Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall Sovereign Wealth Fund: it has a nice sounding comforting ring to it.  It should be noticed right away that this is not a secret Swiss fund, or concealed offshore business, but a Sovereign fund.  It is one that is for the 29people, housing the nation’s deposits, harnessing its future.  It is a fund ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2016, 17:59 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese policeman has been admitted to a hospital Brazilian hospital in a serious condition and another treated and sent away after they intervened in an altercation outside a night club in Lethem during the early hours of Sunday morning. Constables Chichester and Samuels were rushed to the Lethem ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2016, 15:21 by Denis Chabrol Guyana will not be able to transship honey exports through Trinidad and Tobago any time soon because the twin-island Caribbean nation does not know when it will amend its almost 70-year old law. Trinidad and Tobago’s Chief Veterinary Officer, Richard Kangaloo said his country was sticking by the law ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2016, 14:29 by Denis Chabrol The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) has borrowed and modified a Puerto Rico protocol to remove large amounts sargassum seaweed that has been retarding the movement of fishing vessels and chasing away some fish species from otherwise heavily populated fishing grounds. Executive Director of CRFM, Milton Haughton said the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2016, 13:13 by Denis Chabrol By Ivan Cairo GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – A trade dispute to allow Surinamese duck meat to enter the market in Trinidad and Tobago could be resolved as soon as the Trinidad government amend its Animal Act, a Trinidad official told the Caricom Council for Trade and Economic Development ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2016, 2:43 by Denis Chabrol Police and fire fighters believe the early Sunday morning blaze that gutted a section of a building on Cummings Street two doors north of Regent Street was the work of an arsonist. “We are working on that theory (arson) because of what we saw. There is evidence of some ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2016, 1:02 by Denis Chabrol Fire  early Sunday morning gutted a section of a building on Cummings Street, just off Regent Street. The building is owned by former Guyana Defence Force officer, Oliver Hinckson. While the blaze was brought under control and confined to that building, smoke was still billowing. ‘A’ Division Commander, Assistant ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 October 2016, 23:47 by Denis Chabrol TRINIDAD NEWSDAY.- EDASCO Ltd officials moved the truck and washed away the blood of their dead employee before police arrived on the scene after one of its company’s gas transporting trucks exploded on its Longdenville Road premises. According to police, EDASCO officials told them that the worker, identified only by ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 October 2016, 23:37 by Denis Chabrol TRINIDAD EXPRESS.- Police exercises in the Port of Spain Division and Central Division on Thursday have resulted in the arrest of 26 persons. The exercises were supervised by Senior Supt Hodge-Griffith and Senior Supt Boxill, with assistance from Supt Corbette, ASP Persad, ASP Sooker, Sgt Jodhan, Sgt Persad, Sgt Mohammed, ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall It is a strange world of futures, swaps, hedges, currencies, spot prices, tankers, and an array of terms that is a language of its own, and alien to the layman.  It is also a world of stupendous booms, and the bottom falling out of once soaring prices, thus bringing nations to their knees. ...