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TERTIARY Education and Skills Training Minister Fazal Karim yesterday launched the Metal Industries Company’s (MIC) first ever welding caravan at MIC headquarters Century Drive, Trincity Industrial Estate in Macoya. In delivering the feature address, Karim described the Caravan...

Central farmers no longer have to get up at 3 am to go to Tunapuna or Port-of-Spain to sell their produce. From next week, the farmers will be wholesaling their produce at their own Central Farmers’ Wholesale Market at Woodford Lodge, Chaguanas. The newly-renovated 22,680 square...

THE STATE has allocated 500 acres of land at Felicity for the production of $6 million in rice annually, Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj announced yesterday. “Rice has been identified as a key staple to be targeted for increased local production,” Maharaj said, speaking...

The governments of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expressed their commitment to the advancement of the process of Unitization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs between the two Republics. The Unitization process seeks to develop important...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC visited 11 temples in her Siparia constituency between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in observance of the Hindu festival of Maha Shiva Raatri. The celebration started shortly after 9 pm on Tuesday and ended around 4.30 am on...

With videos of students engaged in bullying and other acts of violence at the nation’s schools increasingly finding its way onto social media, Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar yesterday revealed that Education Minister, Dr Tim Gopeesingh had been asked to present the...

Trinidad & Tobago is among the top 10 countries showing the most improvement in the World Bank’s 2015 edition of “ease of doing business” study due out in November. A World Bank release said Wednesday (October 29): “Trinidad & Tobago, among the 10...

26th January, 2015 The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the...

On January 13, a 37-year-old woman spent 20 hours under the knife at the San Fernando General Hospital to remove a brain tumour almost the size of a table tennis ball. The high-risk surgery was performed by specialist neurosurgeons who came from the other side of the world—a team...

Twelve years after the closure of the sugar cane industry, Cabinet has finally approved $130 million compensation for cane farmers to be used for agricultural diversification. The funds were provided by the European Union (EU) to address the negative social and economic impact of...

Minister of Education Dr Tim Gopeesingh said yesterday citizens must not accept what he described as deliberate and mischievous propaganda that the People’s Partnership Government was not working in constituencies held by the People’s National Movement (PNM). Gopeesingh was...

THE former PNM government twice abandoned the country and people in times of crisis caused by ‘their own brand of busto’nomics’ that destabilised the national economy. This is how Minister of Trade, Industry, Investment and Communication, Vasant Bharath, described the state of...