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Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery read more…

Grounded!
May 13th 2012 11:56 AMCAL unable to pay for planes THE financial crisis facing Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) has forced the company to put on hold the delivery of seven ATR72-600 aircraft as efforts are being made to secure a US$l00 million (TT$630 million) loan to pay off the French manufacturer. In wake of read more…

Heading for a crash
May 11th 2012 7:15 PMWE have noted on several occasions in this space, the dangerous approach adopted by the People’s Partnership administration in the management of the billion dollar investment that is Caribbean Airlines Limited. In sounding a warning on August 11 last year, we pointed out that although a new company had been read more…

Common nonsense
April 27th 2012 12:12 PMDR. KARL CASE, a dear friend and one of the most eminent economists in the United States, has always pointed out to me that part of the greatness of the United States lies in innovative scientific research that takes place at its MITs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and its California read more…

CALamity
April 13th 2012 12:00 PMNo CEO at national airline, new chairman is CEPEP contractor RABINDRA MOONAN, the man appointed last weekend as the chairman of Caribbean Airlines, overseeing a billion-dollar budget, is a CEPEP contractor with no significant executive management experience, whose biggest operation has been the contract awarded since the PP came to read more…





