PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) recorded losses estimated at US$70 million last year, Finance Minister Larry Howai has said. He told the Senate on Tuesday that the figure does not include the US$40 million in fuel subsidy to the airline even though he in...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - IT was bad enough for the United Nations to bring cholera into earthquake-stricken Haiti via its troops. But to give itself legal immunity against victims’ claims for damages is simply outrageous. In just one sentence, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has severely dam...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday congratulated Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina who has been elected the new head of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide. The new Pope has chosen the new name Pope Francis I. He was ordained Cardinal by the late Pope Joh...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government suffered a major setback in the courts after a High Court judge ruled that the bailout plan by the Kamla Persad Bissessar-led coalition People’s Partnership administration was unlawful. High Court judge Joan Charles Tuesda...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - AS the saying goes, in party politics “all things are possible”—including, of course, success and defeat at free and fair elections and, by extension, related court rulings. Within the past two days, two opposition parties—one in Dominica, the other ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Opposition politicians, trade unionists and non-government organisations have accused the Kamla Persad Bissessar government of seeking to impose an undeclared state of emergency in Trinidad and Tobago as it battles to deal with the escalating crime situation in t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she has no information that the son of a minister in her Cabinet is allegedly being investigated by United States law enforcement officials. Speaking with reporters as she toured several police stations on Tuesday, Prim...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Police Social and Welfare Association (PSWA) Tuesday said it is “more worried now” regarding the move by the coalition People’s Partnership government to precept soldiers into the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS). The PSWA met with ...

(Trinidad Guardian) Vasant Bharath, Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment and Minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Economy, received a courtesy call from his Costa Rican counterparts, Anabelle Gonzalez, Minister of Trade and Fernando Ocampo, Vice-Minister of Trade, on Friday at his Port ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THIS year’s International Women’s Day finds women enjoying more prosperity and privileges than at any other time in human history. Yet this is also the first time in history that there have been so few women in the world relative to men. In all Western nations,...