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Tewarie: Petrotrin assets to be audited
Yvonne WebbPublished: Monday, August 4, 2014Following two oil spills, which has already cost state-owned Petrotrin millions of dollars and affected the national revenue earnings, acting Energy Minister...
View ArticleWASA: More water in Petit Curacaye by year end
Published: Monday, August 4, 2014Guardian AngelProblem: Earla Sylvester, of Petit Curacaye, off Santa Cruz Old Road, said, “In my community there is a WASA booster pump that services the whole Petit...
View ArticleYouths energise Emancipation celebrations
Melissa DoughtyPublished: Monday, August 4, 2014Pan well represented at Savannah… The sound of steelpan rocked the Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village on Saturday at the Queen’s Park Savannah as...
View ArticlePan On A Higher Note ends in success
Published: Monday, August 4, 2014DAVID CUFFY It may be argued that famous composer the late George Gershwin and famous pan player/composer our own Len “Boogsie” Sharpe are both innovators of a new...
View ArticleNo more minority MPs
Gail AlexanderPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Kamla wants sweeping constitutional changes...Government next week will debate legislation in Parliament to provide for a runoff poll in elections so...
View ArticleFixed dates for future elections
Published: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is seeking term limits for the prime minister’s post. During her contribution at the opening of the first and last session of...
View ArticlePP out to wipe up Life Sport mess
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Rowley questions timing of new lawsGeisha Kowlessar and Rhondor DowlatThe People’s Partnership Government was slammed by the Opposition yesterday for...
View ArticleRun-off election could change voter habits
Nigel HenryPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014A run-off election for Members of Parliament was one of the significant new legislative provisions offered for inclusion by Prime Minister Kamla...
View ArticleNew standing order seeks to end cross-talk
Gail AlexanderPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014The Prime Minister will have to answer questions for 30 minutes during the new session of Parliament, MPs will have less speaking time and there is to be...
View ArticleAnil’s seat now vacant
Speaker acts on resignation letterGail AlexanderPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Former minister Anil Roberts’ former D’Abadie O’Meara seat, which was declared vacant yesterday, has been shifted to...
View ArticleRowley on alleged Life Sport corruption: Cheque stubs found in dump
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has said he has fresh evidence of corruption and mismanagement in the Life Sport programme and showed several cheque...
View ArticleMass demonstration over oil spill today
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Petrotrin is bracing for a mass demonstration today outside its Pointe-a-Pierre administration offices as Marabella residents and the Oilfields’...
View ArticleGardener shot dead in Paria
RHONDOR DOWLATRhondor DowlatPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Phillip Noreiga, 31, was on his way home, yesterday, after working all morning in his vegetable garden in Paria, when he was gunned down....
View ArticleCouva hospital at advanced stage
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Tuesday, August 5, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has announced that a package of health care goodies will soon be delivered to citizens across T&T. Patients...
View ArticleMalala calls out world leaders on Gaza
Taureef MohammedPublished: Saturday, August 2, 2014Two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai has slammed world leaders for their apparent silence over the ongoing killing of children and...
View ArticleAll hands on deck
PNM officials, legal team meet on reform billsGail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, August 6, 2014The Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) went into emergency response mode yesterday, calling all...
View ArticleGhany: Run-off not new to PNM
Gail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, August 6, 2014Constitutional expert Dr Hamid Ghany says the run-off poll proposal was something the Opposition PNM introduced in its party constitution recently and...
View ArticleMoonilal on reform legislation: PNM missed boat to raise questions
Published: Wednesday, August 6, 2014The Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) missed two opportunities at Monday’s parliamentary session launch to query the holding of Parliament sessions this...
View ArticleAG: Election reform will empower voters
Dereck AchongPublished: Wednesday, August 6, 2014Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has dismissed mounting public criticism of sweeping changes to the electorial process proposed in the Constitution...
View ArticleHow runoff rules would have impacted 2007 polls
Gerard BestPublished: Wednesday, August 6, 2014If the constitutional changes being proposed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar were in effect during the 2007 general election, former United...
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