GKGEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO

1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO

   Tax Appeal Board chair complains about funding, delays (opens the original)

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   Chair­man of the Tax Ap­peal Board Dr An­tho­ny Gafoor has warned that chron­ic un­der­fund­ing, de­lays in ap­point­ments, out­dat­ed leg­is­la­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tive bot­tle­necks are threat­en­ing the ef­fec­tive­ness of one of T&T’s key ju­di­cial in­sti­tu­tions. Speak­ing dur­ing cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing the Tax Ap­peal Board’s 60th an­niver­sary which took place yes­ter­day, Gafoor out­lined a se­ries of long­stand­ing chal­lenges fac­ing the spe­cial­ist court, de­scrib­ing them as

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2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO

   Debt service squeezing people's priorities, analysts say (opens the original)

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   T&T’s grow­ing debt bur­den, per­sis­tent fis­cal deficits and con­tin­ued de­pen­dence on the en­er­gy sec­tor are rais­ing se­ri­ous con­cerns about the coun­try’s long-term eco­nom­ic sus­tain­abil­i­ty, with econ­o­mists Dr Vanus James and Dr Jamelia Har­ris warn­ing that pol­i­cy­mak­ers face in­creas­ing­ly lim­it­ed op­tions as they pre­pare the 2027 na­tion­al bud­get. The con­cerns emerge against a back­drop of wors­en­ing pub­lic debt in­di­ca­tors and more than a decade of re­cur­ring

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3. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO

   Browne: Household strains highlight deeper economic challenges (opens the original)

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   T&T’s eco­nom­ic chal­lenges are in­creas­ing­ly show­ing up in gro­cery carts and su­per­mar­ket aisles, where con­sumers are buy­ing small­er quan­ti­ties and care­ful­ly man­ag­ing every dol­lar spent, says com­men­ta­tor Mar­i­ano Browne. Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew Pro­gramme yes­ter­day, Browne not­ed re­tail­ers are re­port­ing de­clin­ing pur­chase vol­umes, a sign that many house­holds are un­der pres­sure even as in­fla­tion re­mains rel­a­tive­ly con­tained and ma­jor en­er­

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4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO

   OWTU gains bargaining status at Heritage, Paria (opens the original)

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   The Sen­ate on Fri­day ap­proved two amend­ments to the Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, Paria Fu­el Trad­ing and Guaracara Re­fin­ing Vest­ing Amend­ment Bill 2026, paving the way for the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) to be deemed the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union for work­ers at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing for both ex­ist­ing col­lec­tive agree­ments and fu­ture col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing. The amend­ments, which orig­i­nat­ed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, were passe

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5. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · GEISHA KOWLESSAR ALONZO

   Business community mourns death of Sheik Lisha founder (opens the original)

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   The busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of beloved in­dus­try gi­ant Churchill Azad Akaloo, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Sheik Lisha Ltd, who passed away on Fri­day night. He is re­mem­bered as a true trail­blaz­er, a ded­i­cat­ed phil­an­thropist and an icon of the lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor. Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Akaloo, 82, died af­ter ail­ing for some time. He led the Cunu­pia-based Sheik Lisha Ltd—orig­i­nal­ly found­ed as a fam­i­ly-owned busi­nes

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