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On Saturday 9th April 2016 the Women’s Executive of the National Women’s Arm hosted a Capacity Building and Training Workshop at the Chaguanas Borough Corporation that was well attended by the Women’s Affairs Officers of the various UNC Constituency Executives. This Workshop was...

“Contrary to Prosperity”, this is how the Youth Arm of the United National Congress has described the Government’s Mid-year review of the 2015-2016 Budget. The UNC Youth Arm is of the view that this mid-year review has caused great pains and has brought fear to the citizens...

Something is very wrong with the move by Finance Minister Colm Imbert to approve a loan guarantee of US$5 million to a private company called Grand Bay Paper Products Limited, through the EXIM Bank, and given the issues arising from the Panama Papers stories, this requires urgent...

PAY the million-dollar compensation to the families of police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, and do it as a matter of urgency. This is the call from Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, speaking on Parliament Friday. Persad-Bissessar was at the...

The Youth Arm of the United National Congress is ecstatic over the clean sweep of victories by our West Indies Under-19, Women’s and Men’s teams at the 2016 ICC World Cup. Praises goes out to the determination of our Under-19 team who played exceptionally well all the way to the...

Trinidad and Tobago has, on a per capita basis, more fighters on the front-line of global terror than any country in the Commonwealth or from the Western hemisphere and neither our foreign policy, nor our anti-crime efforts, nor our priorities reflect this reality. This third...

Former President of National Infrastructure Development Company (NEDCO) Dr Carson Charles responds to Minister in the Office of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Stuart Young statements on the construction of the Solomon Hochoy Highway to Point Fortin The Facts: 1. On May...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath in a press release made a scathing attack on Prime Minister Keith Rowley for his response on the purchase of a Mercedes Benz by his Administration for the use of the Prime Minister. Padarath said that that Rowley was trying to distract from the real...

The Women’s Arm of the United National Congress is jubilant over the historic 8 wicket win by the West Indies Women’s Team in the T 20 Tournament just concluded in India. We note the pivotal role of 18 year old Hayley Matthews in the victory through her knock of 66...

As Chairman of the United National Congress I consider it regrettable and bewildering that food prices have substantially increased in the past month despite the Government’s reduction of the VAT rate from 15 percent to 12.5 percent as demonstrated by the Central Bank...