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The UNC is deeply troubled by media reports that the Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mr. Colm Imbert has advised the Parliament that the government has appealed the judgment in favour of the UNC’s Mr. Devant Maharaj on the property tax case. Mr. Imbert further...

We welcome the grant of this injunction by the Supreme Court of Justice (see attached). We promised you a strong and forceful legal challenge to the illegal and unconstitutional action of the Minister of Finance and now Acting Prime Minister Colm Imbert. The mad rush to impose...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath slammed Prime Minister Keith Rowley for introducing race talks into the national community as it relates to the issues raised about the safety and structural integrity of the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba. Dr. Rowley made the comments about...

Leader of the Opposition and Political Leader of the United National Congress Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP is calling on citizens to take a stand against the Government’s move to implement the Property Tax. Speaking at the UNC’s Monday Night Forum in Tunapuna on 15th May, 2017,...

The Member of Parliament for Caroni Central, Dr Bhoe Tewarie, condemns in the strongest manner the insensitivity and lack of responsiveness of the Minister of Education to the formidable challenges of students, parents and teachers at the Preysal Government School. The sewer...

Government’s mid-year review of the economy revealed two important lessons that under this PNM Trinidad and Tobago is slowly but surely becoming a failed state. Additionally, the PNM has no plan to change this trajectory. The mid-year review provided Finance Minister Colm Imbert...

by Kevin Ramnarine In 1977, Margaret Thatcher (not yet PM of Britain), speaking at the University of Zurich called for a “revolt against excessive taxation”. Excessive taxation had stagnated Britain in the 1970’s. In 1979 when she became Prime Minister she reinvented the British...

The cruel destruction of 15 family homes at Pine Avenue, Valencia is another arbitrary and callous act of the uncaring Rowley regime. Prime Minister Rowley and Housing Minister Randall Mitchell must tell the nation what legal processes were used in the heartless demolition of the...

As Chairman of the United National Congress I find it quite erroneous that reports have been focusing on baseless theories of the Opposition not being able to inspire confidence while the Government continues to suppress the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. The question must be...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath has described yesterday’s opening of the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba as a flop. He said by all accounts including several media reports the facility which boasts about a fifteen thousand person capacity had less than twenty five hundred...