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Dear Editor, please permit me to respond to your Editorial entitled “Pointless Political duel” published on Thursday 10th February 2022. I strongly object to your assertion that my use of the term “narco-trafficking regime” to describe the authoritarian government run by Nicolas...

I note with extreme concern the latest, pathetic, appalling, dangerous meltdown of Prime Minister Keith Rowley, where, in a Facebook post on the tragic killing of a Venezuelan baby by the T&T Coastguard, he chose to once more engage in lies and distraction to cover up his...

We were sick to our stomachs, with the rest of the country, reading about the terrifying and heart-wrenching ordeal of Ms. Katherine Akum Lum at the hands of the NWRHA. According to one report, “Akum Lum, who was then 51, went to the St James Medical Complex for a hysterectomy on...

The UNC Women’s Arm welcomes the installation of lights at Heights of Aripo, even though it is more than a year after we demanded this and other action to be taken in order to protect our women. The whole country — except, it seems, the Government! — was moved by the...

Since 2018 I have been urging the Rowley led PNM Government to address the humanitarian disaster unfolding on our shores with regard to Venezuelan migrants illegally entering our borders. The Rowley-led Government not only refused to seriously address this grave issue, they flat...

Minister Hinds on today’s Morning Edition with Fazeer Mohammed, declared that his “duty is not to ensure that people feel safe and secure” but merely to provide encouragement, general support, guidance and resources to our security agencies. Heaven help us. We are now witnessing...

We wish the best of luck to Team Trinidad and Tobago at the Beijing Winter Olympics. We know our sports men and women are working against great odds, with little or no support. We want to remind citizens that under Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in the 2012 Olympics Trinidad and Tobago...

The UNC Women’s Arm invites you to attend and cover its “March in Solidarity With Our Women!” The event will occur at Aripo Heights on Saturday 5th February at 5pm.   Tragically, this comes one year after the UNC Women’s Arm’s Candlelight Vigil and prayer service on...

As the Bye-Election for Debe South approaches on Monday 7 February, The Checklist. takes this opportunity to pay tribute former Councillor for the area, the late Purushottam Singh. ==> https://thechecklist.unctt.org/2022/01/28/tribute-to-purushottam-singh-culture-ambassador/...

In May 2020, the Minister of Finance announced via a virtual press conference that the Government would be granting interest free loans to Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSME’s) as part of its COVID-19 relief measures. In July 2020, the initiative was implemented by...