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Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar has written to the Prime Minister inviting him to meet to discuss the Miscellaneous Provisions (Anti-Gang and Bail) Bill 2016 and the burgeoning crime crisis in Trinidad and Tobago. In a statement issued Thursday, the...

In our first 120 days in office we established the Children’s Life Fund to help sick children; in its first 9 months the Rowley Administration took $2.5 Billion from the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund. On September 7th 2015 Dr. Keith Rowley called upon the people of Trinidad and...

Colm Imbert refuses to tell the nation what $2.5 Billion of withdrawn HSF monies will be used for -maybe we should ask the junior minister of everything. On Monday Night I took the Rowley Government to task for secretly withdrawing $2.5 Billion from the Heritage and Stabilisation...

Yet again, the Honourable Attorney General has demonstrated that he does not understand basic constitutional law principles when he stated erroneously that the fact that the SSA Amendment Bill was assented to by His Excellency must mean “he [the President] thought it must...

One hundred and seventy-one years later we have become the inheritors of a nation which our forefathers helped to build and, it is our duty is to continue to do our part as preservers of what has been achieved as well as creators and guardians of the future. In numerous ways our...

Today at a media briefing, held at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, Leader of the Opposition announced that she wrote letters to the Acting Commissioner of Police, Director of Public Prosecution and the Director of the...

As Chairman of the United National Congress I believe that the heart of the nation is bleeding through the effects of crime while the Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley continues to show an absence of strategy or political will to implement any sustainable and effective crime...

Even as we celebrate mothers and motherhood all the year round, the occasion of Mother’s Day brings with it a distinct significance, where we go beyond our duty to honour our mothers, and dedicate our love, care and devotion to the central role they play in our daily lives....

Twenty-seven years ago, tens of thousands of patriotic citizens gathered at the National Stadium in Port of Spain on April 30, 1989 – to formally launch the United National Congress. Today as we celebrate the UNC’s 27th anniversary I thank God for all those courageous...

PAY the million-dollar compensation to the families of police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, and do it as a matter of urgency. This is the call from Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, speaking on Parliament Friday. Persad-Bissessar was at the...

Former President of National Infrastructure Development Company (NEDCO) Dr Carson Charles responds to Minister in the Office of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Stuart Young statements on the construction of the Solomon Hochoy Highway to Point Fortin The Facts: 1. On May...

As Chairman of the United National Congress it is my view that the recent statements of support made by the Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee Scoon on the completion of the Tarouba Stadium as opposed to the completion of schools and other public institutions are ironic,...