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Today I join the global community and all our citizens in marking World Cancer Day, with a commitment to the slogan: “We can; I can”, which is a call to action for communities and individuals to do whatever they can to reduce the global burden of cancer. Every year 8.2 million...

Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath has called for the Ministry of Education to implement Anti Bullying measures in our nation’s schools. Padarath said he was deeply disturbed to read of an incident involving nine year old Tristan Khan at the Mayaro Government Primary School...

Good afternoon.   Like so many of our citizens, I am alarmed by the upsurge in violence in the country, with 52 murders (7 unclassified) recorded in just 30 days – the highest in January of any year.  Trinidad and Tobago is in a state of crisis and it is imperative...

Trinidad and Tobago has already recorded 43 murders for the first 25 days of the year. If this alarming rate continues, the country could see as many as 628 murders in 2017, significantly higher than the previous record of 550 in 2008 under a PNM administration. The Rowley-led...

The Board of Directors of The CEPEP Company Limited must now resign after a High Court struck down an attempt to prevent me from exposing corruption and other wrongdoing at the company. The taxpayer-owned company had gone to Court to seek to silence me, through a frivolous claim...

Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Prime Minister Keith Rowley continues to show that he is incapable of dealing with the country’s crime menace. “While Rowley tries to deflect and shift the blame to others, our citizens no longer feel safe in their...

1. I make this statement without prejudice to my firm belief that the legal age for consent to marriage should be eighteen (18) years. 2. In all of the circumstances I call on the Attorney General to disclose the following in the public interest:   The oath of each...

The recent murder of 16 year old Rachel Ramkissoon further demonstrates the decay of our society and evolution of our Twin Island Republic into a land of lawlessness where there is no respect for human life as yet another young girl has been robbed of a bright future and life of...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath has called on Prime Minister Keith Rowley to remove Dr. Rolph Balgobin, as Chairman of the CLF Board pending an investigation. Padarath stated that Rowley in the past had called on former Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, to remove persons from...

In his address to the nation the Prime Minister has asked the Population if they are “up to the task of grasping these exciting possibilities” as it relates to future decisions on Petrotrin’s future. The nation must now demand a clarion response to what are...

Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath slammed the Chairman and board of UDECOTT for breaching the Freedom of Information Act. Padarath indicated that one of his constituency executive members filed a Freedom of Information application asking who were the contractors awarded work on the...

Leader of the Opposition and Member of Parliament for Siparia, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, will address Parliamentarians from around the Commonwealth at the first ‘Regional Hot Topics Forum’ hosted by the Caribbean Americas and Atlantic Region (CAAR) of the Commonwealth...