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Dear Editor, The law plays many functions which include keeping the peace and enhancing personal freedom, promoting economic growth through free competition, promoting social justice and protecting the environment. Law acts as a deterrent to control the evil and treacherous...

Dear Editor, Both Houses of Parliament now have new Standing Orders (NSOs). Smashing! Long overdue! Very welcome changes! Doesn’t mean these NSOs are perfect. They’re human. They can be tweaked if a lacuna’s discovered. One exists a while now. The NSOs...

Government and business emerged from three hours of discussion yesterday with greater optimism on how budget adjustments will work to preserve economic and social stability. Following what Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar described as an important conversation with the...

“With prudent adjustments, we can withstand lower oil prices especially as the best administration is in place which has the willingness, competence and experience to overcome this challenge.” So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar last evening as she addressed over 400...

It is with deep sadness that I learnt of the death of journalist Mr Raoul Pantin on Wednesday. Mr Pantin was a journalist ‘extraordinaire’ whose writings were known to the people of Trinidad and Tobago for the past 53 years. Our nation and the entire media fraternity...

The Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development, Bhoendradatt Tewarie on behalf of the Council for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) officially launched the nation’s largest Social Innovation Programme on Wednesday 14 January 2015 at Medulla Art Gallery in Woodbrook. The...

Dear Editor: I was simply amazed while recently reading a story in the newspapers. Leader of the Opposition, Keith Rowley, was once again peddling some form of misinformation. Here he was saying the the current Governor of the Central Bank, created four new foreign exchange...

Dear Editor: The Attorney General is making sincere strides to curb the crime situation. He is reaching out to the Opposition in an effort to resume hangings. Hangings are seen as a strong measure to reduce crime and it would be a monumental shift if it resumes. Also too, denying...

THE former PNM government twice abandoned the country and people in times of crisis caused by ‘their own brand of busto’nomics’ that destabilised the national economy. This is how Minister of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communication, Vasant Bharath, described the state of...

Dr. Rowley has made several public statements on the issue of the death penalty that are misleading and mischievous. Clarification is necessary to avoid confusion as a result of his gross misrepresentations. 1. Rowley said “The death penalty is already the law and the PNM...