PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves has expressed hope that he can meet with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar within the next week over the contentious fuel subsidy to State-owned carrier Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) on competing routes w...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, is to pay a three-day State visit to Trinidad and Tobago, the Office of the Prime Minister has announced. It said the Chinese leader, who will be accompanied by his wife, Peng Liyuan, will arrive here on May 31. ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Interim President of the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT), Suzanne Sheppard, has described as “very frightening” emails read out in parliament purporting to show members of the coalition People’s Partnership government involved in attempts to undermine t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Monday said she would ask the police to investigate allegations contained in emails read out in Parliament that purport to show members of her government, including herself, involved in attempts to undermine the judiciary, the Offi...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Trinidad and Tobago Agri-Business Association (TTABA) is one of the collaborating partners in a regional initiative to boost food security. The project with the University of Wageningenin the Netherlands targets Barbados, Belize, St Kitts/Nevis and T&T and is aimed ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Having read Ronald Mason's blast against CARICOM, and the insipid reply by Hilbourne Watson, I must intervene. The whole thinking about CARICOM has gone off track. This business of whether Jamaica should be in or out is beside the point. Who told Trinidad and Barbados to set up s...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Trinidad's Finance Minister Larry Howai Friday named a new board of directors for the cash-strapped state-owned national carrier, Caribbean Airlines (CAL), less than 72 hours after he told legislators that the company had accumulated losses in excess of US$100 million. Howai told...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In his most recent interviews with the Guardian, Lawrence Duprey, former Chairman of CL Financial has his own narrative of his time at the helm of the failed financial empire. Duprey claims to have only wanted to help people save their money and to improve their standard of...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley has dismissed moves by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to have a court declare him bankrupt over the non-payment of legal fees. Last week, Ramlogan initiated court proceedings against Rowley to recover the TT$12,000 (One TT dollar = U...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last week in the Senate an interesting exchange took place between Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and some PNM senators during the period set aside for questions to ministers. The essence of the argument was that the Attorney General indicated that he could prepare a draft...