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Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh has boasted of the achievements of the People’s Partnership Government over the past four-plus years in the education sector. In a release last week, Gopeesingh stated his Ministry remains focused, having delivered more than 90 per cent of the...

Government Ministers are expected to provide details on how the adjustments to the policies outlined by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be pursued as a result of falling global oil prices. Persad-Bissessar said yesterday her address to the nation on Thursday night gave...

An Address to the Nation by The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Thursday January 8, 2015. My fellow citizens, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.  When we last spoke on the eve of the New Year, 2015, I made a...

KAMLA Persad-Bissessar, the first woman Prime Minister, will this year seek a second term in office. Elected in 2010 riding a tide of popularity, recent polls have put her party neck and neck with the PNM. But the polls have consistently maintained that notwithstanding the...

Fellow Citizens We are at a point in our nation’s affairs when we are faced with lower energy prices. I was part on a former administration in 1995 when the country also had to be managed with lower energy prices. Despite this we demonstrated that we were up to the task and the...

Fellow citizens, On behalf of the Government and people of Trinidad and Tobago, I extend a very happy and holy Christmas to our Christian Community. Today, worldwide, in celebration of the birth of the Christ child, Christian families will come together in churches and at home to...

FINANCE Minister Larry Howai yesterday said payments in cash and bonds to depositors and shareholders of the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) will cost the State a total of $600 million. In making this disclosure, Howai also revealed that HCU depositors and shareholders who had accounts...

PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is hoping for “good sense to prevail” with the reintroduction of the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, commonly referred to as the “Hanging Bill” saying that researches reveal that wherever the death penalty is enforced the homicide rates...

Youths are overwhelmingly the main victims and perpetrators of crime in the region, said Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development Clifton De Coteau, at the re-opening ceremony of the Laventille Youth Facility, on Laventille Road, Port of Spain. In Trinidad and Tobago, more...

The 2015 general election campaign appears to have started, as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar appealed to United National Congress (UNC) supporters to stand behind whoever was selected to represent the 41 constituencies. Persad-Bissessar addressed the issue during t...

Housing and Urban Development Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal says peace has returned to several crime hotspots across the country because of quality houses provided by the Housing Development Corporation (HDC). Moonilal was speaking at the presentation of keys ceremony for 253...

WHEN Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president gene­ral Ancel Roget was a foreman at Trinmar Ltd, there was an incident where he “exhibited gross carelessness and negligence in the execution of his duties” and almost killed a colleague. In an attempt to cover up the...