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On Wednesday 10th July, 2013 the Minister of the Ministry of the People and Social Development Dr. the Honourable Glenn Ramadharsingh opened the Carlsen Field Homework Centre at Pipecon Road Carlsen Field to residents within the district. This is a pilot project that is the first...

Squatters from across the country came one step closer to peace of mind yesterday. The Land Settlement Agency (LSA) distributed 108 certificates of comfort to squatter families from across the country at City Hall Auditorium, San Fernando. Recipients yesterday were from...

THE Housing Ministry is saying that a sum of up to $15,000 was given to eligible applicants for repairs to their homes last year. A release stated that in the ministry’s Year In Review 2012 Report, it highlighted the benefits citizens received throughout the year through its...

An increase in the pension for judges is on the way. And a review of the ten-year constitutional provision prohibiting judges from resuming private practice. These were among the “ground-breaking and historic” measures announced by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan aimed ...

Government has settled 66 out of 75 collective agreements, Planning Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie said yesterday. As a result of this, the revised sala­ries, cola (Cost of Living Allowance) and allowances bill for the public sector up to 2013 was $8.5 billion, he added. Speaking in...

One of the featured attractions at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment’s Boulevard at TIC 2013 is its award winning TTBizLink Services. The link won the UN’s Public Services Award. TTBizLink is the IT platform known as a Single Electronic Window(SEW), designed as...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has described the first drawing of 500 residential lots under the LSA’s land for the landless programme at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts, (SAPA), as one of her administration’s “signature and creative endeavors” to address the...

THE Town and Country Planning Division (TCPD) has whittled down its applications backlog from thousands to about fewer than one hundred. It has also introduced new systems to bring about efficiency and faster processing of applications.

The Land Settlement Agency (LSA) of the Ministry of Housing on Tuesday handed out 300 Certificates of Comfort to people who had been squatting on state lands for several years, giving them the comfort of knowing that they would finally own a piece of land.

Thirty persons received Certificates of Comfort (CoC) from the Land Settlement Agency on Tuesday night at the Arima Town Hall. Sixteen of the recipients were from Arima, and 14 from Bon Air West. Dr Lincoln Douglas , Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism and MP for Lopinot/...