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Dear Editor: My mother use to tell me, you must not play smart with foolishness! What wise words they have turned out to be as I have lived my life. These part couple of week we have seen significant foolishness being played out in front of our very eyes and people playing smart...

On this auspicious day, I wish to congratulate Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan on being the youngest person in history to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She is truly deserving of this recognition. She embodies passion and dedication in every project she undertakes as she ceaselessly...

Dear Editor: On October 6, 2014, Lawrence Summers, the Charles W. Eliot Professor of Economics at Harvard and a former US Treasury secretary, wrote a column in the Financial Times commenting on the fiscal benefits of public spending. He expressed pleasant surprise at the about...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has asked members of the Inter Religious Organisation (IRO) to intervene and save the life of environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh. Today, IRO president Haripersad Maharaj and other IRO members will meet with Kublalsingh at noon outside the...

The United National Congress notes with deep concern a matter that affects fairness and balance in the media. This matter goes to the very root of our democracy as it relates to the role of the fourth estate in providing our citizenry with “objective” information upon which they...

I am now reading that no appeal was ever filed by the HRM and Wayne Kublalsingh to the Privy Council. If this is true, then this is perhaps the lowest that Dr Kublalsingh and the HRM and its supporters  have gone; they have lost all respect and now owes the citizens, especially...

ORANGE Valley residents saw a night filled with lights, weeks before the celebration of Divali, as the Trinidad & Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) officially illuminated the Orange Valley Recreation Ground on Tuesday. $685,292.00 was spent on this project which...

The Minister of National Security Senator the Honourable Gary Griffith wishes to state that on September 12, 2014 the CIA assessed that between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria were part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). More than 15,000 foreign...

I wish to advise that I have been informed by the Privy Council Agents for the State that they have searched the Privy Council records and no appeal has been lodged by Dr. Kublalsingh and the Highway Re-route Movement to date. I had in fact consented to the ‘Grant of Leave’...

MINISTER of Tertiary Education and Skills Training Fazal Karim has launched OJT Finance, a new initiative of the On-the-Job Training programme, along with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the TT International Financial Centre (TTIFC). The launch and MOU...