Trinidad and Tobago
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PM urges UN to ratify arms treaty
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The death of T&T scholarship winner Ravindra Ramrattan during the recent terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya was another example of the consequences of the illicit arms flow across borders, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Persad-Bissessar spoke about Ramrattan’s death as she urged world leaders to ratify the…
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Progress towards achieving Millennium Development Goals ‘uneven’ – Trinidad
PM UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago says based on what the international community has witnessed since commitments were made at the Millennium Summit in 2007, progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been “uneven.” In addressing the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Debate late Wednesday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said while the twin-island…
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NY Crime Buster Heads To T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former New York police commissioner William “Bill” Joseph Bratton is expected to arrive in T&T in November to conduct a “diagnostic test” of the Police Service to determine the root cause of its problems and find a way forward for a more efficient organisation and ultimately a safer country. Emphasis would also be placed on…
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This amusing chase after CCJ
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar used her “conversational message” on Monday with the people of Trinidad and Tobago for yesterday’s 37th anniversary of this nation as a constitutional republic to signal the coming of some significant political changes for improved democratic governance and building of a more united society. She chose the high road in pledging…
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Kamla to address UN General Assembly today
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will address the United Nations General Assembly today at 7:30 p.m. Persad-Bissessar arrived in New York yesterday morning to attend the 68th United Nations General Assembly. She is due to return home tomorrow. According to a release from the Office of the Prime Minister, as current Chair of CARICOM, the Prime…
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Muslim leader blanks Commission of Inquiry
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prominent Barbadian jurist Sir David Simmons Monday called on the Trinidad and Tobago government to review the Commission of Inquiry legislation after the leader of the Jamaat-al Muslimeen group failed to appear before the Commission probing the circumstances that led to the failed 1990 coup against the then government of prime minister ANR Robinson.…
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‘Plant on unused Caroni lands’
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Take back Caroni lands that are lying fallow and use them to produce food, says Independent Senator Subhas Ramkhelawan. Speaking during the budget debate at the Senate sitting yesterday, Ramkhelawan said in the national budget, some $1.3 billion was allocated toward agriculture. He noted that since the closure of Caroni (1975) Ltd, there were close…
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On the occasion of our coming of age
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Republic Day has huge significance in the history and development of T&T, but how many people appreciate and understand it? Republican status was the next big step after independence, when the country really became a sovereign nation. But that fact does not seem to be widely acknowledged or celebrated. President Anthony Carmona said as much…
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Trinidad and Tobago celebrates 37 years of Republicanism
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago is observing the 37th anniversary of being a republic on Tuesday with political leaders saying the head of state saying the mistakes over the past three decades were part of the process of maturity. “Even a fleeting comparison of our nation with other nations that have histories as short as ours,…
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Trinidadian among dozens killed in Kenya mall siege
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A Trinidadian national, employed as a research economist in Kenya, was among several people killed when Shabab militant attackers held up Narobi's Westgate Shopping Mall over the weekend killing at least 68 people. Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has extended condolences to the family of Trinidadian scholar, Ravindra Ramjattan. “It is with deep sadness that I…
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