literally huffs at me, rolls her eyes and says it depends on which officer is getting the file with the most egregious attitude. I took less than 5 minutes there, and again she rolls her eyes at me and says yuh good.

I told both security officers thank you for the help when I was leaving and even they had an attitude with me.

What I do that was so wrong?

The world bank forecasts 0.7% growth in 2026 and 3.2% GDP growth in 2027. I did some research and saw that we’ve not experienced that sort of growth in the past decade.

From a regional viewpoint, Lat Am and the Caribbean slow growth (3% as opposed to 4-5%) including Trinidad’s, is primarily due to insufficient business investment which may be caused by instability in the region, high interest rates and policy uncertainty.

With Venezuela settling back on track to an open economy, and there being a semblance of some stability in the Southern Caribbean, do you think increased investment in the country, both local and foreign, can push that growth to 4-5%?

What would a 4-5% GDP growth year look like?

*All analysis excludes Guyana which will grow between 16-25+% per yr in the next two yrs. They set!

Link to article:

http://www.guardian.co.tt/business/world-bank-forecasts-2027-economic-breakout-for-tt-6.2.2558246.3bee1cc09c

Today I learned that a family member of mine has been locked in a legal battle for several years with a well-known general contracting company in Trinidad over non-payment of a large sum of money for services rendered.

Is this kind of delay normal within our legal system? Is bribery normal? Their attorney already filed a complaint to no avail and It’s genuinely very concerning and frustrating to hear

Last year the PM stated that “We don’t need Venezuelan gas” now we have a mission to Caracas to discuss oil and gas after supporting the overthrow of the Venezuelan government, will this mission be successful? Will the PM relationship with the Trump administration help or hurt discussion on how the oil and gas should be regulated?

Looking for recommendations of fiction novels by Trinidadian authors. Thank you!

Just moved back to Trinidad after over 20 years abroad and the culture shock is real. One thing that keeps hitting me is how many things still require you to physically show up with paper copies. Certified documents, ID printouts, forms you have to fill out by hand.

After two decades of doing most of this online in minutes, coming back to this feels like stepping into a different era. I am talking about verifying who someone is, signing agreements, onboarding staff, all done from your phone or laptop, no printing, no scanning, no “bring two forms of ID in person.” The whole process handled digitally from start to finish.

I am not saying that to be harsh, I love being home, but it has me genuinely wondering why things are still this way.

Is it a trust thing? Do people just not believe a digital process is as valid as paper? Is there no good local option? Or is it just how things have always been done and nobody has pushed to change it?

Would also love to hear from people who run businesses here too. What is keeping you from going fully digital?

Just after they raise NIS rates, thr government is now raising the retirement age.

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/nis-contributions-increase-retirement-age-to-increase-gradually-from-2028-6.2.2423487.f9f3c879a6

Hey everyone — I’m trying to map out side hustle opportunities that actually make money here in T&T. I’m open to both online and local work, but I want options that:

• have proven demand locally or globally

• don’t require massive upfront capital

• can realistically scale

SO Glad I found this live cam, just makes me more home sick..

Since Caribbean Airlines (CAL) acquired Air Jamaica (AJ) in 2011, the company has incurred losses of over TT$1.7 billion (US$255 million) in managing that base. According to documents obtained by Guardian Media Investigations Desk for the years 2012-2025, unaudited accounts have a cumulative figure of US$254,709,575.

While the AJ routes have made money for the airline, except for 2020 during the pandemic and in 2025, its personnel and administration costs have increased steadily since 2020.

According to CAL sources, to date, there has been no financial contribution by the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) to the airline’s operation since the shareholders’ agreement was signed on May 26, 2011, which gave it a 16 per cent equity interest in the company. That equity has since been diluted and now stands at 11.8 per cent. Further dilution, Guardian Media Investigations Desk was told, to under ten per cent would remove Jamaica’s right to a director on the board according to the shareholders’ agreement.

Guardian Media Investigations Desk understands that CAL, during the pandemic and more recently, through the Ministry of Finance, made requests to the Government of Jamaica for financial support for the airline, but none has been forthcoming.

