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The Ministry of the People and Social Development has provided 700 hampers and other relief supplies including blankets, purification tablets and buckets to residents who were severely affected by flooding caused by incessant and heavy rain showers in areas of east and central...

THE Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) will soon be able to boost its power supply to customers throughout the country. A $100 million substation at Gandhi Village, Debe, expected to be completed in December would allow T&TEC to utilise full capacity of...

GOVERNMENT and the World Bank will embark on a US$2.4 million programme featuring “high impact” programmes to fulfil the country’s national aspiration of a digital and e-ready Trinidad and Tobago. The plan was announced on Monday by Ingrid Seerattan, Permanent Seretary in the...

Former T&T ambassador to the United Nations, Rodney Charles is back home to lead the election campaign for the ruling People’s Partnership administration in the run-up to the 2015 general election. Charles is convinced the PP will retain political office because the PNM has...

ENERGY Minister, Kevin Ramnarine, hit back at Diego Martin North East MP Colm Imbert’s criticism of the country’s oil/gas tax regime by saying this Government’s major overhaul of energy taxes and incentives had led to a three- fold increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar believes the Caribbean Community (Caricom) needs to come together to deal with the potential threat that the Ebola virus poses to the region. The Prime Minister was addressing Caricom Heads of Government before the start of the 17th special...

Reports of a reduction in crime in Port of Spain are coming from business people in the capital city. During the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s launch of its annual Safe City crime initiative for the Christmas season yesterday, Downtown Owners and Merchants Association...

T&T is among the top ten countries showing the most improvement in the World Bank’s 2015 edition of the Ease of Doing Business” study due out in November. A new World Bank Group report states: “T&T, among the ten top improvers worldwide in this year’s report, made...

A three-man commission of enquiry, headed by retired Justice Mustapha Ibrahim, into the PNM administration’s Las Alturas project will determine if there are grounds for criminal or civil action concerning the dead-ended $40 million project, says Attorney General Anand Ramlogan....

Kamla: Parliament sitting in November was always our plan As she announced Parliament would resume sittings next week Friday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday chastised Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley for his comments that Government had abandoned Parliament. The...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar continues to express concern about the Highway Re-Route Movement’s (HRM) “its unwillingness to abide with the rulings of the court” on the group’s objections to matters related to construction of the Debe to Mon Desir section of the Point...

Fellow citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, Today, our nation celebrates the joyous occasion of Divali, the festival of lights. On behalf of the people and Government, I extend to the Hindu community “Shubh Divali”. May Mother Lakshmi shower us all with her blessings of prosperity,...