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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Saturday announced a 20 per cent discount on selected grocery items as a gift for Divali, which is being celebrated as a national holiday on Thursday. She was speaking at a Divali celebration at her constituency office in Penal. Here is an...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday night detailed this country’s response to the Ebola threat. During a speech at a Divali function at the Diplomatic Centre in Port of Spain, Persad-Bissessar said an Ebola Prevention and Response Team was to be set up,...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has reiterated that as much as she cares for, and was deeply concerned about the well-being of environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh she cannot allow the nation to be held to ransom. “If there were some way I could end this without...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has asked members of the Inter Religious Organisation (IRO) to intervene and save the life of environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh. Today, IRO president Haripersad Maharaj and other IRO members will meet with Kublalsingh at noon outside the...

A CONSTITUTIONAL motion filed in the High Court by the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) challenging the passage of the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2014 has been dismissed with the court saying that it “must never trespass unto the legislature’s domain.” The ILP, led by political...

Speaking from New York where she’s attending a number of high-level events associated with the opening of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said that today’s event marking the achievement of the 50 ratifications needed...

September 25, 2014:- ‘A robust partnership for promoting Trinidad and Tobago’ was the description of the calibre of speakers at and the programme of the Trinidad and Tobago Investment Conference. Making an invaluable contribution to this was Trade, Industry, Investment and...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC, Republic Day message delivered at the Bowling Green Park New York. Good afternoon, What a lovely day in Manhattan, New York. Today is a very special day in Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago celebrates 38 years as a Republic. And,...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday boasted about her Government’s babycare grant initiative at the 69th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA) meeting yesterday. She raised the $500 grant, which was criticised by many for continuing a cycle of...

…orders commission of enquiry into Las Alturas apartments under former housing minister Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley will be a key subject in a commission of enquiry ordered by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday to investigate the Las Alturas housing project in...

New petroleum discoveries would lead to a great future for T&T, said Errol Mahabir, former minister of petroleum and mines, who served in the 1970s under the Eric Williams administration. Mahabir was at the time speaking at the National Energy’s (NE)—formerly National Energy...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Works Stacy Roopnarine yesterday denied the claim made by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley that this Government had stopped work on the Diego Martin Highway when it came into office in 2010. She was speaking in the budget debate in the House...