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Proud Moment: Professor Selwyn Ryan greets Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar at the launch of Rhona Baptiste's book, Kamla: Ascent of a Woman, in November 2010

Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery  read more…

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Minister of Tourism Dr. Rupert Griffith delivering the feature address at the Exotic Evening of Cocoa and Coffee Tasting at the Cascadia Hotel, St. Ann's

Missed Tourists

May 13th 2012 12:10 PM

THE announcement by Tourism Minister Dr. Rupert Griffith of a $37 million enhancement to this country’s tourism plant marks a crude juxtaposition to the photographs now circulating on the Internet of this country’s presentation at the Cruise Shipping Miami 2012 conference held in Florida last March. The conference is the  read more…

The $1.3 million Valencia Visitor Arrival Centre

No resort plans for land

May 13th 2012 12:04 PM

TURTLE Village Trust (TVT) chief executive officer Dr. Allan Bachan told TnT Mirror he is not aware of any plans by the TVT’s main financial backers, energy giants BHP Billiton and Atlantic LNG, to invest in an exclusive tourism resort in or near the village of Mission. The TVT, he  read more…

Trinidad and Tobago display at Miami Convention

Booth of shame

May 13th 2012 12:02 PM

Nationals knock TnT’s tourism display at Miami convention Even as he announced a $40 million plan to boost domestic tourism, Tourism Minister Dr Rupert Griffith is being hammered for a poor display put on by this country at a tourism trade show in Miami, USA. Trinidadians, both in Miami and  read more…

Cumuto–Manzanilla MP COLLIN PARTAP at left while corporation chairman Alderman KESHWAR MAHARAJ addresses the meeting. CEO RAYMOND SEEPAUL is at right

No URP work for Grande residents

April 6th 2012 2:28 PM

UNEMPLOYMENT Relief Programme (URP) bosses at the Guaico Tamana Road, Sangre Grande office are abusing their authority. They are even defying attempts by MPs Dr Rupert Griffith (Toco-Sangre Grande) and Collin Partap (Cumuto-Manzanilla) to persuade them to give jobs on the programme’s projects to the people of Sangre Grande and  read more…

Minister of Tourism Dr. Rupert Griffith delivering the feature address at the Exotic Evening of Cocoa and Coffee Tasting at the Cascadia Hotel, St. Ann's

No voting station for 700 UNC Matura, Matelot faithful

March 25th 2012 12:11 PM

ON the north-east coast in the villages between Matura and Matelot there are some 700 eligible voters in the Toco-Sangre Grande constituency for the UNC’s national executive election coming off today (Saturday). However, there is no voting station provided for them and they will all have to find their way  read more…

Section of the protesters outside MP Dr. Rupert Griffith's office

Protestors say Griffith must go

March 9th 2012 11:58 AM

UNC activists from Toco/Sangre Grande/Valencia areas staged a noisy protest outside MP Dr. Rupert Griffith Office on Tuesday to protest the high level of unemployment, and lack of Food Cards, to the poor and needy. The villagers made several allegations against Griffith over the award of CEPEP contracts, to persons  read more…

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