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After Dr Rowley’s visit to the UN (accompanied by Dennis Moses) our foreign policy on Venezuela is in total shambles. Our arrangements to bring gas from Dragon Field have fallen apart in the wake of US sanctions. We are diplomatically isolated regionally. We are in an...

Member of Parliament for Couva South and Opposition’s Shadow Minister for Labour and Enterprise Development Rudranath Indarsingh is today angrily reacting with utter disbelief at the intervention by the Guard and Emergency Branch of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service at a...

Yesterday the US placed economic sanctions on state owned, Venezuelan oil company PDVSA. These sanctions include a freeze on PDVSA’s assets in the US and barring American firms from doing business with that company. T&T must therefore be wary of the implications on this PNM...

Our beautiful Trinidad and Tobago needs you now more than ever! I also want to acknowledge some of the special visitors with us. We have the hard-working members of the diplomatic corps, the media and the many others who told me that they are coming to observe the proceedings...

Winston Churchill is famously quoted as saying that diplomacy is the art of telling a man to go to hell, and you do it so nicely that he asks for directions. Dr Rowley needs lessons in diplomacy. Our PM is by character, temperament, personality, and practice wedded to...

During a TV6 interview on Thursday night the MP for Naparima, Rodney Charles, raised the issue of whether Trinidad and Tobago could afford to spend $1 billion in infrastructure to bring Venezuelan gas here since there is the possibility that the gas agreements would not be...

The revelation in one of today’s newspapers of the horrors experienced by 92-year-old Kushmawati Girwar whilst seeking medical attention at the San – Fernando General Hospital, can be corroborated by hundreds of other patients who had similar experiences in the past two years in...

Naparima MP Rodney Charles is demanding that this PNM administration adopt a more humanitarian approach, and fulfill its consular responsibilities, especially when dealing with TT children abroad who were forced to go to Syria by their parent/s. Once again T&T has been...

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath is taking Prime Minister Keith Rowley to task for appointing former Chairman of the Port Authority Christine Sahadeo to the boards of two companies that the Rowley Government established in its transition, after closing down the Petrotrin Refinery....

TODAY’S REALITY The world is rapidly moving towards an integrated digital economy, based on renewable energies, artificial intelligence and automation. As a gas and oil-based economy, we will face challenges in growing and maintaining revenues, jobs and expenditure. By 2040 most...

Today was another lost opportunity to present new and innovative strategies to move our economy forward. He quickly descended into a convoluted diatribe in which he resorted to his all too familiar theme of “blame everyone except me”. The Prime Minister spent more than three...

The “withdrawal” of Sandals is no surprise. Repeatedly, the Rowley Government has fallen flat on its face on its flagship projects/game changers. The Government is failing in every sector and on every project, and, the decision by Sandals to “withdraw” from Tobago highlights,...