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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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Mr. Kevin Ramnarine (now Energy Minister) receives his instrument of appointment from His Excellency Prof. George Maxwell Richards

Five schools to pay $14 million for NGC gas

November 4th 2011 11:25 PM

FIVE more secondary schools are expected to become National Gas Company (NGC) clients for fiscal 2012, joining Marabella Secondary and Couva Secondary, which are already connected to NGC’s gas lines, using the energy to power their air-condition systems. This is disclosed in the National Budget document detailing the State Enterprises  read more…

Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning

Manning’s return

November 4th 2011 11:00 AM

FORMER Prime Minister Patrick Manning played on the ignorance pervasive in the media when he staged his press conference last week announcing his intention to make “interventions” in the national discourse from now on. The timing of his announcement came after an Express editorial questioning whether Manning, given his silence  read more…

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Goat meat sales on the increase in T&T

October 30th 2011 12:08 PM

AFTER shrimp, a goat roti is the most expensive in eating establishments around T&T, which is very odd, given the fact that goat production has improved by 41 per cent in 2011, compared to 2010. Goat meat overall is expensive, retailing currently at $20 or more a pound, so it  read more…

Dr. Victor Wheeler

Independent Senator knocks PP Govt over Budget allocation

October 30th 2011 12:01 PM

INDEPENDENT Tobago Senator Dr. Victor Wheeler has knocked the Peoples’ Partnership (PP) government over Tobago’s allocation in the 2011-2012 budget. Speaking in the Senate during the budget debate in the Upper House last week Friday, he pointed out that the $2.699 billion combined allocations for the Tobago House of Assembly  read more…

AIDS Cocktail

$14,000 a year to treat HIV patient

October 28th 2011 6:44 PM

Members of the Toco Foundation Youth and Sexuality Project (TFYSP) have taken note of the finding by the T&T health care authorities that it costs $14,000 a year, or $1,167 a month, to provide a person who has contracted HIV with appropriate medication to slow or stop the disease from  read more…

At the recent presentation of the 2011 Budget, Opposition Leader Dr. KEITH ROWLEY did not wear the usual signature Balisier tie of PNM members ... he wore instead a stripped tie and a lapel pin of the flag of Trinidad and Tobago which all members of the People's Partnership Government regularly wear

Bacchanalian/Budget Debate

October 28th 2011 5:56 PM

IT’S either I am crazy or the Prime Minister is going mad. She stands up in Parliament and maligns her citizens. When she is confronted she refuses to accept responsibilities for her actions. Defenseless citizens are left at her mercy. Then the press either defends them or maligns them further.  read more…

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