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The Law Association of Trinidad & Tobago (LATT) has strongly condemned the alleged abuse and vilification of DCP Mervyn Richardson and his wife at a supermarket in east Trinidad on 31st May 2013 by a group of shoppers.

I have noted with concern an article written by Shaliza Hassanali of the Sunday Guardian entitled “VAT OFF FOOD FLOPS”. I wish to put on record the facts as it pertain to the image of Local Food Production and Supply. Data coming out of the Central Statistical Office shows that...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday met with members of the Muslim community who said that they have no objections to the Chaguanas West by-election being held in the month of Ramadan. However, they appealed that it not be held in the last ten days of the holy period...

President of China Xi Jinping has hailed T&T for hosting a grand welcome reception at the Piarco International Airport on Friday. Xi praised the Government as he paid a courtesy call on the Speaker and Senate President at the Parliament in Port-of-Spain, yesterday. Xi was...

Renovations at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Sangre Grande Hospital would not affect any other services of the Hospital, according to the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA). In a press release, the ERHA stated that the Department would be temporarily...

International relations experts say United States vice-president Joe Biden’s whirlwind visit to Trinidad and Tobago, early last week, will ultimately benefit this country, if only to eliminate doubt that the US influence in the region had waned.

CHINA will send 100 medical professionals to Trinidad and Tobago and Caricom over the next three years and will assist in financing arrangements for a new hospital at Arima, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday, after meeting with China’s visiting President...

Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson was forced to flee from a supermarket in East Trinidad on Friday after a group of shoppers began verbally abusing him. Richardson, who was in the company of his wife at about 10 am on Friday, was placing grocery items on his trolley...

The Couva Children’s Hospital will stand on a 60-acre site on lands from the former Caroni (1975) Limited. The estimated cost of construction is US$150 million (TT$ 975M). Funding for the institution is through a Government-to-Government arrangement with China. The Memorandum of...

Magdalena Grand Beach Resort in Tobago has earned its second consecutive Certificate of Excellence award from TripAdvisor. It recognises the resort in the top-performing ten per cent of all businesses worldwide—the resort is ranked number one of all Tobago properties listed—who...

The ties between Trinidad and Tobago and China are set to get stronger as State-owned asphalt production company, Lake Asphalt, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese firm Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproofing Technology Co Ltd.

Trinidad and Tobago and the United States Department of Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate cooperation on scientific, technical and policy aspects of energy efficiency and clean energy technologies through the exchange of ideas and information.