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Wearing a red tie and a broad smile, former United National Congress (UNC) senator Taharqa Obika yesterday joined the People’s National Movement (PNM) and received a VIP welcome, which started

FORMER minister in the Kamla Persad-Bissessar People's Partnership (PP) administration Dr Devant Maharaj, believes her call for political unity is vacuous and hollow. On a UNC platform on Monday night, Persad-Bissessar indicated the willingness of her party to form another coalition in the hope of removing the PNM from office. Several smaller parties have expressed

ECONOMIST Marla Dukharan says it is unfair for Finance Minister Colm Imbert to criticise journalists for using the most recent data on the performance of the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) provided by his ministry.

THE EDITOR: The PNM has a unique gift, which I call the gift of the un-Midas touch. Unlike the mythical Midas, whose touch turned everything into gold, the PNM turns everything they touch into ashes. Everything they touch gets damaged. In 2015, the PNM inherited a Heritage and Stabilisation Fund, the savings of the country.

Analysts from island nations struggling with expensive fossil fuels and extreme weather say the latest effort to counter China’s modest influence in the region does “not impress.”

MAJOR upgrades are in line for the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre and works are set to begin between the last quarter of this year and early next year.The Ministry

THE Prime Minister urged media houses to arrange to send staff on a thorough visit to the newly-built Diego Martin Corporation Administrative Building to see its fine condition, addressing a news briefing on Monday at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann's. Dr Rowley challenged remarks made by Barataria/San Juan MP Saddam Hosein at a UNC briefing

The Finance Minister says statements made by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar that government plans to impose a 25 per cent inheritance tax on the population are a "figment of her imagination."

OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar believes the government's withdrawal of US$1.9 billion from the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) since it assumed office has "undermined its purpose." She said this in a press release on Monday afternoon. Saying the fund's resources have been depleted under the PNM, Persad-Bissessar said government's withdrawals stand "in stark contrast to

Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said he was concerned when he saw the value of the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) decreasing in 2022. However, the advice given to him was: Wait it out. This, he said, was because 2022 was a particularly unpredictable year. Now, in 2023, he boasts that the fund is at