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Huang Xingyuan, Chinese Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, yesterday expressed the view that there was no shame in the protocol shown during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jingping as the President deeply appreciates the warmth and hospitality of the Government and people of...

TWO needy families from Couva North officially received homes through the National Commission for Self Help Limited’s (NCSHL) Starter House Programme on Sunday. Prematie Jhurisingh, a cancer patient and single mother from Derrick Road, Chase Village had a two bedroom house...

House Speaker Wade Mark did not act prematurely by acceding to the Prime Minister’s request to refer Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley to the Privileges Committee over the Section 34 email scandal. On Monday, the PNM Tobago Council called on the Chairman of the Privileges...

The Mt. Hope Women’s Hospital has been upgraded to make it more patient-friendly. The Minister of Health, Dr. Fuad Khan, toured the facilities on Tuesday and was pleased with the improvements. An elevator that was “out of order” for nine months has been...

The United National Congress congratulates the Honourable Prime Minister for the leadership she has shown in the past week in handling the visits of the international leaders – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and the President of China, Xi Jinping.

Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Winston Dookeran, signed the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations on Monday morning. The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first-ever Treaty on Global Arms Trade in April this year. The Treaty seeks to regulate the $70...

To help avoid a recurrence of the devastating floods of last year which left two persons dead, the Chairman of the Diego Martin Regional Corporation, Mr. Anthony Sammy, says utilising technology is an option.

Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley will appear before the House of Representatives Privileges Committee soon. This after the House of Representatives Privileges Committee convened at Tower D of the Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre shortly after 10am on Monday.

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...