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It comes as no surprise that the long controversial NiQuan plant will be shutting down operations. What is painful is that because of mismanagement at the plant, which is a pet PNM project beginning with the failed gas to liquids plant under Malcolm Jones, seventy-five (75)...

Member of Parliament for St. Augustine Ms. Khadijah Ameen is warning Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Mr. Faris Al Rawi to stop ill advising Regional Corporations to misappropriate funds. The warning comes after bizarre comments were made by the Minister in an...

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is farse and outta place to compare his international joyrides with Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s foreign investment and other business trips. Rowley’s immoral and wasteful foreign trips, valued at $10.6 million for three years – an average of $300,000...

Before the 2015 general elections, the Elections and Boundaries Commission submitted a report in which it recommended alterations to the boundaries of ten (10) constituencies in Trinidad’s electoral area, one of which was San Fernando West. I quote from the 2015 orde...

Political unity is often foreshadowed by discord, discussion, and restructuring. As a foundation member and current Chairman of the United National Congress, I am extremely proud to note the strides that the party has made in widening and broadening its base and, particularly in...

The UNC will continue to be a party of tolerance and love for all religions, ethnicities and cultures under my leadership. Our great party is open to all people, from all walks of life and everyone’s belief’s, faiths, morals and values must be respected as all are equally...

Assalamu Alaikum With the arrival of the new crescent moon, Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago, and across the globe will be celebrating the sacred and significant festival of Eid-ul-Fitr. I wish them a very safe, happy holiday. Today ends the holy month of Ramadan, a time of renewal...

After a couple days of scattered “April showers” earlier this week, MP for Oropouche West, Dave Tancoo is again warning that severe flooding in significant parts of his Constituency is imminent as a result of the failure of the Ministry of Works and Transport to get their act...

On the heels of intense, consistent pressure from the UNC over their highly questionable refusal to lay the 2024 EBC Boundaries Report in Parliament, the Rowley Government has now capitulated to our demands. This follows my recent threats of legal action and a formal query to the...

The collapse of the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Services is another crushing indictment on the spectacularly failed Fitzgerald Hinds as Minister of National Security. Hinds has given repeated assurances in and out of Parliament of the provision of critical fire-fighting equipment...

It is outrageous and truly bereft of basic human compassion that yet again Paria is in the news promoting its corporate sponsorship of an NGO/CBO entity via the use of taxpayer’s money, but continues to ignore, disregard, and fail to offer any help to the families of the divers...

Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath said that the contents of a report in yesterday’s Business Guardian headlined “RIC Recommends Doubling of Electricity Rates by 2028” is deeply troubling and worrisome for the people of Trinidad and Tobago. The MP said that this...