IT is no surprise that the just-ended 2023 Carnival festival lacked the creativity and innovation that the Government had promised for the first festival in three years.
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THE ever-bungling Keith Rowley Government is now fouling up the hard-fought permission to explore the natural gas-rich Dragon field.
THE plans to jack up utility rates would see many manufacturers packing up in Trinidad and Tobago and opening their plants in more business-friendly regional countries.
Every other Caricom country is moving apace to be able to feed its citizens. Except for Trinidad and Tobago!
Standards at primary and secondary schools have been continuously slipping under the wretched PNM.
The 2022 record homicide rate is set to be broken this year if the current pace continues, and yet the Prime Minister is clutching onto his incompetent National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds.
INTERNATIONAL experts are continuing to warn about impending higher food prices. Several countries are hoarding wheat and other essentials […]
Only an unconscionable person as Keith Rowley would blatantly seek to hoodwink T&T on the London arbitration ruling with respect to OAS Construtora.
WHEN would there be justice in the Paria diving disaster that took four precious lives in late February?
THE Government cannot dismiss allegations of monitoring citizens’ telephone calls, social media messages, and emails.
WHAT type of Government would decline to create synergies with a next-door neighbour that is the world’s fastest-growing economy, growing at 34% this year?
DON’T be fooled by the PNM Government’s upcoming so-called Local Government reform.
THE Rowley Government must be the only administration in the world that is not preparing for upcoming food shortages and higher prices.
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds is once more guilty of duplicity in claiming that land disputes are at the root of many murders.
The Government’s response to the recent day-long electricity blackout is another graphic example of its pathetic national leadership.
DON’T let the PNM Government tell you it is committed to whistleblower legislation.
What kind of leader would ignore a next-door country with the largest discoveries of oil and gas in recent times, for an exhibition thousands of miles away?
THE departure of financial technology company WiPay last year illustrates the steady flight of businesses from Trinidad and Tobago,
The UNC stands with workers against the PNM Government’s unilateral imposition of mandatory vaccination, illegally altering the terms of employment.
While the PNM Government cannot account each year for large sums of taxpayers’ money, the Jamaican authorities have imposed penalties on two senior public servants for similar offences.
What kind of political administration would cut back on social welfare measures at a time of national economic crisis?
The increased cost of food is largely the result of external factors, but there are mitigating measures a skilled government would have implemented.
Under PNM rule, Trinidad and Tobago has become a pothole nation, with the most horrible roadways in the Caribbean. What happened to the $3bn in road improvement loans?.
Neglect of our children by the PNM Government is therefore particulalry galling and must be corrected.
What does the PNM really mean when it speaks of promoting “agriculture”? Who are they really trying to help?
The small man, including many who have lost their jobs, pay the price at the retail counter for groceries and other essentials.
The lack of care and callous actions of bulldozing homes and crops showed they had no care for the mental anguish and trauma they caused to the residents.
The result is that more and more crimes would be unsolved; at present, the crime detection rate is only at around 15 percent.
All these deals would be open to corruption, bid-rigging, and other forms of bobol, and would not meet the standards of accountability, transparency and value for money.
For years, Imbert has been promising to establish a Statistical Institute, to improve the country’s standing on the Ease of Doing Business, to start a shipbuilding industry, to digitise the public sector.
Al Rawi, the most criticised AG in recent history, is getting the full backing of the Prime Minister.
Read about the human stories behind the flood statistics, from a pregnant woman caught in the water to residents saving their pets and refusing to leave their homes unattended.
The just-released Economic Bulletin of the Central Bank tells us in a most pointed way what is the critical issue in Trinidad and Tobago – the Economy.
Nothing illustrates the incompetence of the PNM Government more than the current state of water supply.
What exactly has Keith Rowley done for labour since becoming Prime Minister? It may be worse than you think.
The aborted Atlantic Train 1 is turning into another World Gas-To-Liquids (WGTL) Scandal. In both cases, taxpayers of Trinidad and Tobago are being cheated of hundreds of millions of precious dollars.