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The Government’s move to refer the Cambridge Analytica matter to National Security JSC is nothing more than a political witch hunt, and the United National Congress will not subject itself to the Attorney General’s political “pappy show”. The UNC issued a statement today, noting...

As the new school term begins Oropouche East MP Dr. Roodal Moonilal is pleading with Education Minister Anthony Garcia to act swiftly to open the Ramai trace hindu school in the constituency of Oropouche East. This school was 90% completed in 2015 when the People’s...

  Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, is calling for the dismissal of National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, in the wake of media reports aired on Wednesday 11th April, 2018. Below is a statement issued by the Opposition Leader today: Another day,...

Four days ago Keith Rowley had confidence in every member of his Cabinet and one day ago he still had confidence in Darryl Smith despite the swirl of allegations of sexual harassment, misconduct and incompetence reported in the national media. Today, claiming “new information”...

Political Leader of the United National Congress and Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, has once again made good on her promise to the people of this country to fight the wicked Rowley PNM in the Parliament, outside the Parliament and in the Courts. On...

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s return to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development is a disturbing throwback to an earlier and troubling period when this vital portfolio fell under his watch. During his first incarnation under the Patrick Manning administration...

“Outrageous and insulting to the people of this country.” This is the way Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, is describing Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s latest Cabinet reshuffle. The Leader of the Opposition issued the following statement. Prime Minister...

SPORT Minister Darryl Smith does not have the moral standing to sit in the Parliament or represent any woman in Trinidad and Tobago, says Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who yesterday called for his immediate dismissal. Woman’s rights group Womantra has also...

  Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath slammed the petty and vile comments from Prime Minister Keith Rowley on his call for Rowley to remove Sport Minister, Darryl Smith and Attorney General, Faris Al Rawi over allegations of sexual harassment and an alleged conspiracy to have...

Princes Town, MP Barry Padarath says that the details revealed over the allegations of sexual harassment by Minister Darryl Smith in today’s Trinidad Express front page story is damning and damaging. Padarath said that the contents of the article appears to put Minister Darryl...

Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath said he was appalled at the responses given by Prime Minister Keith Rowley to several burning national issues raised at the post cabinet press briefing yesterday by reporters. Rowley, who was in the sister isle during the Easter holidays, appeared...

In my capacity as Member of Parliament for Pointe a Pierre I am calling on Government to inform the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago if our Energy assets are under threat from a possible terror attack by a local terrorist cell operated by ISIS as reported in a publication by...