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Be more circumspect and less reckless in statements about the economy and the energy sector. This is the advice Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine had for Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday in Parliament. For the third time in as many days, Ramnarine slammed Rowley for hi...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s leadership of the United National Congress (UNC) has resulted in the party being the most stable it has ever been in history, says Government Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal. All executive posts for the UNC expired on January 24, 2014. The post...

“Bandits, beware!” Following the passage of the Bail Amendment Bill (2013) yesterday in the Senate, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan warned all bandits and criminal elements in the country that they should think again before committing crimes against innocents as jail is certain...

Regional security and trade will be on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s agenda when she leaves today to attend the third Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Havana, Cuba. She will join several other heads of state from 33 member countries in...

ON Friday the final shipment of relief items from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) will be sent to St Vincent and St Lucia, following devastating floods on Christmas Eve. In a release yesterday, the ODPM announced that the shipment will leave the Port of...

State oil company Petrotrin has to date paid out close to $3 million in compensation to those affected by the oil spills in the southwestern peninsula, Minister of Energy Kevin Ramnarine has said. Addressing Parliament at Tower D, International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain on...

ATTORNEY GENERAL (AG) Anand Ramlogan will this week write to the Opposition to propose a meeting for next week to talk about anti-crime legislation, in the wake of public disquiet over 20 murders occurring in the first week of 2014. However, talking yesterday to Newsday, Ramlogan...

…On 69 charges, held in Canada after fleeing Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has “successfully facilitated” the return of Trinidadian Raymond Fran­cis from Canada to face a $5.5 million fraud charge in this country. Francis is wanted in Tobago regarding 69 unrelated...

PETROTRIN chairman, Lindsay Gillette, yesterday declared there was “strong evidence” which suggests that two of the 11 oil spills which occurred over the last two weeks were acts of sabotage. However, he said the exact causes of all these spills remain unclear, and under...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is to be congratulated for rising above her early blunders to assume Trinidad and Tobago’s leadership responsibility to distressed members of the Caricom family. The quick response of support to storm ravaged St Lucia and St Vincent has gone...

The headlines tended to mislead: “Street dwellers to be removed” implied that the measure, tried and failed for years, was to round-up street dwellers and cart them off to St Ann’s for virtual incarceration. The problem of vagrancy has been a blot on our society for far too long....

Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine says 2014 will be the best for natural gas production in T&T in three years. Speaking  at the National Gas Company’s (NGC) Christmas Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Ramnarine said 2013 will go down as the year the NGC was  transformed from a...