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ON Friday the final shipment of relief items from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) will be sent to St Vincent and St Lucia, following devastating floods on Christmas Eve. In a release yesterday, the ODPM announced that the shipment will leave the Port of...

State oil company Petrotrin has to date paid out close to $3 million in compensation to those affected by the oil spills in the southwestern peninsula, Minister of Energy Kevin Ramnarine has said. Addressing Parliament at Tower D, International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain on...

Petrotrin continues to make significant progress in cleaning the beaches, shoreline and affected areas along the south western peninsula. Today a delegation of senior Petrotrin officials including Chairman Lindsay Gillette and President Khalid Hassanali visited the Pt. Sable and...

As Petrotrin has already indicated, the preliminary investigative report into the incident is inaccurate and any inference that the line has not been inspected and/or maintained over the last 17 years is without merit. The marine facility plays a major part in the daily...

Today, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago officially opened the new Teaching Hospital at Chancery Lane. In August, 2011, the Honourable Prime Minister mandated that UDECOTT work in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and the South-West Regional Health Authority to...

ATTORNEY GENERAL (AG) Anand Ramlogan will this week write to the Opposition to propose a meeting for next week to talk about anti-crime legislation, in the wake of public disquiet over 20 murders occurring in the first week of 2014. However, talking yesterday to Newsday, Ramlogan...

Today, the Ministry of National Security together with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) officially launches the Rapid Response Unit (RRU). The RRU is a new crime-fighting measure that will assist law enforcement. It is geared towards a more timely and effective...

PM Kamla is OK; Manning’s flight of fancy typical of PNM subterfuge Patrick Manning has been on his ‘sick bed’ since January 2012 when he suffered a stroke but every now and then he emerges to make some kind of khochoor using social media and the conventional...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC, returned to Trinidad this morning after spending a week visiting her ailing sister in New York. The Prime Minister was aboard BW 425 which landed at Piarco International Airport at 6.25 am. She was met on arrival by several Cabinet...

Petrotrin’s Explores its legal options against Guardian Media Limited Petrotrin’s attorneys have reviewed the Headline Story “Petrotrin audit uncovers oil line neglect…. Unchecked for 17 years” carried in today’s Guardian on Saturday, 2014 January 04, and have...