PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former junior national security minister Collin Partap has been slapped with a TT$5,000 (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) fine after he was found guilty Tuesday of a charge of failing to submit himself to a breathalyser test outside a night club last year. Chief Mag...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - JACK WARNER’S convincing victory in Monday’s by-election for the Chaguanas West constituency can be subjected to varying political interpretations. These will undoubtedly be coming in the days ahead from political scientists and other media commentators. We may...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In their concession speeches on Monday night, both the defeated United National Congress candidate Khadijah Ameen and her leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised to continue the “work” in Chaguanas West. This being politics, however, the services provided by the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - It is still too early to determine what sort of impact Jack Warner’s victory in Monday’s Chaguanas West by-election will have on investor confidence in Trinidad and Tobago, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Hugh Howard said yesterday. In a b...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Jack Warner’s victory in Chaguanas West has laid bare some uncertainties within the People’s Partnership coalition. The People’s Partnership, which won 29 seats in May 2010, started out with a 21/6/2 equation—21 United National Congress (UNC) members...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Interim leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Austin Jack” Warner Tuesday said it would be “premature” to say whether or not his party would seek membership of the People’s Partnership government following his convincing victory i...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former justice minister Herbert Volney Tuesday resigned from the ruling United National Congress (UNC), less than a day after the party suffered a humiliating defeat in its stronghold of Chaguanas West in southern Trinidad. In a letter sent to the party’s ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines does not hide his passion for wanting reparation for slavery, which he describes as a “brutal, exploitative and dehumanising system”. He insists that Caribbean countries do “h...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The board of directors for Caribbean Airlines is on schedule to present its report to the Finance Minister within its three-month timeframe, chairman Phillip Marshall said yesterday. He added that the board had been undergoing several “immersion sessions” on th...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The landslide victory of Jack Warner speaks to the demise of the UNC and could also signal a real possibility of the former national security minister becoming the country’s next prime minister, says former government minister Ralph Maraj. Maraj was among a televisio...