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It is quite disappointing that after five months the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) has not paid its bills for the Tobago Jazz Festival. It is a further insult that all the foreign artistes were paid but local artistes are still getting the run-around for payments. This fact...

Today we recognize and celebrate the courage, the will and enduring spirit of those who fought for and won their freedom from slavery. Today none of us can truly understand the atrocities that slaves faced at the hands of those who were comfortable with treating fellow humans as...

The Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) Programme was introduced in 2004 as a replacement to the UNC’s Dollar-for-Dollar Education Plan which started in 2001. Up until 2015 successive Governments recognised the value of education, be it at the pre-primary, primary,...

Brigadier General Rodney Smart cannot continue in office as the Chief of Defence Staff after the shocking revelation today by the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force in the matter of the how children of the Attorney General came to be in possession of high powered weapons at the...

Today the Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC, MP was successful in her application seeking permission to apply for judicial review against the Children’s Life Fund Authority. Mrs. Persad Bissessar led the legal team representing Opposition Senator Wayne Sturge in...

The deterioration in this year’s Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) results is the direct result of the reversal of a number of policy initiatives of the People’s Partnership Administration. The current Minister of Education and his Junior Minister have quashed a comprehensive...

For yet another time, it is clear that instead of dealing with the fundamental issues plaguing our country, the Rowley PNM has resorted to throwing out distractions to deflect from the recent revelations widely reported in the media that the Rowley PNM has been and is in bed with...

I extend congratulations and best wishes to the more than 18,000 children who wrote this year’s Secondary Entrance Assessment. I wish, in particular, to congratulate Lexi Balchan of the Point Fortin ASJA Primary School for her outstanding achievement in placing first in th...

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, has described the Prime Minister’s dismissal of Marlene McDonald as “yet another episode in the unraveling saga of the Rowley Government”. The Opposition Leader issued the following statement: This latest debacle in the Rowley...

The Government has broken its promises to the people with regard to dealing with crime, and has failed to bring any measure of comfort to citizens, who continue to live in fear. This, according to Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP – Siparia, who today...

Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, says the Rowley-led Government has failed the people of Trinidad and Tobago and has effectively collapsed; the reshuffle will not improve the quality of life of the people of our country nor ensure their safety and security...

Some recent Newspaper reports on the Opposition’s walkout of the House of Representatives last Friday 23rd June 2017 warrant responses in order to correct some inaccuracies and to present the facts. The Sunday Express’ editorial of June 25, in particular, suggested that the...