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As our nation’s hospitals continue to struggle with an increasing workload they have been presented with, the country is on the verge of a different medical crisis, as the Regional Health Authorities have not yet received their allocations for the purchase of pharmaceutical...

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley failed to communicate to the population how his government intends to deal with the negative fallout and impact on the population from increasing food prices as a result of an increase in VAT by 12.5% on hundreds of food items which were previously...

Following the statements made by Mr. Maxie Cuffie during the post-Cabinet press conference yesterday (Thursday 7th January 2015), I am calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, to remove him immediately from the post of Minister of Communications and replace him with...

Chairing of the parliamentary oversight committee on foreign affairs by PNM MP, Marlene Mc Donald with her deputy being Paula Gopee-Scoon sends the wrong signal that, notwithstanding comments to the contrary, this PNM administration is not interested in transparency,...

On behalf of the United National Congress and as Chairman of the UNC, I wish to extend New Year’s greetings to all citizens of our twin-island state as we prepare to face the realities of 2016. As you know, we recently held our internal election in which members of our party...

The statement issued by the Chairman of the PNM Women’s league and Minister of Planning is childish, misinformed and inaccurate. I never at any time in any statement said anything to undermine the Office of the Acting President. What I said was that the PNM Government had...

The UNC strongly condemns the Keith Rowley Government for the backward and atrocious textbook distribution policy as announced by the Minister of Education on a television talk show yesterday. The Minister justified this retrograde move by saying that the Government set to save...

The ability of the former People’s Partnership Government to understand the economic challenges facing the nation and respond decisively with a strong economic plan is largely responsible for the affirmation of the long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating by...

In a statement to the media today, Leader of the Opposition, Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar indicated that she is keenly anticipating the forthcoming address to the nation by Prime Minister Keith Rowley. She noted that the PNM has already begun to speak in veiled language about the...

The United National Congress notes with more than passing concern the un-democratic actions of the Rowley-led PNM administration namely the dismissal of the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Jwala Rambarran. As the PNM continues to victimise employees of the state the country...