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UNC gets new home in San Fernando, moves away from Central Trinidad Tuesday 9 March 2021 The new home of the UNC at M Rampersad building 2-12 Hilda Lazzari Terrace, Les Efforts East San Fernando. - Lincoln Holder THE United National Congress (UNC) which had its "navel string" buried in Central Trinidad, has found a new home., this time in the south. Its new location is the M Rampersad Building at No 2-12 Hilda Lazzari Terrace, Les Efforts East, San Fernando. This building was one of the party�...

MSJ: Tobago has opportunity for significant reform MSJ political leader David Abdulah - As the PNM Tobago Council meets on Monday to discuss a power-sharing arrangement proposed as an interim solution for the deadlocked Tobago House of Assembly (THA), a third political party is lauding it as “the most enlightened” of all proposals. Political leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) David Abdulah said it was not a new approach as a group of independent trade unionists to which he bel...

Last of leaders of 1962 celebrations Friday 26 February 2021 THE EDITOR: My father Ramnarine Binda recently passed away in Winnipeg, Canada, surrounded by his wife Kausill and other family members. We believe that with his passing there are no other leaders alive who were involved in the independence celebrations of TT in 1962. Binda was chairman of the Caroni County Council during the period 1960-1968 and safety officer of Caroni Ltd from 1972 to1988. So eventful was his life of activism that ...

Killing of our women Wednesday 24 February 2021 THE EDITOR: In 1976, while I was a university student in Toronto, I would spend time in the library after classes to complete my daily assignments because of the traffic on evenings. I would often take a break from school work by reading the Trinidad Guardian newspaper on evenings. The paper was sent to the library by the Trinidad consulate in Toronto. At that same time there were no internet or social media. As a matter of fact, even telephone c...

Ariel Saunders: Young servant of the people Sunday 14 February 2021 Ariel Saunders, activist on the St Marys Village Council, continues his work in the Moruga community. PHOTOS BY MARVIN HAMILTON - When voters in the electoral district of Hindustan/St Mary’s went to the polls to select a new councillor in the January 25 local government by-election, they had the option of voting for 24-year-old Ariel Saunders. Saunders ran as an independent candidate and although he wasn’t elected to serve...

Dr Rowley: ‘The most efficient and viable solution for Tobago’; THA to get 15 districts “In the forty year history of the Tobago House of Assembly, there has never been an even share of seats to respective political parties resulting in such a deadlocked election result in Tobago.  “Further, given that the number of electoral districts is an even one there is the real possibility of the reoccurrence of such a deadlocked result if a fresh poll is taken with the existing twelve electoral...

The following statement calling for bipartisan action against crime comes from former UNC MP for Caroni East Dr Tim Gopeesingh:  The brutal attacks and murders of Andrea Bharatt and many other women underscore the horrendous crime reality that has been stalking our nation in recent years. What is needed now to counteract this is urgent legislative reform and attendant policy implementation by the government of the day, with the opposition playing a very crucial role in spearheading this nation...

Moonilal denies UNC involvement in THA election Monday 1 February 2021 Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal speaks during a news conference at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition in Port of Spain on Sunday. With him is Senator Wade Mark. - Ayanna Kinsale OROPOUCHE East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal is again denying allegations that his party, the United National Congress (UNC), had any involvement in last Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election. He was speaking at a news conference at...

Thursday 28 January 2021 Indian High Commissioner to TT Arun Kumar Sahu samples some of the food from a traditional Indian breakfast during the ceremony commemorating the 72nd Republic Day of India at his Maraval residence. - ROGER JACOB HIGH COMMISSIONER of India to TT Arun Kumar Sahu on Tuesday commemorated Indias 72nd Republic Day at his residence in St Clair. Republic Day, a national holiday in India, celebrates the Constitution coming into effect in 1950. The Constitution replaced the Gove...

Former MP Rambachan slams politicians for dividing Trinidad and Tobago Former Tabaquite MP Dr Surujrattan Rambachan. - FORMER UNC MP Dr Surujrattan Rambachan took both the PNM and his former UNC colleagues to task for dividing TT along several different lines. In a media release, Rambachan said regardless of whether people support the PNM or the UNC "we as the affected people need to wake up to our reality. "This country cannot continue to be sliced up into north, south and central, into India...