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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.

PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar congratulated Trade Minister Vasant Bharath for his Ministry’s TT BIZLink scheme winning a top United Nations (UN) award for innovative governance. News of the win came at the UNC’s Monday Night Forum at Tunapuna Hindu Primary School, in the...

PRESIDENT of China Xi Jinping will get a first hand view this afternoon at the proposed site of the Couva Children’s Hospital which is being funded by the China Exim Bank under a government to government arrangement with this country. It will be one of the many stops by the...

By Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is honoured to host His Excellency Xi Jinping, of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on his first visit to this region since being elected President of the PRC. This state visit by His Excellency to...

The Ministry of Works and Infrastructure in its bid to provide pedestrian safety for and around the Sea Lots Community has established a pedestrian Safety Zone (the ASHARA Safety Zone) spanning from Abbatoir Road and Production Drive at the Port-of-Spain Eastern Market to the Old...