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FORMER UNC MPs Dr Fuad Khan and Ramona Ramdial have slammed people within the party who they accuse of using them to try and remove Opposition Leader and Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar as political leader when the party holds its congress in Couva on Sunday.

THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY BC PIRES IT’S STILL dark, when I wake up before the sun and, in the darkness, I stare past the bedpost, at Philip Larkin lingering there, and realise I’m a whole day closer to him now. I sigh, softly, so as not to wake the little woman at my side or

Swami Brahma Swarupananda A REPUBLIC is “a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.” The significant concept to the word republic is that the leader of the country is not a hereditary monarch but an elected

THE EDITOR: Congratulations to Anushka Singh, her parents and the principal and staff of the Gandhi Memorial Vedic School on placing first in the Secondary Examination Assessment (SEA). The sad thing is that this information could only be accessed after invoking the child's right to know her results. Up to now no real excuse has

THE EDITOR: The choice of the seventh President is now history with the election of Christine Kangaloo by the Electoral College. I think it is only fair that the population gives the second female in succession chosen for the highest office of the land a chance to prove herself worthy of the post. There has

CHAGUANAS East MP Vandana Mohit on Monday joined her fellow UNC parliamentary colleagues in dismissing claims of a rift in the party after three of its parliamentarians did not vote for the UNC's presidential nominee Israel Khan SC in the Electoral College on January 20.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” Aldous Huxley, English writer.In the present furore about selecting a new pre

THE JUDICIARY has extended congratulation to Justice Frank Seepersad for receiving the Pravasi Bharatiya Samaan Award (PBSA) - India’s highest award for overseas Indians - on Tuesday. In a release, the Judiciary said the award “is the highest honour conferred by the Government of India on persons of Indian descent in the diaspora, in recognition

The Prime Minister has doubled down on his support for government presidential nominee Christine Kangaloo. The nomination papers, signed by 12 government MPs, were submitted to the Parliament on Monday.

The Media Association of TT (MATT) has extended condolences to the family and friends of journalist Nalinee Seelal, a groundbreaking crime reporter that cemented the reputation of the early Newsday publication, who died early on Monday. A dialysis patient, she was found by her husband of 15 years, Sydney Beepath, a former cameraman at IETV.