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As the national Olympic Team gets set to compete in this year’s Games in Rio, I offer my best wishes to all our athletes. Trinidad and Tobago won one Gold and three Bronze medals in London in 2012 and placed 47 out of 79 in the standings in the Games. That was a remarkable...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath in a press release criticized the move by government to make changes to the GATE Program. Padarath said that the announcement made by the government will see two things happening in the tertiary education sector. First he expects that there will be...

MP for Naparima Rodney Charles is calling on Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley to immediately suspend his vacation and state clearly T&T’s policy regarding the close monitoring of home-grown jihadists intent on fighting alongside ISIS. And he must also state what action...

Emancipation Day 2016 comes at a time when our individual and collective freedoms must be redefined, given the direction to which our nation has turned. It must be redefined by a renewed commitment from those who govern to ensure that freedoms are not only assured, but robustly...

I am totally convinced at this time that government is continuously failing at fighting crime in Trinidad and Tobago as the murder rate has climbed to 262 for the year thus far. This weekend is the second recorded bloody weekend in recent time with 5 murders in 13 hours following...

I am happy to learn that the Government has agreed to pay out the EU money collected by Government some time ago to Cane Farmers. I wrote the Minister of Planning and Development 3 weeks ago asking that she indicate the date of disbursement for farmers. She has not yet replied...

As Member of Parliament for Pointe a Pierre together with the Women’s Arm of my Constituency I will be hosting a Walk against Crime on Saturday 30th July 2016 from 8:30 am to 11:00am. I invite you all to join me as we walk from the Macaulay Recreation Ground to the Claxton...

“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement” – Nelson Mandela. In 1833 Thomas Buxton presented the Emancipation Bill in British Parliament, and on August 1st 1834 the Act was passed and British West Indian slaves were granted freedom. On August 1st...

PRINCES TOWN MP Barry Padarath slammed Prime Minister Keith Rowley for going on vacation just short of one year of coming into office. Padarath stated that while he understood that the office holder was entitled to taking vacations, he felt that the timing was all wrong and...

Unable to develop plans to take us forward our Government appears at sea differentiating critical issues from frivolous pursuits. Our CARICOM neighbours have been lobbying for regional action to be taken to ensure that our banks do not suffer the consequences of de-risking. Our...