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By SEAN DOUGLAS Saturday, March 9 2013 THE new members of the Integrity Commission should be named by incoming President Anthony Carmona, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has advised outgoing President George Maxwell Richards. Newsday obtained a letter penned by...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says her government is moving to prevent the postponement of local government elections in the future. Speaking at the launch of local government reform consultations at San Fernando City Hall on Tuesday night, Persad-Bissessar said it was...

By CECILY ASSON Wednesday, March 6 2013 Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night extended her condolences to the loved ones of President Hugo Chavez and also to the people of Venezuela on his passing yesterday. Chavez died at a military hospital in Caracas at 4.25 pm...

Science Technology and Tertiary Education Minister Fazal Karim is calling for three leading tertiary institutions to introduce free online education. Delivering an address at the launch of the T&T Entrepreneurial Springboard Programme (TTESP) at San Fernando City  Hall...

An increase in exports and a reduction in poverty were among the achievements highlighted when the Ministry of Planning and Sustainable Development rolled out the first ever Government performance appraisal report in T&T on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). In delivering...

Function held by WASA to commemorate their largest ever purchase of dictile pipelines. 190 miles of pipeline were purchases from Chinese company, Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Company Limited, at a cost of $260 million.

By MIRANDA LAROSE Saturday, March 2 2013 The Ministry of Tertiary Education and Skills Training is set to launch by May, the country’s first local aviation institute in Camden, Couva, according to Minister of Tertiary Education and Skills Training Fazal Karim. Addressing invitees...

Saturday, March 2 2013 DESPITE some challenges, Petrotrin’s Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD) Plant, which should produce 40,000 barrels a day (b/d) of diesel with a sulphur content under eight parts per million, is expected to be completed this year. So said Petrotrin president,...

MP Ramona Ramdial opened Freeport Hindu School’s Annual Spirts & Family Day 2013 and sponsored a cash prize of $2000 to the winning house.      

Thursday, February 28 2013 THERE seems to be discord within the Tobago House of Assembly, as one day after THA Chief Secretary Orville London confirmed to Newsday that he is going to hire former Finance Secretary Anselm London as a consultant with the Finance Division at a...

Minister Roopnarine takes Project Touch to Woodland The Member of Parliament for Oropouche West and Minister of State in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, the Hon Stacy Roopnarine, continued Project Touch in her constituency yesterday Tuesday 26th February 2013 in the...

Over 40 children, out of more than 150 applicants, have received assistance from the Children’s Life Fund Authority since it was established in 2010, said chairman Varun Maharaj. Out of the cases which received help, 38 occurred before the end of 2011. The total spent on medical...