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Mr. Rushton Paray, I refer to your emailed correspondence dated Friday, May 24, 2024, which I received at 10.33 pm, inviting me to attend your campaign launch on Saturday, May 25, 2024, at 7:00 pm. Notably, this invite has been issued at totally short notice—less than 24 hours...

Yet again another one of Minister Young’s promises of future gas for Trinidad and Tobago is on a Red light! BP’s decision to pause talks with Venezuela on the development of the Manakin-Cocuina field as a result of the reinstatement of US Sanctions, a mere two months after...

It’s official. Ms. Nicole Gopaul will return as the UNC’s candidate for the Lengua/Indian Walk district. Meanwhile, Ms. Sara Sookdeo has been selected as the UNC’s Quinam/Morne Diablo candidate for the upcoming Local Government by-elections, carded for Monday 17 June 2024. This...

After all of his antics and misinformation, including character assassination under parliamentary cover by himself and the Attorney General, Finance Minister Colm Imbert has now realized that he has no choice, and is now forced to lay the Auditor General’s Report for the...

MP for Oropouche West Dave Tancoo is appealing to Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan to have his Ministry immediately clear the strewn boulders that have dislodged from the base of the new bridge at the entrance to the Gulf of Paria. These are some of the maintenance...

Motherhood is a most satisfying experience, in spite of its challenges. To all young women who are now finding your paths through adulthood, based on my own experiences, I urge you to consider the opportunity to become a mother. One of the most beautiful feelings in life is the...

The illegal installation of electronic equipment on utility poles is another crushing indictment on the hopelessly incompetent Fitzgerald Hinds as Minister of National Security. It again exposes Hinds’ chronic uselessness in ensuring the safety and security of the traumatised...

“It is one thing to be constantly sleeping on the job, but something completely differently when putting the very lives of those you are responsible for at ultimate risk!” exclaims MP for Oropouche West Dave Tancoo, who is alleging that due to the utter incompetence and failure...

The Opposition’s shadow Minister of Finance and MP for Oropouche West, Davendranath Tancoo describes yesterday’s hastily convened press conference by Minister Colm Imbert as a farce and a sad attempt to distract from the truth and the Government’s unwarranted attack on the...

As Trinidad and Tobago joins the rest of the globe in celebrating World Press Freedom Day, today, May 3, 2024, I affirm, on behalf of the Opposition UNC, our time honoured commitment to protect the constitutionally enshrined guarantee and sacred principle of press freedom....

It comes as no surprise that the long controversial NiQuan plant will be shutting down operations. What is painful is that because of mismanagement at the plant, which is a pet PNM project beginning with the failed gas to liquids plant under Malcolm Jones, seventy-five (75)...

Member of Parliament for St. Augustine Ms. Khadijah Ameen is warning Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Mr. Faris Al Rawi to stop ill advising Regional Corporations to misappropriate funds. The warning comes after bizarre comments were made by the Minister in an...