PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - At Wednesday’s consultation with religious bodies on the 2012 draft national policy on gender and development, Leela Ramdeen, chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice, raised a curious argument regarding the definition of gender in the document. After ackno...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad-born United Kingdom-based writer, Monique Roffey, whose work titled “Archipelago” based on the 2008 floods here, has won the US$10,000 2013 One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. St. Lucian poet, Kendel Hippolyte won ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The music we listen to reflects our innermost feelings and our relationship with society, and if society does not offer opportunities for jobs and a meaningful life, then music won’t offer narratives that reflect hope and opportunity for loving relationships and accep...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada have agreed to co-host a CARICOM Public-Private Partnerships Seminar and business-to-business meetings in Port-of-Spain later this year. The agreement was reached following discussions held in Ottawa on Thursday between...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A political showdown between former national security minister Jack Warner and Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is expected to take place at the Parliament today. Warner is expected to defend himself against a private motion filed by Rowley which takes issue with the alle...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Chaguanas West Member of Parliament Jack Warner addressed his constituents at a meeting at the Pierre Road Recreation Ground in Charlieville on Thursday night, as he sought to clear the air on his recent resignation as National Security Minister and chairman of the United N...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner Thursday night announced his resignation as a legislator paving the way for a by-election in the Chaguanas West constituency within 90 days. Warner, who resigned earlier this week as a Cabinet mi...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Noting that the world is vastly changing, Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development, Bhoendradatt Tewarie, has called for greater regional integration. Speaking with reporters after the launch of the National Spatial Development Strategy Workshop on Wednesday at the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that she does not expect any backlash from her former top Government Minister, Jack Warner. In fact, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that Warner will continue to toe the party and Government line and do the right ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - t is rather worrisome that acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams should have chosen to fulsomely praise fired national security minister Jack Warner. “He has been an exceptional minister, and I want to put that on record,” Mr Williams told the media last M...