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THE United National Congress (UNC) has not yet started screening members for the upcoming local elections, but has already received 200 nominations for potential candidates, deputy political leader Rupert Griffith said on Thursday. And the party is confident it will win the local...

LIONEL LUCKHOO, an attorney for Lawrence Duprey, yesterday released a letter knocking Attorney General Anand Ramlogan for calling Duprey, “a wanted man” during the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing last Thursday. But in an immediate response, Ramlogan via his lawyer Donna...

Has former CL Financial executive chairman Lawrence Duprey made surreptitious visits to Trinidad and Tobago during the life of the subpoena to attend the commission of enquiry into CLICO? This is the question that Attorney General Anand Ramlogan wants the Immigration authorities...

There’s a lot of press freedom in T&T! That’s the pronouncement of Allison Bethel-Mckenzie head of the International Press Institute. Bethel-Mckenzie had the last word on T&T’s much debated press freedom status hours before she left T&T on Thursday, just ahead of...

The two-day work stoppage on construction of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin would have no significant impact on the completion of the multi-billion-dollar project, newly-appointed Minister of Works and Infrastructure Suruj Rambachan said yesterday. Rambachan...

I write in response to Keith Subero’s column of April 9 to correct certain inaccuracies and misstatements and provide clarification. It is incorrect and mischievous to describe the settlement of the OPV arbitration as a simple “return of Trinidad and Tobago’s downpayment”. 

The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has today, Wednesday 1st May, 2013, delivered a statement on the Libel and Defamation Act at a Press Conference at the Office of the Prime Minister, St. Clair.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Wednesday announced that Trinidad and Tobago would drop the criminal prosecution of journalists under Section 9 of the Libel and Defamation Act for the malicious publication of any defamatory libel.

The National Executive (NATEX) of the United National Congress (UNC) meets on Wednesday at the party’s headquarters to discuss the situation that has developed as a result of the resignation of Jack Warner as the MP for Chaguanas West.

Garvin Nicholas has been voted ‘Ambassador of the Year’. Garvin Nicholas has won the coveted Ambassador of the Year from the Americas Award in his role as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.High Commissioner Nicholas was nominated and voted for by his peers in...

Senator the Honourable Devant Maharaj, Minister of Food Production said that staff of the Ministry of Food Production have begun visiting the farming community adversely affected by recent heavy rainfall to begin their assessment to schedule relief to affected farmers. Minister...

Executive Director of IPI, Ms. Alison Bethel McKenzie, pays courtesy call on Attorney General, Anand Ramlogan, SC, to discuss upcoming World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2013.