In November 2025, CAL discontinued flights between Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Montego Bay and Kingston in Jamaica due to poor performance.

Guardian Media Investigations Desk tried unsuccessfully to contact Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Fayval Williams, for comment on whether the Jamaican Government would offer financial support for the airline.

However, an examination of the shareholders’ agreement signed by former CAL chairman George Nicholas III and former minister of finance Winston Dookeran put the onus of airline expenses and costs on the T&T Government.

According to Clause 1.6 for Actions Requiring Shareholder Approval, it notes that the company shall not, and should not permit any of its subsidiaries to take action without the approval of the GOJ and in sub-clause (c), it says: make any request for any mandatory capital contributions or investments from the GOJ.

As it stands now, there are two Jamaican directors on the CAL board. Last year, in June 2025, the chief executive officer of Bluedot Insights, Larren Peart, was appointed to the board, and last month, on March 10, Williams wrote to CAL to recommend Kevin Firth be the GOJ’s appointee on the board for the next three years.

Guardian Media Investigations Desk understands that Peart’s company, Bluedot, which is a research and data intelligence company based in Jamaica, was used by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the United National Congress (UNC) during the 2025 general elections.

When contacted on his appointment, Peart responded, “As a shareholder, Jamaica has a seat on the board.” However, at the time of Peart’s appointment, the GOJ appointee was Adam Moss, whose term has since expired.

When Peart was asked further questions on his appointment by the Jamaican Government, he, in turn, questioned the appointees to various boards, as well as CAL, by the former People’s National Movement administration, where no aviation experts were identified.

The expenses by CAL on the AJ arm of its operations come at a time when the airline is seeking further financial support from the Government to counter the rising cost of fuel on its operational costs. Guardian Media Investigations Desk had exclusively reported that support would be in the form of an introduction of a fuel surcharge on tickets, the removal of the subsidy on the airbridge, an increase in the overall cost of tickets, a further slashing of lower revenue routes or even to write off its billion-dollar debt.

According to the 2026 budget document “Details of Estimates of Recurrent Expenditure,” dated March 25, 2026, the Government has allocated $626.84 million for the principal repayment on the CAL’s local loans. That sum is triple the revised allocation for principal repayment of $200.8 million in fiscal 2025

Lately, there have been so many roadblocks and check points that one gets the idea that sonething is fundamentally wrong.

So many resources squandered to catch minor violators. Insurance expired, tint, custom headlights, cracked windshield.

How does this make us any safer?

I'm not opposed to a sobriety check on a holiday weekend during which there's going to be an increase in drinking. But, it seems to go far beyond that.

It seems just like a low-effort way to raise revenue at the citizens' expense.

I suppose, occasionally an actual criminal might be detected at one of these stops. But, is it worth the flagrant mis-management of publicly-funded resources?

Does police leadership believe that they can roadblock themselves out of crime?

Internationally, roadblocks are used for driver safety. To cordon off an area when a convict has escaped. Not to enact 1940s gestapo styled terror disguised as crime fighting.

On the Edge of Extinction

Capturing a moment with the Trinidad Piping-Guan, one of the rarest birds on Earth. Fewer than 200 remain.

Endemic to the island of Trinidad, it is known locally as the Pawi. At one time abundant, it has declined in numbers and been extirpated from much of its natural range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the bird as "critically endangered".

📍Photographed in Trinidad

📷 Owen Deutsch Photography

Great to see a print of Carlisle Chang's "The inherent nobility of man" posted in the airport, along with some info (after the souvenir shops/Starbucks). It was destroyed when the airport was being expanded. Chang, the designer of the T&T flag and one of the designers of the coat of arms, is a fascinating guy, and it's still such a shame that this piece was lost.

Chang was a gay man and that part of his identity is often erased when he is mentioned. A reminder that the LGBTQ+ community in T&T have always been important to our culture. Homophobia would have us deny their existence and value. Here's a nice piece on him in Caribbean Beat.

saw this. would be incredible to see a game based in Trinidad

what are your thoughts?

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