Fixed dates for future elections
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is seeking term limits for the prime minister’s post. During her contribution at the opening of the first and last session of curr
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No more minority MPs
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Gail AlexanderPrime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal review a document during yesterday’s opening of the fifth session of Parliament....
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Couva hospital at advanced stage
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Yvonne BaboolalPrime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, centre, members of her Cabinet and Chinese workers look on during the top-off ceremony at the site of the children's...
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Gardener shot dead in Paria
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Rhondor DowlatPhillip NoreigaPhillip Noreiga, 31, was on his way home, yesterday, after working all morning in his vegetable garden in Paria, when he was gunned down.
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Mass demonstration over oil spill today
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Reshma RagoonathMarley King and President General OWTU Ancel Roget, right, show a sample of oil collected from the Guaracara River in Pointe-a-Pierre yesterday. PHOTO: RISHI...
View ArticleRowley on alleged Life Sport corruption: Cheque stubs found in dump
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Geisha KowlessarOpposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has said he has fresh evidence of corruption and mismanagement in the Life Sport programme and showed several cheque stubs which...
View ArticleAnil’s seat now vacant
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Gail AlexanderFormer minister Anil Roberts’ former D’Abadie O’Meara seat, which was declared vacant yesterday, has been shifted to the outermost Parliament backbench, next to...
View ArticleNew standing order seeks to end cross-talk
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Gail AlexanderThe Prime Minister will have to answer questions for 30 minutes during the new session of Parliament, MPs will have less speaking time and there is to be less of...
View ArticleFull text of PM's statement on proposed constitutional reforms to electoral...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 I am pleased to make a statement on the first day of the epoch-making and revolutionary changes we have ushered in through the new Standing Orders.
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Deosaran resigns from Police Service Commission
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Ramesh DeosaranProf Ramesh Deosaran has resigned as a member and chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC).
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Public gets some power
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar make her presentation during the fifth and final session of the tenth Parliament on Monday. Photo: SHIRLEY BAHADURDuring a presentation at...
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Duke shuts down Sando court
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Sascha WilsonPSA president Watson Duke addresses workers of the San Fernando Magistrates Court at Harris Promenade, San Fernando, during yesterday’s walkout. PHOTO: TONY HOWELL...
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Drama at oil leak protest
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Akemo Cobom leads Silk Cotton Road, Marabella residents during a protest outside Petrotrin’s headquarters in Pointe-a-Pierre yesterday. A Marabella man and two children fell...
View ArticleProtest in La Brea over highway jobs
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Sascha WilsonOver 100 people from Vance River and Guapo blocked the road with burning debris yesterday protesting mainly for jobs in the construction of $7.5 billion Solomon...
View ArticleMissing pages in Life Sport audit
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Two pages from the Central Audit Committee report into the now defunct Life Sport programme were inadvertently omitted from the final report but it does not affect the
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How runoff rules would have impacted 2007 polls
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Gerard BestIf the constitutional changes being proposed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar were in effect during the 2007 general election, former United National Congress (
View ArticleAG: Election reform will empower voters
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Dereck AchongAttorney General Anand Ramlogan has dismissed mounting public criticism of sweeping changes to the electorial process proposed in the Constitution (Amendment) Bill...
View ArticleMoonilal on reform legislation: PNM missed boat to raise questions
Wednesday, August 6, 2014The Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) missed two opportunities at Monday’s parliamentary session launch to query the holding of Parliament sessions this month
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Ghany: Run-off not new to PNM
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Gail AlexanderDr Hamid GhanyConstitutional expert Dr Hamid Ghany says the run-off poll proposal was something the Opposition PNM introduced in its party constitution recently...
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All hands on deck
Wednesday, August 6, 2014Gail AlexanderOpposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley, right, and Marlene McDonald following Monday's sitting of the House of Representatives, where Prime Minister Kamla...
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