With the Gov­ern­ment ex­pect­ing to col­lect $191 mil­lion in prop­er­ty tax, the In­land Rev­enue Di­vi­sion (IRD) has al­ready re­ceived $105 mil­lion from prop­er­ty own­ers. In a me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert re­vealed that, as of yes­ter­day, prop­er­ty own­ers paid $105,609,387 for 104,102 prop­er­ties. Break­ing it down, he said $13 mil­lion came from prop­er­ty own­ers with­in the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion; Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, $13 mil­lion; San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, $9 mil­lion; San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion, $9 mil­lion; Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, $9 mil­lion; Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, $8 mil­lion; and Port-of-Spain City, $3 mil­lion.

There will be no swan song for Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert, as he says he will be de­liv­er­ing his 11th bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion next year once the PNM wins the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says he of­fered to set­tle the wage ne­go­ti­a­tion im­passe be­tween Caribbean Air­lines and pi­lots to put an end to mis­in­for­ma­tion float­ing around.

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan says ships will be redi­rect­ed from the Port of Port-of-Spain to the Point Lisas Port to pre­vent a ma­jor shut­down of port op­er­a­tions in this coun­try.

Ex­tor­tion was again the main top­ic of dis­cus­sion when the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) met with Kei­th Scot­land, the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty (Ag), on Mon­day. 

A Cunu­pia busi­ness­woman is now sell­ing her spa and says she will be re­lo­cat­ing af­ter re­peat­ed­ly be­ing tar­get­ed by ex­tor­tion­ists for $30,000. Malai­ka Gar­raway, the own­er of Ar­ray Mas­sages and Mas­sage Train­ing, is speak­ing out about the con­stant threats she has been fac­ing.

The head of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit, ACP Richard Smith, says one ma­jor gang is be­hind in­ci­dents of ex­tor­tion in Cen­tral and North Cen­tral dis­tricts.

While the world was anx­ious to know who would be­come the 47th pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, many uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents re­mained un­fazed by the out­come.

While no one could pre­dict the out­come of the Unit­ed States pres­i­den­tial elec­tion yes­ter­day with cer­tain­ty, some ex­perts in the en­er­gy sec­tor say T&T could be poised for change as it re­lates to our re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela.

Yes­ter­day, Unit­ed States cit­i­zens took to the polls with the out­come of their vote des­tined to cre­ate his­to­ry as the De­moc­rats’ Ka­mala Har­ris was poised to be­come the coun­try’s first fe­male pres­i­dent, and Don­ald Trump, the Re­pub­li­can nom­i­nee, was po­si­tioned to be the sec­ond pres­i­dent to serve non-con­sec­u­tive terms. 

A 42-year-old busi­ness­woman in­tends to take le­gal ac­tion against two den­tists af­ter a tool ac­ci­den­tal­ly slipped down her throat dur­ing a pro­ce­dure, re­sult­ing in her hav­ing to un­der­go surgery.

A for­mer THA sec­re­tary lost his law­suit over be­ing fired as a spe­cial ad­vis­er to Sports Min­is­ter Sham­fa Cud­joe al­most two months af­ter he took up the po­si­tion.