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Trinidad and Tobago has been at the mercy of this incompetent Keith Rowley administration for 23 months, during which time, crime has escalated, the economy is in shambles, there has been significant job losses, cuts to education and health care is in crisis. In the face of this...

Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat’s family visit to the shooting range of the Police Academy once more unveils the obsession of government ministers with personal security while the rest of the society remains unprotected from rampaging criminals. While law-abiding citizens...

Minister of Education Anthony Garcia is further punishing the nation’s tertiary students with dark threats of means testing to access Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) mere weeks before the start of the new semester. Mr. Garcia is compounding the severe cuts to...

“A scandal of the highest order, which reeks of mismanagement and corruption, and which warrants a police investigation.” This, according to Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, regarding the Government’s handling of the procurement of the Ocean Flower 2...

The revelation of a shortage of red sand, an essential ingredient in the construction industry, further showcases the incompetence, rampant mismanagement and absence of priorities of the Rowley regime. It also prompts an additional challenge to the declaration by Minister of...

Former transport minister Devant Maharaj is calling on the Integrity Commission to investigate the procurement process by the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (PATT) for the inter-island ferry services between Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking to the Express, Maharaj said the...

Government ordered by the High Court to appoint members of the Protective Services Compensation Committee Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP has succeeded in her fight against the government to appoint a Protective Services Compensation Committee for members of the...

It is quite disappointing that after five months the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) has not paid its bills for the Tobago Jazz Festival. It is a further insult that all the foreign artistes were paid but local artistes are still getting the run-around for payments. This fact...

Today we recognize and celebrate the courage, the will and enduring spirit of those who fought for and won their freedom from slavery. Today none of us can truly understand the atrocities that slaves faced at the hands of those who were comfortable with treating fellow humans as...

The Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) Programme was introduced in 2004 as a replacement to the UNC’s Dollar-for-Dollar Education Plan which started in 2001. Up until 2015 successive Governments recognised the value of education, be it at the pre-primary, primary,...

Brigadier General Rodney Smart cannot continue in office as the Chief of Defence Staff after the shocking revelation today by the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force in the matter of the how children of the Attorney General came to be in possession of high powered weapons at the...

Today the Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC, MP was successful in her application seeking permission to apply for judicial review against the Children’s Life Fund Authority. Mrs. Persad Bissessar led the legal team representing Opposition Senator Wayne Sturge in...