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Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar cuts the ribbon to declare the South to North (S-N) lane of the UBH overpass open at the CRH/UBH Interchange. This S-N lane of the overpass is part of the new traffic routes at the Interchange that will be in effect from Sunday Oct 13. It...

DEPUTY Leader of the United National Congress (UNC) Roodal Moonilal has claimed that a second candidate from the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) for the upcoming local government elections is a deportee. Moonilal told UNC supporters during a political meeting in Debe on Friday...

THE EDITOR: If debates were elections, then the fight was only between the UNC and the PNM. At Thursday night’s local Government debate, Ken Roach of the Independent Liberal party was dismal, disappointing and lacklustre. The UNC came with its basket and let rip from the word go,...

Dear Editor:The recent move to increase the list of offences that would apply to “one strike and you’re out” policy is definitely a step in the right direction. Reviewing the list, I was shocked that someone committing an offence like kidnapping for ransom,...

Dear Editor: Recently on the election hustling, Jack Warner made the promise that he would increase the minimum wage to twenty dollars. This has to be one of the most economically dangerous statement that one could have mad, and one that is not based on any economic facts. It has...

The Editor: For far too long, criminals in Trinidad and Tobago see no true justice for the heinous crimes that they commit. As a result, our country has been riddles with criminal activities such as have never seen before. The way our country has been governed in the 80’s a...

ALTHOUGH the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) announced it would field candidates at all 136 local government districts in the upcoming elections, checks yesterday revealed that for at least six districts, no ILP candidate was actually nominated by that party. While it has been...

Kerwin Bucchan, one of the Independent Liberal Party’s (ILP) candidates for the local government elections, was granted $250,000 bail yesterday on the charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition and shooting with intent. Police prosecutor Sgt Shiva Boodoo told the court he...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday her time spent at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, Barbados, moulded her as a leader and a person who dared to pursue change for the betterment of the people. She was delivering the feature address at...

Energy Sector Records 1.6% Growth in the Second Quarter of 2013 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago—The energy sector grew by 1.6% in the second quarter of 2013, according to Central Bank data. The growth in the first quarter of 2013 was 0.5%. Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs...