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Government’s efforts to reduce the time it takes to do business is paying off, Trade Minster Vasant Bharath said yesterday. He said that was the reason for T&T’s improvement on the World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2014. “We are now at position 66, which means we have jumped...

Minster of Trade, Industry and Investment, Vasant Bharath urged local manufacturers, potential exporters and export support agencies to ‘become export competitive by improving standards and processes, expanding production and tapping into new markets’.  This he said ‘is supported...

The El Dorado Girls Youth Camp has been refurbished and converted into an Academy solely dedicated to the training of nurses and allied health care workers. The Academy of Nursing and Allied Health will help to address the great shortage of nurses and health care workers in...

Following are some major Infrastructure Development in Roads under the People’s Partnership government for the period 2010 – 2015. Completion of the Aranguez Overpass Construction of the Aranguez overpass started on December 21, 2009, and was expected to cost between...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar cuts the ribbon to declare the South to North (S-N) lane of the UBH overpass open at the CRH/UBH Interchange. This S-N lane of the overpass is part of the new traffic routes at the Interchange that will be in effect from Sunday Oct 13. It...

The People’s Partnership government has set for itself three important goals for ensuring a vibrant local government system: The development of better communities The delivery of better quality services The creation of stronger councils The quality of service delivery has...

The issue of good governance has been brought into the political fray over the last two years. In particular questions have been raised as to whether the PP is indeed concerned with good governance. The following are some of the high points in the PP approach to good governance...

VILLAGERS of Siew Trace off Boodoo Trace in Debe finally got their road paved after waiting for decades. On Sunday, the villagers gathered to celebrate the opening of the newly paved road. Pastor Dhimsingh Boodoosingh, 77, of the Full Gospel Fellowship church located in Siew...

ADDRESS BY: The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, S.C., MP Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago  at the launch of the 2013 distribution of laptops to Form One students of the St James Secondary School. A pleasant good afternoon to all. Let me say how truly...

NEW LAND and Marine Resources Minister, Jairam Seemungal yesterday accused ex-Caroni 1975 limited workers of negligence saying that they have contributed to a backlog in the distribution of leases.