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Cultural Heroes And Legends To Be Honored Proposals for a National Cultural Recognition Policy (NCRP) to support cultural artists and entrepreneurs include issuing lifetime diplomatic passports to people who are cultural legends in addition to $250,000 in cash benefits and other perks. Culture Minister Nyan Gadsby-Dolly detailed the plan in Parliament yesterday when she spoke about a White Paper on […More]

Dr. Keith Rowley Highlights T&T’s Foreign Policy In First UNGA Speech In his first address at the 74th United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley made clear this country’s foreign policy stance on several matters and joined the chorus of Caribbean voices advocating on issues such as financial blacklisting. Delivering the address on Friday evening, the Prime Minister […More]

President Donald Trump said on Monday that U.S. authorities would begin next week removing millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump tweeted, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “They will […More]

The people of Trinidad and Tobago come first. This was Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s response when questioned about the influx of Venezuelans coming into Trinidad after fleeing their country in the midst of economic and political turmoil. Rowley was speaking at the post-Cabinet media conference held at the Diplomatic Center in St Ann’s on Thursday. His comments follow the […More]

Trinidad PM denies allegations of financial impropriety PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, Dr Keith Rowley, has denied allegations that he has a bank account in Florida through which he benefitted financially from a massive fake oil fraud at the state-owned Petrotrin refinery as “spurious and wholly untrue”. Opposition Member of Parliament, Dr Roodal Moonilal, made […More]

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CARICOM Single Market, the ultimate manifestation of regional integration– PM Holness The CARICOM Single Market (CSM) is the ultimate manifestation of Regional Integration. This is according to Chairman of the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government and Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness. He was speaking at the opening of the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM on Wednesday […More]

Packed week of events around CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting The Thirty-Ninth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will take place at the Convention Centre, Montego Bay, Jamaica on the 4 – 6 July 2018, under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Hon. Andrew Holness. Opening Ceremony will be held […More]

We must do more and do it more quickly – CARICOM SG on CSME As discussion on the status of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) returns to Jamaica, its place of induction, the CARICOM Secretary-General said that while much had been accomplished under its regimes, the Region had not achieved as much as it should have by now. The humbugs, […More]

Venezuelans boycott their presidential election By Marco Aponte-Moreno, St Mary’s College of California CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s May 20 presidential election may be an election in name only. Nicolás Maduro is widely expected to be reelected as Venezuela’s president despite his 20 percent approval rating and profound mismanagement of the country’s humanitarian and economic crisis. Maduro’s strongest competitor is Henri Falcón, a former state governor once […More]