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Princes Town MP, Barry Padarath slammed Prime Minister Keith Rowley for his recent comments that Permanent Secretaries coming from the public service are poor managers and are responsible for project delays and inefficiency in the public service. Padarath indicated that Rowley is...

TT’s lack of an energy representative at tomorrow’s four day international energy conference and expo in Georgetown shows our growing, global irrelevance even in energy matters under a Keith Rowley led administration. The four day conference will be the premier annual meeting of...

The People’s Revolution which started in October has not only been raising awareness and holding the PNM to account for its dictatorial actions — it has also been getting results! Today MP Ravi Ratriam noted that remedial works began on Waterloo Road because of our...

The move by the Rowley Government to deport the 35 Venezuelan refugees including some 18 young children who were witnesses to the killing of baby Yaelvis Sarabia Santoyo reeks of a State-orchestrated cover-up. Most concerning is that the swift deportation was done in collusion...

The United National Congress disagrees strongly with the Express and Guardian editorials of 10 February 2022, which notably were almost identical in content and attitude. The Leader of the Opposition, Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, has nothing to apologise for, and the...

Dear Editor, please permit me to respond to your Editorial entitled “Pointless Political duel” published on Thursday 10th February 2022. I strongly object to your assertion that my use of the term “narco-trafficking regime” to describe the authoritarian government run by Nicolas...

I note with extreme concern the latest, pathetic, appalling, dangerous meltdown of Prime Minister Keith Rowley, where, in a Facebook post on the tragic killing of a Venezuelan baby by the T&T Coastguard, he chose to once more engage in lies and distraction to cover up his...

We were sick to our stomachs, with the rest of the country, reading about the terrifying and heart-wrenching ordeal of Ms. Katherine Akum Lum at the hands of the NWRHA. According to one report, “Akum Lum, who was then 51, went to the St James Medical Complex for a hysterectomy on...

The UNC Women’s Arm welcomes the installation of lights at Heights of Aripo, even though it is more than a year after we demanded this and other action to be taken in order to protect our women. The whole country — except, it seems, the Government! — was moved by the...

Since 2018 I have been urging the Rowley led PNM Government to address the humanitarian disaster unfolding on our shores with regard to Venezuelan migrants illegally entering our borders. The Rowley-led Government not only refused to seriously address this grave issue, they flat...

Minister Hinds on today’s Morning Edition with Fazeer Mohammed, declared that his “duty is not to ensure that people feel safe and secure” but merely to provide encouragement, general support, guidance and resources to our security agencies. Heaven help us. We are now witnessing...

We wish the best of luck to Team Trinidad and Tobago at the Beijing Winter Olympics. We know our sports men and women are working against great odds, with little or no support. We want to remind citizens that under Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in the 2012 Olympics Trinidad and Tobago...