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BMI View: A recent stream of new investment into T&T’s struggling hydrocarbon sector supports our modestly more optimistic stance toward the country’s long-term oil and gas production potential. Indeed, while we stress that significant risk remain given a challenging...

PM: The law is clear on a minor having sex.  SEVEN years in prison and a fine of $15,000 is the punishment parents, doctors, nurses, teachers and employers face if they have reason to believe a minor is sexually active and fail to report it to the police. This was the reminder...

THERE were smiles all around from patients, doctors, nurses, medical support staff and South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) officials when the outpatients clinics at the new San Fernando Teaching Hospital officially opened yesterday. The facility, adjacent to the San...

FOREIGN direct investment rose to almost $16.1 billion in 2012, up from $3.5 billion in 2010, according to Minister of Energy Kevin Ramnarine. In a written response to a question filed in the Senate by Independent Senator David Small, Ramnarine linked fiscal incentives in the...

Energy giant BHP Billiton has taken a leap of faith in the potential of the country’s largely untested deep water acreages, committing up to investing US$1 billion to exploration. “BHP Billiton is very optimistic about our business here in Trinidad and Tobago, as it remains an...

The Motor Vehicle Authority (MVA) will be fully operational this September, at a cost of more than $750 million. The MVA will replace the existing Licensing Division. Transport Minister Stephen Cadiz provided an update on the MVA on Friday following the official launch of the...

The Highway Re-Route Movement, and its leader, Wayne Kublalsingh, took public misbehaviour to a new low last week as they did the equivalent of dumping garbage at the gate of the private residence of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. An old tyre lashed to the gate with a...

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...