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ATTORNEY GENERAL Anand Ramlogan called Opposition PNM Senator Fizgerald Hinds a hypocrite for telling Diego Martin schoolchildren not to accept UNC charity, while himself living in a $15 million, four-storey, upscale mansion in Maraval outfitted with a swimming pool.

Dear Hon. Mr. Warner, You may recall earlier this year, you made allegations both in parliament and in public regarding a plot to subvert the government and de-stabilize the country. You went on to name several persons in this alleged conspiracy, one of whom, you also stated was...

After weeks of maneuvering by the Canadian government to secure a lucrative contract in Trinidad and Tobago for graft-tainted engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, the government of that Caribbean nation has announced that it isn’t interested in dealing with a company that has...

Ladies and gentlemen As the Chairperson of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I am both delighted and honoured to extend to you, congratulations on your assumption to the position of President of the 68th Session of the General...

Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar co-chairs meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and PNM MPs Colm Imbert and Marlene McDonald may have behaved irresponsibly in making alarmist statements on the ongoing negotiations between this country and Venezuela regarding the monetising of gas from the huge, cross-border, Loran/Manatee...

Recent “misinformation” by the Opposition PNM on the T&T/Venezuelan Loran Manatee gas venture has the potential to damage T&T’s relationship with Venezuela, its standing in the international energy community and it has damaged T&T’s future, says Energy Minister Kevin...

Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine says the voting rights for the Loran/Manatee field are shared between the Government (16.9 per cent), BGTT  (4.98 per cent) and Chevron T&T (4.98 per cent). 

ON THE OCCASION OF THE 37TH REPUBLICAN ANNIVERSARY Thirty-seven years ago we chose a path to development with a new constitution that allowed us to elect our own head of state and govern ourselves according to a new set of rules that gave us greater confidence as a young state...

One day a few years ago I stood on the edge of a jetty “down the islands” with my cousin. We had practically grown up there, coming to swim, lime and fish since early childhood, and could remember the buckets of fish we caught there on a monthly basis. But something was different...