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I have duly noted the response of Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh to my very questions raised on the platform at a UNC meeting last night (August, 20, 2018) in the Chaguanas East constituency regarding family ties in State contracts. In my comments made on a public political...

On Saturday night I listened in disbelief to the speech delivered by Minister of Social Development and Family Services – MP for Lopinot / Bon Air West Mrs. Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn where she sought to convince the small gathering at the PNM’s meeting that the government is...

On May 20th 2013, then Opposition Leader Keith Rowley apparently misled Parliament about a plot by then PM Kamla Persad Bissessar. The conspiracy being a plot to harm and discredit reporter Denyse Renne, undermine the office of the DPP and pay monies in exchange for freedom by an...

It is with a profound sense of sadness that I learned of the passing of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away at the age of 80 on 18th August 2018. Mr. Annan was a true statesman and spent much of his life working towards global peace and security...

Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath has called on Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley to break his silence on the Wilson report into allegations of wrongful dismissal against former Minister Darryl Smith. Padarath indicated that Rowley confirmed that he received the report of the...

The frustrated youths who have suffered from a lack of opportunities, poor infrastructure and joblessness, yesterday expressed their hopelessness with the circumstances in which they have found themselves, by splashing water on Fitzgerald Hinds. With each drizzle of rain, their...

I have noted with alarm the current heated and passionate national debate surrounding a recent display at the Rowley PNM’s Family Day celebrations, of a so-called ‘skit’ which has essentially attacked three major groups in our democracy and has now reached a point of national...

The governing Keith Rowley led PNM has sunk to an all time low with it’s promotion of misogyny and religious insensitivity via the offensive skit which was warmly cheered on by the hierarchy of the PNM at their family day on Sunday at the Edinburgh 500 recreation ground. It...

If a Government is serious about tackling the epidemic of violence against women and a culture of lack of respect for women and girls, then the People’s National Movement Government should start by condemning and issuing an apology to all women for the depiction of sexual assault...

I note the media release by the Minister of Local Government which calls on “all fourteen (14) Mayors and Chairmen to ensure that their DMU are on alert and on the ground to assist affected persons”. It should be noted that Regional Corporations have been severely under resourced...

In his lifetime, he continued to stun critics, admirers and literary masters of every part of the globe   “One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.”...

The revelation by Minister of National Security Stuart Young that he issued instructions to law enforcement officials has again raised fears about political meddling in independent investigations. They concerns come against the on-going dark suspicions that the Rowley regime is...