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In 2010, the Kamla Persad Bissessar administration began the distribution of computers to children in Form 1 of Secondary Schools. Approximately 95, 000 computers have been distributed to students and teachers. When this matter first came up in Parliament it met with serious...

President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Mr. Luis Alberto Moreno and the Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development, Senator Dr. the Honourable Bhoendradatt Tewarie yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the establishment of the Multi Donor...

MAHA SHIVRATRI was celebrated by Hindus across Trinidad & Tobago on Tuesday as they made offerings to Lord Shiva on the night dedicated to His worship. Despite this year’s religious celebration coinciding with Carnival, Hindus still came out in their numbers to various...

Today, February 19th, 2015 marks the start of festivities in celebration of Chinese New Year, the year of the Sheep in the Chinese year 4713. The annual event is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The festivities include reunion of families and...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC visited 11 temples in her Siparia constituency between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in observance of the Hindu festival of Maha Shiva Raatri. The celebration started shortly after 9 pm on Tuesday and ended around 4.30 am on...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has congratulated Dr. Timothy Harris on his appointment as Prime Minister of St. Kitts-Nevis, following General Elections on the island on Monday 16th February, 2015. “On behalf of the Government and people of Trinidad and Tobago and on my...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar today sent greetings to the Hindu Community on the occasion of Maha Shiva Raatri, which is being celebrated tonight in temples and homes throughout Trinidad and Tobago. The ancient festival is dedicated to Lord Shiva, the destroyer of evil in...

The Government Trinidad and Tobago is concerned that a day after the closure of polling, authorities in St Kitts and Nevis have not yet declared the results of the election held on Monday, February 16th 2015. In a statement on Tuesday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar sai...

With videos of students engaged in bullying and other acts of violence at the nation’s schools increasingly finding its way onto social media, Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar yesterday revealed that Education Minister, Dr Tim Gopeesingh had been asked to present the...

THE Women’s Arm of the United National Congress (UNC) is today calling on Chaguanas West MP, Jack Warner, to apologise for what they have described as “his incessant misogynistic diatribe”. The call comes following criticisms from Warner over Prime Minister Kam...