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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is to be congratulated for rising above her early blunders to assume Trinidad and Tobago’s leadership responsibility to distressed members of the Caricom family. The quick response of support to storm ravaged St Lucia and St Vincent has gone...

The headlines tended to mislead: “Street dwellers to be removed” implied that the measure, tried and failed for years, was to round-up street dwellers and cart them off to St Ann’s for virtual incarceration. The problem of vagrancy has been a blot on our society for far too long....

Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine says 2014 will be the best for natural gas production in T&T in three years. Speaking  at the National Gas Company’s (NGC) Christmas Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Ramnarine said 2013 will go down as the year the NGC was  transformed from a...

Praedial Larceny Squad (PLS): Equipped for Action 20th December, 2013: The Ministry of Food Production hosted a Handover Ceremony on Friday 20th December, 2013, at the Praedial Larceny Headquarters located at Farm Road, Curepe. The newly revived Praedial Larceny Squad (PLS) has...

The Honourable Kamla Persad Bissessar SC, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has requested that the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) mobilize foodstuff and emergency supplies to be sent to Caricom neighbor St Lucia, which was badly affected by the...

My fellow citizens, today, all around the world, people of faith and goodwill celebrate the joyous occasion of Christmas. Together we remember that holy night, over two thousand years ago, when the Christ Child, Jesus, was born – God’s gift to humanity. In tribute, the wise men...

EQUIPMENT ARRIVES FROM UNITED STATES:  Oil Spill cleanup equipment from Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) arrived this morning (December 23, 2013) at Piarco International Airport on two cargo aircraft. The equipment was immediately cleared through Customs and transported via...

The Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs (MEEA) wishes to advise that based on an assessment of oil spill clean-up activities along the coastal areas including Carrat Shed, Station Bay, Patience, Granville, Fullaton and Cedros beaches, the Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs,...

T&T has been ranked second among the top ten wealthy Caribbean nations based on Gross National Income (GNI), according to a report by the World Bank. In its 2014 World Development Report, the World Bank used the GNI to measure the wealth of Caribbean nations. The information...

A new Government initiative has been launched to encourage agro-entrepreneurship in non traditional areas. Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj has announced that 20 families will be selected for the pilot phase of small scale aquaponics project. He said the aim was to...