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I join with the national community in commemorating the 56th Anniversary of the Independence of Trinidad and Tobago. Fifty-six years of charting our own course as a nation, on a road that has been fraught with challenges, but with a people determined to move our country along the...

The United National Congress joins the rest of the national community as we mourn the passing of Elliot “Ellie” Mannette, known by many as the father of the modern steel pan. Ellie was a truly great son of the soil and patriot who dedicated his life’s work to the...

Eric Williams, faced with the worst crisis in the energy sector in the 1970s, made the interest and welfare of workers his preeminent concern. Rowley, half a century later, by contrast with no known exit strategy for Petrotrin workers is clearly showing that balance sheet,...

As a Member of Parliament in a region where many of the affected employees and energy service contractors reside or are headquartered I am compelled to add my voice in condemnation of the callous, cold, heartless and wicked move by the Rowley administration to summarily shut down...

In a statement today, Opposition Leader and Political Leader of the United National Congress Mrs Kamla Persad Bissessar, urged the Keith Rowley administration to take a cautious and pragmatic approach to the Petrotrin issue. How the restructuring of Petrotrin is handled will have...

“True to form, whether it is the Venezuela agreement, Sandals negotiations, the Galleon Passage fiasco, our diversification ‘mystery plans’, or the OAS and Darryl Smith Reports; citizens of T&T remain totally in the dark about almost everything under this Rowley led...

The Government took to the media today to defend the secrecy surrounding the Dragon gas deal, while still remaining committed to keeping the people of Trinidad and Tobago in the dark. Since its inception this Keith Rowley Government has approached transparency and accountability...

The recent public statements by the TTMA which indicated that some manufacturers have not yet been paid for goods delivered to Venezuela which formed part of a trade deal fostered between the governments of our nation and Venezuela in 2016 is not only proof of this...

On Wednesday a call by the media alerted me to the possibility that the Noel Garcia led UDeCoTT had allowed insurance coverage to lapse for the Government Campus Plaza, which house the following Ministries and state agencies: 1. Inland Revenue Division; 2. Custom and Excise...

As Member of Parliament for Pointe a Pierre I am calling on the Government to come clean on the future of Petrotrin on behalf of the hundreds of my constituents who are employed at the state oil company and the thousands more from across our nation who earn a livelihood from this...