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Former national security minister Jack Warner was an “exceptional” minister and the driving force to make the police service more efficient and effective. So said acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams who paid glowing tribute to Warner yesterday. The acting top cop was...

JACK Warner, 70, last night announced that he will today advise Speaker of the House of Representatives Wade Mark of his resignation from Parliament as Chaguanas West MP effective midnight tonight, in the process triggering the holding of a bye-election for the seat within 90...

Chaguanas West Member of Parliament Jack Warner addressed his constituents at a meeting at the Pierre Road Recreation Ground in Charlieville on Thursday night, as he sought to clear the air on his recent resignation as National Security Minister and chairman of the United...

Trinidad and Tobago and Canada have agreed to co-host a CARICOM Public-Private Partnerships Seminar and business-to-business meetings in Port-of-Spain later this year. This is one of the issues noted in a joint statement issued by Prime Ministers Kamla Persad-Bissessar and...

At the invitation of the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, is on an official visit to Canada from April 23-27. Canada and Trinidad and Tobago, hemispheric and Commonwealth...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has a busy day in Ottawa Thursday as she continues her 4-day visit to Canada. It includes a courtesy call on Governor General David Johnson, a visit to Parliament Hill, a private meeting with her Canadian host, Prime Minister Stephen Harper....

Member of Parliament for Couva North, the Honourable Ramona Ramdial together with the National Gas Company (NGC) and Habitat for Humanity Trinidad & Tobago (HFHTT) constructed a home for the White family of Carli Bay, Couva and officially dedicated it on Tuesday. Ramdial had...

THE annual human rights report out of the US Department of State has cleared this country of having any problems related to freedom of the press, the Government Information Services Ltd (GISL) stated on Monday. In a media release, GISL said the report, which looks at human rights...

SAYING that 73 percent of the population supports the death penalty, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar urged the Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) to support the Capital Offences Bill which is expected to be brought back to Parliament as one of Government’s crime...

Former leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) and Labour Minister Errol McLeod says he will not leave the Government. In a strong condemnation of his former party colleagues, McLeod described the MSJ as indisciplined. He said the MSJ left the Government because those in...

Temporary Government Senator, Mr. Wayne Sturge, says the traditional role of the army is changing. In his maiden contribution to the debate on the Miscellaneous Provisions Defence and Police Complaints Bill 2013 in the Upper House on Tuesday, the attorney said it is not a...

One day after he was appointed Minister of National Security, Emmanuel George said he intends to tackle the crime problem “head-on”. And, his successor, Local Government Minister Suruj Rambachan, said he was “saddened” by the resignation of his former Cabinet colleague, Jack...