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Members of the House of Representatives have received copies of the notice and the Private Member’s Bill submitted by Leader of the Opposition and Member of Parliament for Siparia, the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC. On Wednesday 4th September, 2019, the Opposition Leader...

Member of Parliament for Couva South the Honourable Rudranath Indarsingh is today expressing his total disgust with the Ministry of Education and Minister Anthony Garcia over the daily closure of the Couva West Secondary School which has been since schools re-opened last Monday...

The breakdown of the mortuary refrigerator at San Fernando General Hospital is another crushing indictment against the incompetent Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh. With his tragic track record of failures, Mr. Deyalsingh must tender his resignation to permit the...

The Keith Rowley-led PNM Administration continues to have both the High Court and Industrial Court pronounce on an extraordinary record of legal defeats in many matters where the Government is the Defendant; but more so in matters involving Labour disputes, according to Membe...

Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, has written to the Clerk of the House of Representatives indicating her intention to introduce a Private Member’s Bill: The Sedition Repeal Bill, 2019. The Bill would be introduced pursuant to Standing Order 60 of the...

The Great Dr Martin Luther King said, “We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now”. This statement rings so true after 57 years of independence. We are Trinidadians and Tobagonians; we cannot be and should not try to be anyone else. While we must...

The United National Congress continues to show its readiness for the upcoming Local Government Elections as Political Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar, for a second time in as many weeks, presented the Candidates that the party has selected thus far at last night’s Monday Night...

The Member of Parliament for Oropouche West, Mrs. Vidia Gayadeen- Gopeesingh is condemning Prime Minister Rowley for his refusal to roll out a feasible anti-crime plan and his embarrassing remarks at a Press Conference in Barbados. Commenting on newspaper reports which indicated...

Member of Parliament for Couva South Rudranath Indarsingh is calling the recent statement of Minister of Labour and Small Enterprise Development Jennifer Baptiste-Primus that “Labour sector strong despite retrenchment” an egregious insult to the intelligence of not only all...

Given the announcement of Government to remove Wilfred Espinet as Chairman of Trinidad Petroleum Holdings (TPH) as well as a member of the boards of its subsidiaries, the question must be put to the Prime Minister as to who is he trying to fool with this move ? The Prime Minister...

The latest action by the Trinidad Petroleum Holdings (TPH) board led by Wilfred Espinet to appoint a team to oversee Heritage Petroleum Limited is just an attempt to cover up the shameful fact that this major company which government said would be the new driver of the national...

“Despite Government’s boast about progress in the fight against crime, it has all come to naught as T&T is still on track to cross 500 murders for 2019 and even prison officers are feeling the wrath of criminal elements and demonstrating that we may well be headed for failed...