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Tomorrow, as thousands of children across Trinidad and Tobago prepare to start a new school term, some eagerly, some with anxiety, I wish you all a calm and productive first day of school. Many of you may be excited to start a new chapter, having moved on to a higher class, or a...

I join with the national community in commemorating the 56th Anniversary of the Independence of Trinidad and Tobago. Fifty-six years of charting our own course as a nation, on a road that has been fraught with challenges, but with a people determined to move our country along the...

Eric Williams, faced with the worst crisis in the energy sector in the 1970s, made the interest and welfare of workers his preeminent concern. Rowley, half a century later, by contrast with no known exit strategy for Petrotrin workers is clearly showing that balance sheet,...

As a Member of Parliament in a region where many of the affected employees and energy service contractors reside or are headquartered I am compelled to add my voice in condemnation of the callous, cold, heartless and wicked move by the Rowley administration to summarily shut down...

In a statement today, Opposition Leader and Political Leader of the United National Congress Mrs Kamla Persad Bissessar, urged the Keith Rowley administration to take a cautious and pragmatic approach to the Petrotrin issue. How the restructuring of Petrotrin is handled will have...

“True to form, whether it is the Venezuela agreement, Sandals negotiations, the Galleon Passage fiasco, our diversification ‘mystery plans’, or the OAS and Darryl Smith Reports; citizens of T&T remain totally in the dark about almost everything under this Rowley led...

The recent public statements by the TTMA which indicated that some manufacturers have not yet been paid for goods delivered to Venezuela which formed part of a trade deal fostered between the governments of our nation and Venezuela in 2016 is not only proof of this...

On Wednesday a call by the media alerted me to the possibility that the Noel Garcia led UDeCoTT had allowed insurance coverage to lapse for the Government Campus Plaza, which house the following Ministries and state agencies: 1. Inland Revenue Division; 2. Custom and Excise...

As Member of Parliament for Pointe a Pierre I am calling on the Government to come clean on the future of Petrotrin on behalf of the hundreds of my constituents who are employed at the state oil company and the thousands more from across our nation who earn a livelihood from this...

The Government having wasted over $120 million by purchasing the Galleon’s Passage binding itself to an unsuitable vessel to service the sea-bridge; have now admitted their failure by inviting bids for the supply of a high speed passenger/ vehicle vessel. PM Rowley by his own...

The Prime Minister meets today with Sandals International to continue talks on the Sandals Tobago project. As this process of negotiation continues, the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago have been kept in the dark for nearly three years as to the terms and conditions of this...

The Member of Parliament for Oropouche West, Mrs. Vidia Gayadeen- Gopeesingh, has condemned Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh for his brazen arrogance in the midst of allegations of corruption and cronyism. In a release issued on Thursday the MP stated, “This incompetent Rowley...