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A former Peoples National Movement (PNM) local government candidate for Barrackpore West has stepped out of the race and crossed the floor to the United National Congress (UNC). Indar Jairaj appeared on the UNC platform in Debe on Friday night and was introduced by Housing...

PICKING up where he left off on Friday night, a fiery Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal on Saturday night at a UNC local government elections campaign meeting, again cautioned the public on voting blindly for candidates selected by the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), whom he...

DEPUTY Leader of the United National Congress (UNC) Roodal Moonilal has claimed that a second candidate from the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) for the upcoming local government elections is a deportee. Moonilal told UNC supporters during a political meeting in Debe on Friday...

ALTHOUGH the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) announced it would field candidates at all 136 local government districts in the upcoming elections, checks yesterday revealed that for at least six districts, no ILP candidate was actually nominated by that party. While it has been...

Kerwin Bucchan, one of the Independent Liberal Party’s (ILP) candidates for the local government elections, was granted $250,000 bail yesterday on the charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition and shooting with intent. Police prosecutor Sgt Shiva Boodoo told the court he...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday her time spent at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, Barbados, moulded her as a leader and a person who dared to pursue change for the betterment of the people. She was delivering the feature address at...

Jack Warner’s Independent Liberal Party (ILP) is using candidates with criminal backgrounds—including a US deportee—and this will set a dangerous precedent of criminals infiltrating the political system if successful, UNC deputy leader Roodal Moonilal has alleged. Speaking at a...

AN Independent Liberal Party (ILP) local government candidate has pulled out of the election race. On Friday, Regon Boxhill, who was vying for the Mon Repos/Navet seat, officially withdrew by submitting relevant documents to the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) office at...

Acting Prime Minister Dr. Roodal Moonilal is questioning the suitability of the ILP candidates contesting the Local Government Elections. Speaking with reporters after the opening of the 1st National Diversity Symposium on Friday, he expressed concern that unsuitable candidates...

INTERIM political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) Jack Warner last night broke his silence on the arrest and laying of charges against an ILP local government election candidate, telling a political meeting in San Juan that he and the party are fully backing the...

Charges: Possession of gun, ammo, shooting with intent Kerwin Bucchan, Independent Liberal Party (ILP) candidate for the local government elections, was remanded in prison custody by a magistrate yesterday on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition and shooting with...

BP’s CEO Bob Dudley said yesterday that T&T is important in to the energy giant global production portfolio. “I know T&T is a small country in the energy sector but it is a success story for BP. I am happy to see the progress of T&T in the energy sector. BP’s...