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Central farmers no longer have to get up at 3 am to go to Tunapuna or Port-of-Spain to sell their produce. From next week, the farmers will be wholesaling their produce at their own Central Farmers’ Wholesale Market at Woodford Lodge, Chaguanas. The newly-renovated 22,680 square...

THE STATE has allocated 500 acres of land at Felicity for the production of $6 million in rice annually, Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj announced yesterday. “Rice has been identified as a key staple to be targeted for increased local production,” Maharaj said, speaking...

The National Schools Dietary Services Limited, the State-owned enterprise which falls under the direction of the Ministry of Education and which has responsibility for the School Nutrition Programme, took a proactive approach in responding to the recent challenge it faced with...

The governments of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expressed their commitment to the advancement of the process of Unitization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs between the two Republics. The Unitization process seeks to develop important...

GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR, SC, MP PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO AT THE WORKING VISIT OF H.E. NICOLÁS MADURO MOROS, PRESIDENT OF THE BOLIVARIAN...

By Capil Bissoon If at Carnival or any other occasion someone were to wine behind the Prime Minister and were she to respond, what would the country have said? What would the PNM and Keith Rowley be saying today? I can just envisage the headlines, “Disgraceful behaviour by the...

In 2010, the Kamla Persad Bissessar administration began the distribution of computers to children in Form 1 of Secondary Schools. Approximately 95, 000 computers have been distributed to students and teachers. When this matter first came up in Parliament it met with serious...

President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Mr. Luis Alberto Moreno and the Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development, Senator Dr. the Honourable Bhoendradatt Tewarie yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the establishment of the Multi Donor...

MAHA SHIVRATRI was celebrated by Hindus across Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday as they made offerings to Lord Shiva on the night dedicated to His worship. Despite this year’s religious celebration coinciding with Carnival, Hindus still came out in their numbers to various...

Today, February 19th, 2015 marks the start of festivities in celebration of Chinese New Year, the year of the Sheep in the Chinese year 4713. The annual event is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The festivities include reunion of families and...