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  On Monday night, Opposition Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar at the UNC’s Virtual Report criticised the PNM’s attack on legal, licensed gun owners. She observed, “This government together with their hand-picked Commissioner of Police is telling us about legal firearms...

The United States has just significantly increased its Travel Advisory to Level 3 for Trinidad and Tobago, telling US citizens around the world to “reconsider travel” to the entire country. The announcement was made on its website on 8 November 2022....

Today, I am enraged that I have to report that the bridge going into Carolina in my constituency of Couva South has indeed collapsed. The collapse of this bridge leaves residents of Springvale, Claxton Bay, Mt. Pleasant Road, Carolina Trace Nos 1&2, Forres Park, Milton, Lower...

After Dr. Roodal Moonilal dropped a bombshell about abuse of office and corruption at TTT last Sunday, the PNM is shamelessly advertising yet another unpaid political broadcast on TTT on Tuesday 8 November. Dr. Moonilal asked a parliamentary question to Minister of...

UNC deputy leader, Dr. Roodal Moonilal, has called for President Paula-Mae Weekes to officially tell the country whether she was involved in the alleged agreement to provide a Presidential pardon to Vincent Nelson, similar to her alleged involvement in the illegal withdrawal of...

Former Chairman of Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation and advisor to the Minister of Local Government, MP Khadijah Ameen says it was not necessary to postpone local government elections to facilitate local government reform. In a statement the former Senator and current Member...

Today, MP Saddam Hosein filed a matter in the House of Representatives to raise the outrageous crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago. The matter was grounded on the urgent need for the Government to account to the citizens of our country after witnessing over 500 gruesome...

The announcement that the PNM intends to underhandedly shift the Local Government Elections (LGE) by one year is a clear indication that Keith Rowley is running scared of the public. Rowley’s move to partially proclaim certain parts of the Local Government legislation to extend...

The Fisherfolk in the vicinity of the Godineau River at the Mosquito Creek have been suffering for the past three weeks since the collapse of the WASA Main pipeline which has blocked the flow of boats on their way to the Gulf of Paria. MP for Oropouche West Davendranath Tancoo...

The attempt by the Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan to get citizens to accept flooding as a normal acceptable occurrence is a desperate attempt to legitimize the deliberate neglect of the infrastructure he inherited according to MP for Oropouche West Davendranath...

With 501 murders in 10 months, we have far surpassed the murder rate for a similar period in 2008. In that year, it took 11 months to get to 500 murders. (2008 was the deadliest year in our history with a total of 550 murders). Unless decisive, serious, intelligent and visionary...

If the video circulating on social media showing hospital staff and a patient being wheeled through a flooded corridor at one of the nation’s hospitals is true, then the healthcare sector is indeed on the verge of collapse. A nurse riding on the back of a health care worker...