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Reigning Soca Monarch and Road March Champion Machel Montano (left) serenades Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at his Machel Monday Carnival Concert at the National Stadium last Monday. Also attending the concert were (from left) Public Utilities Minister Emmanuel George, Minister of National Security John Sandy, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Communications, Nicole Dyer-Griffith; the Prime Minister's husband Dr. Gregory Bissessar and calypsonian Benjai

Kamla keeps up heavy party schedule Amidst fiery protests in the Siparia constituency and bitter complaints by some constituents that she is missing in action, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is keeping up a heavy party schedule of Carnival fetes, in one instance hitting three — in different parts of the  read more…

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Dear mas’ player

January 27th 2012 1:19 PM

Open letter to masqueraders From our Files 39 years ago ONCE AGAIN on the eve of the national festival rumours are pervading the land there will be trouble for Carnival. Once again there is talk that this so-called revolutionaries will choose the period while the nation is on its annual  read more…

Leader of the Opposition Dr. Keith Rowley share a laugh with his colleagues Colm Imbert and Nileung Hypolite and a guest after he received the instrument of appointment at Knowsley Building, Queen's Park West, POS

Rowley survives balisier plot

January 27th 2012 1:05 PM

SUPPORTERS of embattled political leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM) Dr. Keith Rowley are seeing his triumph in last Saturday’s party General Council vote on the balisier tie as a defeat of a plan to have him ousted as leader. In a move which PNM insiders say was ultimately  read more…

Minister of Trade and Industry Stephen Cadiz with his wife Suzette

Great expectations, bitter disappointments

January 27th 2012 12:57 PM

OF all the terrible tragedies to befall us leading up to and since May 24, 2010, none of them has been as painful to bear as the dashed hopes of deliverance invested in those who held themselves up as agents of change. Remarkably the top contenders span the race, religion  read more…

Kamla Persad-Bissessar during her recent visit to India

Kamla’s delicate dance

January 27th 2012 12:40 PM

QUESTION: IF Trinidad and Tobago were 100 percent Hindus, would our response to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar kissing President Pratibha Patil’s toes elicit a different response? I suspect it would. But only 35 percent of Trinidad and Tobago’s population are Hindus and therein lays the conundrum. Such a move calls  read more…

Left to right Comptroller of Customs Fitzroy John and Former Head of the Special Anti-Crime Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (SAUTT) Peter Joseph

That partisan obsession

January 27th 2012 12:31 PM

IT is not unusual, nor totally unexpected, that when administrations come to office they would wish to have persons sharing their political philosophies be placed in key positions to lead the new dispensation, which may include changes in policies and direction. Along with the changes in the politically appointed staff  read more…

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Ria Taitt off to China

January 27th 2012 12:24 PM

EXPRESS political editor Ria Taitt leaves soon for a tour of Japan sponsored by the Japanese Embassy, and it is learnt that she is the only journalist to be chosen from Trinidad and Tobago to visit Japan to see firsthand the country’s reconstruction drive following the deadly Tsunami in 2009.  read more…

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