AWAnthony Wilson

1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Anthony Wilson

   Are the procurement amendments a licence for corruption? (opens the original)

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   On three of the four Thurs­days in June, this col­umn in­ter­ro­gat­ed the de­ci­sion by the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s use of se­lec­tive, com­pet­i­tive pro­cure­ment process­es to choose con­trac­tors for ma­jor hous­ing projects in Trinidad. The is­sue was high­light­ed: on June 4 un­der the head­line ‘Who will ben­e­fit from the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion projects?’ on June 11, with the head­line, ‘Will the OPR do the right thing?’ and on June 25, when the ques­tion was ‘Dif­fer­ent HDC process

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2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Anthony Wilson

   Is NIB stable? (opens the original)

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   The strong fi­nan­cial health of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIB) is cru­cial to every per­son liv­ing in this coun­try, main­ly be­cause the coun­try’s so­cial in­sur­ance provider touch­es al­most every house­hold. The num­bers are stag­ger­ing: in its lat­est fi­nan­cial re­port for the year end­ed June 30, 2025, the NIB record­ed its cus­tomer base at 633,001, in­clud­ing 207,222 long-term ben­e­fi­cia­ries and 18,914 em­ploy­ers. In its 2025 fi­nan­cial year,

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3. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Anthony Wilson

   Is NIBTT’s RFHL share purchase prudent? (opens the original)

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   On Sep­tem­ber 2, 2026, the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) bought an ad­di­tion­al 4,430,161 of the is­sued share cap­i­tal of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd. The share price of RFHL closed at $110 on Sep­tem­ber 1, which means NIBTT would have paid in the re­gion of $487,317,710 ($487.31 mil­lion) for the shares when the trade took place on Sep­tem­ber 2. The sell­er of the RFHL shares was al­most cer­tain­ly Cor­po­ra­tion Sole (Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­

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4. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Anthony Wilson

   Has the Govt tracked the cartel-linked US$ billions? (opens the original)

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   On June 11, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is­sued a state­ment on Face­book, claim­ing that “mas­sive amounts of for­eign cur­ren­cy” was pur­chased by lo­cal busi­ness­es, which was then wire trans­ferred to for­eign ac­counts linked to drug car­tels. The T&T Prime Min­is­ter’s com­ments on so­cial me­dia were made on the same day that At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, John Je­re­mie, wrapped up the de­bate in Par­lia­ment to ex­tend the State if Emer­gency for a fur­ther three months. Speak­i

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5. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Anthony Wilson

   Is Govt planning to sell Hilton to a UNC financier? (opens the original)

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   Yes­ter­day, my col­league, se­nior mul­ti­me­dia busi­ness re­porter An­drea Perez-Sobers, wrote the lead sto­ry for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Guardian un­der the head­line ‘Hilton warns of Sep­tem­ber 18 ex­it as lease arrange­ment yet to be fi­nalised.’ The Hilton’s dead­line for the con­clu­sion of the ne­go­ti­a­tions to ex­tend the lease is im­por­tant, news­wor­thy, and con­se­quen­tial be­cause the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre has been an im­por­tant part of T&T’s post-In­de­

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