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MESSAGE OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, DR TIM GOPEESINGH ON THE REOPENING OF SCHOOL, TERM II OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015. As we move into 2015, the Ministry of Education takes pride and notes our tremendous success over the last 4½ years in its major transformative,...

As we observe Christmas 2014 and even now look to the New Year – we draw strength from the positives of the year gone by with the hope of greater things for 2015. Although this festive season is viewed as the time for giving, from as small as a smile, to letting someone...

Fellow Citizens We are at a point in our nation’s affairs when we are faced with lower energy prices. I was part on a former administration in 1995 when the country also had to be managed with lower energy prices. Despite this we demonstrated that we were up to the task and the...

It was with great alarm that I read the article entitled ‘Government’s 15,000 per diem for journalist’ in the Sunday Express of December 28th. In said article, the author alledged that the named media workers received the per diem whilst accompanying the Prime...

The EMA’s statement clearing Petrotrin from any association with the claim of oil appearing at Otaheite, is welcomed at this time as the Company continues to focus on improved operations with a long view towards securing the Company’s sustainability and its continued...

On Christmas Eve, Petrotrin completed the clean-up of oily water that escaped into the Guaracara River earlier this week. Due to an upset condition on one of the process units in the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery on Sunday 2014 December 21, 15 barrels of oil were discharged from the...

China EXIMBank meets Vasant Bharath, Minister of Finance and the Economy (Ag.) December 16 2014:- On Monday 15th December, 2014, Senator the Honourable Vasant Bharath, the Acting Minister of Finance and the Economy, along with senior Ministry officials, met with a visiting high...

Statement by the Minister of Finance and the Economy, Senator the Honourable Larry Howai: I refer to various recent reports in the media relating to an investigation by the Securities Exchange Commission in 2005—some 10 years ago. The matter involved a number of persons and was...

FOLLOWING repeated calls over recent years, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is hailing the resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Cuba. The Prime Minister’s statement came on the heels of announcements by US President, Barack Obama and...

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan signed a WARRANT OF COMMITTAL (By Consent) which was presented before the Chief Magistrate Ms. Marcia Ayers-Caesar by the Central Authority for the Extradition of Shazam Meighoo, a national of Trinidad and Tobago on Monday 8th December, 2014. This...