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Given the recent statements by the Minister of Energy against state oil company Petrotrin it is time the Government come clean with the citizens of our nation and admit that they intend to privatize the pertinent state owned company. Speaking at an energy conference in the HYATT...

Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon has stirred more confusion and bewilderment in the latest saga of his New York apartment drama. Mr. Dillon’s statement to the media that he voluntarily returned the disputed condominium ignores the fact that he was earlier taken to...

The Member of Parliament for Oropouche West Mrs. Vidia Gayadeen Gopeesingh slammed Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley for his callous statements regarding crime in Trinidad and Tobago. At a public meeting last Friday Dr. Rowley stated that there are citizens purporting lies and...

Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon has a responsibility to explain to the nation why he sold his disputed New York apartment after he had insisted he was not guilty in the messy property dispute. Mr. Dillon has a duty to justify the sale of the luxury mansion for a...

“Instead of presenting the country with a clear and viable plan to fight the criminal elements, and protect citizens and visitors, National Security Minister Dillon has resorted to statistical fraud, obfuscation and manipulation.” So said Leader of the Opposition Kamla...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath slammed National Security Minister Edmund Dillon for his comments in the Parliament yesterday calling on Padarath to “shut up”. Padarath who at the time was asking Minister Dillon what action he had taken to bring down the murder rate was met with...

EIGHTY-ONE (81) years ago, the trade union movement of Trinidad and Tobago was officially cemented as a viable and social, economic and political force on June 19, 1937, when the Butler Oilfield Riots occurred, creating, essentially, the very foundation of our modern-day...

Naparima MP Rodney Charles is calling on Prime Minister Dr Rowley to have an earnest chat with Barbados’ Mia Mottley on Sandals and, if he is minded to listen, he will learn what every school child knows, that the all inclusive tourism model has failed our region miserably....

This Sunday we take time to honour and celebrate the special role fathers play in the home, in their communities and in our nation. Fathers are viewed as sources of strength, courage, motivation for those in their charge. In the eyes of a child they are seen as heroes, role...

Member of Parliament for Couva South and the Opposition Labour and Enterprise Development Critic Rudranath Indarsingh is asking what is there to celebrate on Labour Day 2018 in Trinidad and Tobago. Labour Day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of the workers...

The Member of Parliament for Oropouche West, Mrs. Vidia Gayadeen- Gopeesingh, has condemned this impotent, Rowley led government for its inability to treat with the untenable crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago. In a release issued on Saturday the MP stated, “January was the...

“How many more must die before the Prime Minister and the Government take their jobs seriously and take action on crime?” This is the question asked by Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, at the funeral service of 19-year-old Eric Ganesh on Thursday 16th June...