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Tourism Minister, Shamfa Cudjoe’s announcement to dissolve the Tourism Development Company (TDC) adds scores to the number of persons who have been left unemployed since the PNM has been in government. Approximately 150 TDC employees are now threatened to be on the breadline...

Minister of Education Anthony Garcia must be held responsible for the on-going crisis at Ste. Madeleine Secondary School, which descended into the stoning of teachers this week. For months there have been unease, including sporadic incidents of violence, at that institution. Some...

Wednesday March 8th, 2017 marks International Women’s Day – and we in Trinidad and Tobago join hands and hearts with women across the globe in celebrating the tremendous positive achievements forged by our womenfolk. On March 8th, we in Trinidad and Tobago join with women...

In keeping with the theme of International Women’s Day 2017, ‘Be Bold For Change’; Couva North MP, Ramona Ramdial calls upon women in Trinidad & Tobago to be bold and report abusers. “Our women have become victims of increasing crime, primarily domestic violence resulting in...

On International Women’s Day, I take the opportunity to share with women here and elsewhere our agonies, hopes, and convictions that by our action we can make a better future for women. Women have been defined by patriarchal men. We have been defined as objects outside ourselves,...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath, in a press release slammed Attorney General Farris Al Rawi and members of the government for not leading by example with respect to the Attorney General’s statements that he will be bringing Explain Your Wealth legislation to the Parliament....

The statements of the Attorney General (AG) yesterday have shown that he is most unfit for the office. His whining about doing away with the Special Majority requirement to pass legislation in the Parliament cannot be accepted in a democracy like ours. A special majority...

Prime Minister Rowley should apologise rather than defend his recent statements regarding victims of domestic violence. His language was poor and crass and his response should have been more solution oriented. It is not the habit to put victims in spotlight but rather to deal...

The Honourable Prime Minister’s statement that “I am not in your bedroom ,I am not in your choice of men.” is outrageous and an insult to the women of this country. Dr Rowley is obviously ignorant of the cultural, psychological, and economic factors that explain...

In response to questions on the spike in violence, the Prime Minister divided serious crime into one third domestic violence and the rest non-domestic, immediately washing his hands of any accountability for domestic violence, exclaiming: ‘I am not in your bedroom. I am not in...