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The media are invited to the official launch of the Centre for Enterprise Development at Innovation Avenue; Friendship Hall Drive, Freeport where the centre will be formally opened by The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and CARIRI’s Line...

Mulato and Mulato II are improved grasses recently introduced into Trinidad and Tobago.  They are the result of more than twenty (20) years of research by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Columbia.  In 2003, CARDI imported seeds of Mulato and initiated...

CHAIRMAN of the Integrity Commission Ken Gordon has compromised any possible investigation of the email scandal by the Commission by his private meeting with PNM political leader Dr Keith Rowley at his home on May 15 and through his statement issued on Friday and should...

PEOPLE’S National Movement (PNM) chairman Franklin Khan said yesterday the party was clear that no wrongs were committed when Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley met Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon on May 15. Khan addressed reporters yesterday following the party’s general...

Friday’s press release issued by Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon has further compromised the commission’s integrity and independence. Attorney General Anand Ramlogan was commenting on Gordon’s statement, which ended all speculation that he was not going to resign and...

Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine has vowed to take immediate action against gas station owners who police suspect are involved in illegal diesel bunkering. While Ramnarine said he had not received any report that NP officials were linked to the racket he, however, said if it was...

After two months of surveillance, police yesterday uncovered a major diesel-bunkering racket in Sea Lots which led to the arrests of two men who were caught pumping diesel into a storage tank buried under a mound of dirt and concrete. Police said several owners of gas stations...

AS MINISTER of Foreign Affairs in 2005, Knowlson W Gift wrote to the Consul General at New York recommending that a job be given to a clerical officer saying this appointment came “with the blessing of the hierarchy at Balisier House”, documents obtained by Sunday Newsday...

The Integrity in Public Life Act (IPLA) does not give any power to a single member of the Integrity Commission neither does it give any specific power to the chairman except when the commission is duly constituted. So said Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday when he spoke...

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said he was a more worried man after chairman of the Integrity Commission Ken Gordon’s statement about his May 15 meeting with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley. Ramlogan commented on Gordon’s statement yesterday over the so-called secret meeting....

KEN GORDON, 83, yesterday defended his hosting of a private meeting with Opposition and PNM political leader Dr Keith Rowley at his Glencoe home – in the absence of the Integrity Commission Registrar – stating he was exercising powers available to “the Commission” to do as it...

Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday greeted the news of Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon’s decision to remain in office with gladness, but said he had some regrets about the way the May 15 meeting between the two was blown out of proportion. Rowley made the...