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Housing Minister, Dr Roodal Moonilal has described the Housing Development Corporation’s (HDC), Fairfield Housing Community as the first “farmer friendly” housing estate, which would include warehousing and vendor facilities, as well as housing units at the estate. Speaking with...

Minister of Food Production, Senator the Honourable Devant Maharaj, is pleased to announce that the food price inflation rate, as calculated by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago for the period January to April, 2014 has remained at 4.1%. Maintaining a reading of 4.1%...

There is NO FEAR, no one is above the law… Media Interview with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Hon Kamla Persad Bissessar, SC,MP In a hard-hitting exclusive Q&A with the Sunday Guardian, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar did not hold...

By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies is pioneering an ambitious online learning project. Coursera, one of the biggest online university course providers, is forming a partnership with the government to provide a network of...

A school opening in Penal that means much more for many students in the area, not just because traveling to distant places to get an education will be a thing of the past, but because the newly opened MIC Technology Centre could provide a way out of poverty. The official opening...

The main campus for COSTAATT (College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago) will be moved from Melville Lane, Port of Spain (where it has been since its inception ten years ago) and relocated to Chaguanas where a new “expansive” $168 million facility is...

For the first time since 2011, more citizens of Trinidad and Tobago approve of the job Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is doing than those who don’t, a new opinion poll has shown. Commissioned by the Trinidad Express, the poll conducted by local company Solution by...

ANOTHER 500 landless people were chosen yesterday, becoming eligible to own residential lots if they meet the criteria of the Government’s Land for the Landless programme. The applicants turned up at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts in San Fernando for a “random...

YOUNG people in Trinidad & Tobago now have the opportunity to create the kind of country they want by contributing their ideas for Government’s policy and implementation programmes Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said on Wednesday evening. The Prime Minister was at the...

PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC has engaged supermarket owners from across the country to “work together to ensure all citizens can afford themselves everything they need to sustain healthy families.” Speaking following another round of the National Conversation...

The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) hosted a ceremony to mark the installation of $785,288.00 in lights at the Exchange Recreation Ground, Couva on Tuesday. Public Utilities Minister, Nizam Baksh said “The illumination of recreation grounds, parks and...

My dear young citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, despite the many challenges we have had to face in the last few days and my extensive schedule of responsibilities, I am mindful that tomorrow, Thursday 8th of May 2014, is a particularly important day in the life of your education...