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Disciplinary action will be taken against secondary schools who charge registration fees. Minister of Education, Dr Tim Gopeesingh made the statement as the meet with secondary school principals and school supervisors III at the Rudranath Capildeo Learning Resource Center,...

United National Congress Chaguanas West by-election candidate Khadijah Ameen yesterday again claimed thuggery had reared its ugly heading the campaign. She made the comment during a walkabout with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at Cacandee Road, Felicity. She said several...

The PNM’s Chaguanas West Candidate, Avinash Singh, has denied claims that he assaulted a member of the Section 34 Group on Monday. The Section 34 Group has withdrawn its support for Mr. Singh and according to the Group’s General Secretary, Mr. Richard Bickram, Mr....

The following is a message from Prime Minister, the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar on the occasion of Ramadan. Muslims of Trinidad and Tobago connect themselves with the Muslims from all over the world by observing the Holy Month of Ramadan, with fasting and extra worship....

The issue of a $47 million contract that Jack Warner approved for the Airports Authority was first raised by businesman Inshan Ishmael. On Saturday, as part of his comprehensive statement on the matter, the Works and Transport minister offered an explanation of why Ishmael has...

Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley was yesterday deemed to be an unfit leader who must tender his resignation in the face of the emailgate controversy. Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Local Government Minister Suruj Rambachan and National Security adviser to the Prime Minister...

Trinidad and Tobago has obtained further endorsement and recognition for its fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism by its entry on July 3 into the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), a release from Finance and the Economy Minister Larry...

The Leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Mr. Jack Warner, says the Prime Minister needs saving from a ‘cabal’ in the Government. Speaking at his first Cottage Meeting since launching his party in Frederick Settlement, Caroni, Mr. Warner said the cabal...

The word is “no”. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday she will not accept former minister Jack Warner, now turned interim political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), as a partner in her People’s Partnership Government. Last Friday, Warner launched...

Jack Warner has formed a new political party—the Independent Liberal Party (ILP)—to bring down the People’s Partnership Government, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night. Persad-Bissessar said Warner could have contested the Chaguanas West by-election as an...

Faced with expulsion from the United National Congress (UNC), Jack Warner is now turning to his political guru, Basdeo Panday, with a heartfelt apology, but Panday has outrightly rejected it. Warner made the overture to Panday as the two men attended the wedding ceremony of UNC...

Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner has deemed racist the remark by Basdeo Panday that he (Warner) was a monkey on the back of Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Warner, at a meeting in Felicity, Chaguanas Tuesday night, said he was hurt by the statement made by Panday. “For Bas to attack...