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The Women’s Arm of the United National Congress (UNC) wishes to condemn in the strongest possible manner the brutal murder of Patrina Salandy, a mother of five, and sixteen year old Rohan Ayres, who were both fatally shot on Tuesday 24th, June. Ms Salandy was gunned down...

Gov’t will not proceed with approving the Bills until all perspectives and opinions are ventilated “It is rare that the Government and the Opposition ever agree on anything. The Judges Salaries and Pensions (Amendment) Bill, 2013 and the Retiring Allowances...

VISA waivers for the People’s Republic of China is not a done deal and will require collaboration and negotiation between that country and Trinidad and Tobago, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Roodal Moonilal said on Friday. Dr Moonilal’s statement was in response to calls...

Labour is safe under the People’s Partnership Government The rights of workers and strength of the trade union movement has never been safer, than under the People’s Partnership Government, Minister of Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development, Errol McLeod said earlier...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC on Friday dismissed as “reckless and dishonest in the extreme” claims by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley that the LifeSport programme is being used to “fund criminal elements in the East/West corridor ahead of the 2015 general election”....

THE Opposition Leader, Dr Keith Rowley, is now “desperately trying to wiggle his way out of the PNM’s baggage of guilt”, Minister of Trade, Investment and Communication, Vasant Bharath has said. Minister Bharath took Dr Rowley to task on comments made in a news report on Thursday...

Following is a message from the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago on the occasion of Corpus Christi 2014. Dear fellow citizens, Tomorrow, Thursday, 19th June 2014, marks the observance of two distinct holidays, which are characteristic of...

Labour Day Message to the Nation by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC. MP, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Dear fellow citizens, Thursday ,19 June 2014, is an auspicious occasion marking the observance of the birth and recognition of our country’s labour movement, which led...

The Leader of the Opposition, Dr Keith Rowley, played a significant role in the fall of the previous PNM Administration both because of “his silence and permissiveness in the face of rampant corruption” and “because of his arrogance and refusal to listen and understand the...

The United National Congress wishes to extend our heartfelt condolences to the leader of our Youth Arm, Nicholas Morris, on the sudden passing of his father, Wilfred Morris, who died yesterday (June 14, 2014) in a vehicular accident in San Fernando at age 47, in the prime of his...