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Why has NGC failed to disclose gas contracts?
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Earlier this month, the Government of Guyana reiterated that a “legal consideration” was preventing it from providing the full disclosure of the contract it signed with the US oil giant, ExxonMobil.
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Will forex shortages trigger higher inflation?
Thursday, June 8, 2017
In his May 10 mid-year budget review, Finance Minister Colm Imbert made the following important observation about the current inflation rate in T&T: “It is also noteworthy that notwithstanding the
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Will Imbert follow Sinckler in raising taxes...again?
Thursday, June 1, 2017
On Tuesday afternoon, the Barbadian Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler, presented the island’s 2017 budget to the Barbados House of Assembly.
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Is cutting transfers mandatory?
Thursday, May 25, 2017
The commentaries in this space last week and the week before achieved their aim in starting a national dialogue about the standard of living in this country and the extent to which government's i
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Have governments misled citizens on subsidies?
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Last week, I argued that administrations in the 15 years between 2000 and 2015 distributed a significant amount of wealth to the population, which contributed to a huge rise in the average standard of
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Has T&T’s wealth been distributed equitably?
Thursday, May 11, 2017
In the last few weeks, I have intervened in several discussions in which people have complained about the excessive burden of taxation that the current administration has imposed on the population, as
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Boundless faith in his destiny
Thursday, May 4, 2017
On February 5, 2004, there was a commentary in this space headlined, Blessed are our billionaires, which is appropriate to reference given the passing of Dr Anthony N Sabga on Wednesday morning.
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What of Mr Duprey’s rights?
Thursday, April 27, 2017
On Sunday, I wrote an email to disclosure activist, commentator and property valuator Afra Raymond taking issue with some comments he made in Sunday Guardian and on CNC3 News on Saturday night that it
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T&T bars DeNovo gas sales to MHTL
Thursday, April 20, 2017
The Government has taken a policy decision that the state-owned National Gas Company should be the aggregator of natural gas in T&T, meaning NGC would buy the gas output of upstream producers and
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What do Angelin and Galicia say about the PNM Cabinet?
Thursday, April 20, 2017
For the month of April, the two stories referenced in the headline of this commentary have dominated the news cycle in T&T, with both of them generating a great deal of hand-wringing on social med
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