After Warner’s triumph

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - JACK WARNER’S convincing victory in Monday’s by-election for the Chaguanas West constituency can be subjected to varying political interpretations. These will undoubtedly be coming in the days ahead from political scientists and other media commentators. We may...
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The UNC’s options in Chaguanas West

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In their concession speeches on Monday night, both the defeated United National Congress candidate Khadijah Ameen and her leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised to continue the “work” in Chaguanas West. This being politics, however, the services provided by the...
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‘By-election won’t affect investors’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - It is still too early to determine what sort of impact Jack Warner’s victory in Monday’s Chaguanas West by-election will have on investor confidence in Trinidad and Tobago, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Hugh Howard said yesterday. In a b...
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FALLOUT

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Jack Warner’s victory in Chaguanas West has laid bare some uncertainties within the People’s Partnership coalition. The People’s Partnership, which won 29 seats in May 2010, started out with a 21/6/2 equation—21 United National Congress (UNC) members...
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Caribbean countries seeking reparation for slavery

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines does not hide his passion for wanting reparation for slavery, which he describes as a “brutal, exploitative and dehumanising system”. He insists that Caribbean countries do “h...
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JACK ON FIRE

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - It’s a new day in the politics of the country. Jack Warner’s green machine trounced Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s UNC in its heartland of Chaguanas West yesterday, shattering all tribal expectations with an impressive victory. Warner garnered 69 per cent of t...
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Kamla: I don’t believe we have lost

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The gloves are not yet off. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night that the United National Congress’ (UNC’s) defeat in the Chaguanas West by-election was no loss and instructed her troops to get ready for the local government elections. In her ...
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COP- Jack’s victory a “dangerous development”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE Congress of the People, which vigorously campaigned in support of the United National Congress' candidate for the Chaguanas West by-election, on Monday night issued a statement in response to the election victory of interim leader of the Independent Labour Party, Ja...
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Analysts: Kamla, UNC’s future in doubt

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The landslide victory of Jack Warner speaks to the demise of the UNC and could also signal a real possibility of the former national security minister becoming the country’s next prime minister, says former government minister Ralph Maraj. Maraj was among a televisio...
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New day in politics

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - At the end, everybody “knew” how it would turn out. But hardly anyone had dared to assert with confidence the compelling likelihood of the result. Jack Warner, the challenger to the ruling order, yesterday won the Chaguanas West by-election that he had himself a...
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