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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...

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....