The brother of deceased People’s National Movement (PNM), Diego Martin Central MP Ken Valley has called on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to remember her promise to honour him. Speaking at the launch of the KCV (Kenneth Cyril Valley) Foundation at the Hilton Trinidad, St Ann’s yesterday, Dr Clinton Valley, president of the University of the [...]
THE Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) will be taking part in next year’s local government elections. The announcement was made by MSJ’s leader David Abdulah. Yesterday the party that was formed just over two years ago hosted its first annual party congress at the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU), Palms Club in San Fernando. In his [...]
THE Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election has implications not just for the THA and Tobago, but for Trinidad and Tobago and for the future of the People’s National Movement. So said THA Chief Secretary and PNM Deputy Political Leader Orville London as he addressed supporters in the courtyard of Balisier House, in Port of Spain, at the [...]
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday expressed pride in Attorney General Anand Ramlogan for his role in the success of the settlement of the of the Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) arbitration process with shipbuilder British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) which resulted in the payment of $1.382 billion to the State. “I am proud and satisfied that this [...]
THE four locomotives that for decades pulled the sugarcane-laden carriages from Barrackpore to Ste Madeleine, near San Fernando, left the train yard of former Caroni (1975) Ltd for a final time last week. The diesel-powered locomotives did not rumble out of the location on their own since the massive engines were never maintained after the [...]
Yesterday, the Sunday Express examined the relationship between the Trinidad and Tobago Government and the United Kingdom firm British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) Systems over a contract for and subsequent cancellation of three offshore patrol vessels (OPVs). It was knitted together from the witness statements and documents submitted to the International Court of Arbitration during the [...]
POINT FORTIN police officers retrieved a shotgun, five pistols and 1,230 rounds of .38 special ammunition on Saturday evening after being alerted of an illegal transaction by a caller to the Point Fortin Police Station. Reports are that around 3.15 p.m., the station received a call from someone who said a vehicle had left Cedros [...]
FOOD vendors at yesterday’s $4.5 million Laventille Community Renewal family day at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain were left with a major financial headache as a result of dismal sales. As the event organised by the Ministry of National Security neared its end, several dejected vendors had little choice but to give [...]
IF Dr Wayne Kublalsingh dies because of the hunger strike he has undertaken—in protest action against the building of the San Fernando-to-Point Fortin Highway, Debe-to-Mon Desir route—then he would have suffered a more meaningful death than if he died from natural causes. This is according to his 79-year-old father, Ray Kublalsingh. The younger Kublalsingh embarked [...]
The $4.5 million that has been spent on the family day for warring Laventille communities at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, today is a small price to pay for the results that will be achieved, said Minister of National Security Jack Warner. Speaking with the media on the issue yesterday at the Edinburgh [...]
