MARCH 8 2020 CORRECTION: The ‘Murder Map,’ Tables and Charts showing location data have been corrected. The correction is based on a review of my data by the GIS Society of Trinidad and Tobago (to which I am grateful for). Going forward, GISSTT will validate/confirm if the Addresses collected from media reports – which remain…
Read More Trinidad Murder Statistics January 2020This is the third article in a series on Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in the Caribbean. The first article looked at the number of KFC stores across the Caribbean while the second looked at countries with the most KFC stores per 100,000 people. In this article, I want to answer the following question: What is…
Read More KFC Zinger Prices across the CaribbeanFive Takeaways from the 2019 Trinidad & Tobago Budget 1. Revenue and Expenditure Budget for 2019 at $47.7Bn TTD and $51.7Bn TTD respectively. 2. Super Gasoline price increase from $3.97 TTD to $4.97 TTD per llitre. 3. Economy forecast to grow by 1.9% in 2019. 4. Government will spend $2.6Bn TTD in severance packages for…
Read More Five Takeaways From Trinidad & Tobago Budget 2019Press Release No. 18/356 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 25, 2018 IMF Executive Board Concludes 2018 Article IV Consultation with Trinidad and Tobago On August 31, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation [1] with Trinidad and Tobago and considered and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting. [2] Executive Board Assessment…
Read More IMF PR – Trinidad and Tobago: IMF Executive Board Concludes the 2018 Article IV ConsultationiMarketsLive recently held events in Barbados and Trinidad. From what I understand, the Barbados event had a huge attendance (several hundred, possibly thousands from what I remember hearing). This piqued my interest in iMarketsLive itself. Who is iMarketsLive and was this a potential scam in the making? In this post I will refrain from answering…
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