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The main aim of the competition is to tap into the creative and innovative potential of our citizens, and thereby promote the creation of employment, improve global competiveness and long-term sustainability. The intent is not only to solicit our citizens’ innovative ideas and...

UNC’s Political Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar: “We are celebrating the 25th anniversary with humility and prayers because we, like our great nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago, are founded on moral and spiritual values that recognise the supremacy of God.” POLITICAL LEADER’S...

The Ministry of Education (MoE) wishes to advise that over 90 Government and Government Assisted Schools were repaired as part of the Education Facilities Company Limited’s (EFCL) 2014 Easter Vacation Repair Programme. Repairs effected range from major sewerage and electrical...

PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday gave the assurance that Government is not going to take any unilateral decision to pass legislation in Parliament that will ban parents from punishing children in their homes. The Prime Minister made this clear to reporters after an...

High income levels… Moody’s Investors Service has reaffirmed Trinidad and Tobago’s Baa1 sovereign credit rating based on relatively high income levels, driven by the country’s large and diversified energy sector, Finance Minister Larry Howai said in a release yesterday....

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC this afternoon launched the National Conversation, beginning with an event at the Academy of Nursing and Allied Health in El Dorado. The Prime Minister said, “My leadership style has always been to listen first and then lead. Over the...

Party polls to take place after… The United National Congress (UNC) is awaiting the completion of the final draft of its new constitution before it commits to a date for the party’s internal elections. “We are still awaiting the final draft of the constitution and the...

TRANSPORT Minister Stephen Cadiz yesterday announced Government has been able to lease a new inter-island ferry, MV Super-Fast Galicia, at a cost of $48 million for one year. In making this announcement at the post-Cabinet news conference at the Office of the Prime Minister,...

Trinidad and Tobago is experiencing more robust growth after several years of sub-par performance, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. “With the end of maintenance-related outages in the energy sector, we project the economy will grow around 2.5 per cent in 2014,...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar assured the Spiritual Baptist community that Government would continue to ensure its full inclusion into the national community. In her message to the nation on the occasion of Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day 2014, Persad-Bissessar...

Chandernagore residents were elated to have a new pavilion opened by the Rural Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (RDC) on Sunday. RDC officially opened the $2.91 million Pavilion and Community Activities Centre at the Chandernagore Recreation Ground approximately...

Hundreds of delegates attended a special congress of the United National Congress (UNC) Saturday at the party’s Reinzi headquarters. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar called on the delegates representing all the constituencies in the country to get ready for the battles ahead...