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The dream of owning a home will be easier to achieve as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced last night a Cabinet-approved mortgage plan for people earning less than $8,000. Speaking at the United National Congress (UNC) public meeting at the Barataria community centre...

Address by Minister Kevin Ramnarine at the signing of the Agreement for the Methanol to Di methyl ether (DME) petrochemical plants Good morning and “Ohayou” to our friends from Japan. Today we meet to sign the Project Development Agreement for the Methanol to Di methyl ether...

LAVENTILLE residents are thankful for the joint army and police patrols and hope it can continue as peace has returned to their area with the patrols being resumed. The joint patrols have been in effect for more than a month after an increase in criminal activity in the area....

Muser Stoute wants to learn skills that could help him do his own electrical wiring, technological work and improve his talents. It was for this reason the 19-year-old has enrolled with the Youth Training and Employment Partnership Programme (YTEPP). Stoute, who lives in Moruga,...

Sangre Grande residents agree with councillor Dayne Francois that despite the eastern community having the highest unemployment rate in the country, crime remains at an all time low. Francois, the Sangre Grande North/West councillor, speaking at a legitimacy exercise in the...

Joint letter from Mrs. Alison Bethel McKenzie, IPI Executive Director and Mr. Wesley Gibbings, President of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers. The Honourable Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan, MP Member for Tabaquite Minister of Local Government Vienna, April 4, 2013 Dear Dr....

Minister of Local Govt toured the constituency of Moruga Tableland with MP Clifton De Couteau and Councillors of the  Princes Town Regional Corporation  to have firsthand look at road conditions and landslips. The collapse of a house as shown in the photograph is but one of...

National Security Minister Jack Warner, in a fighting mood yesterday, said even though the Miscellaneous Provisions (Defence and Police Complaints) Bill was shot down by the independent senators, he believes it will make a successful comeback. Speaking with reporters at his...

JUSTICE Mira Dean-Armorer’s judgment is a “resounding answer” to those who questioned whether passage of Section 34 was Government’s attempt to create a loophole to benefit United National Congress financiers Ish Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson. So stated Attorney General Anand...

Dear Ms Marajh, If I choose to answer any one of your questions (as shown below) wrapped within your own expression of opinions and false judgment what I would be doing is validating character assassination posing as investigative journalism. If one is asked a question on matters...

The country’s lifeguards are expressing gratitude to Tourism Minister Stephen Cadiz, for keeping his promise to pay them their backpay, which they began to receive yesterday. An estimated 200 lifeguards and 50 maintenance workers had threatened to withhold their services over the...

ATTORNEY General Anand Ramlogan yesterday called on Chief Justice Ivor Archie to immediately convene an ad hoc or special criminal court to try all of the accused in the Piarco corruption cases to once and for all put a full stop to the saga. Ramlogan made the call yesterday in...