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Last weekend, Clico published its audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009, which indicated that the financially strapped insurance company had assets of $15.1 billion and liabilities of $24.5 billion, resulting in a deficit of $9.4 billion.

From sandy beaches to deep blue seas, explore it all with fun and silly hermit crab characters in Xia-Xia the game.

Question: If Trinidad and Tobago were one hundred percent Hindus, would our response to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar kissing President Pratibha Patil’s toes elicit a different response? I suspect it would.

The sister of former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning says her hospitalized brother is recovering well from a stroke suffered earlier this week.

Once again, the People’s Partnership Government is trying to pass laws that would lead to the resumption of hanging in our country.

The CD cover of De Fosto’s CD, De Patriot, is adorned with an image of celebrated fashion diva Anya Ayoung Chee.

Kees Dieffenthaller in his winning performance that secured him the 2011 International Groovy Soca Monarch title with the smash single, Wotless.

Work It! Publicist and T&T Guardian contributor Aba Luke easily earned the title “Mrs Fete” on demonstrating her gyrating skills at One Fete, held at the Queen’s Park Oval on Sunday.

Port-of-Spain, Jan 27 India’s Technical and Economic Cooperation programme will facilitate the advancement of Trinidad and Tobago’ s objective of becoming the ICT hub of the Caribbean and Latin America, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communications Surujrattan Rambachan.

Guanaguanare hopes that the story of Josiah Governor, the child who was beaten to death, will “motivate us to be more humane in the way we treat our children”, while TnT River blogs about Everton Vasquez, a minor who “hanged himself after receiving a beating from his grandmother.” Guanaguanare hopes that the story of Josiah

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Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine says 81 per cent of local LNG exports have gone to markets other than the United Sates of America.

General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on November 5, 2007. The records show that the result was a resounding victory for the PNM whose leader, Patrick Manning, boasted that night, before a large crowd of ecstatic supporters that, “we beat them in the east, we beat them in the west, we beat them

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As we say goodbye to the Year of the Rabbit and welcome the Year of the Dragon which starts tomorrow, I would like to take this opportunity to extend New Year greetings to the Chinese community and the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

While politicians in the real world focus on the prospect of another worldwide financial crisis being triggered by problems in the Eurozone, worry about how to combat the ravaging effects of global warming, and decide how best to stop Iran’s ayatollahs from acquiring a nuclear bomb, here in the mythical land of Silkdom, the debate

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Some 57 years ago, Eric Williams authored one of the most significant political pamphlets ever to be written by a Trinidadian.

My wife Saleema was born and raised in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City, so we found ourselves talking and reflecting on two related news items.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday reinforced Government’s commitment to enforcing the death penalty, saying they must do all they can to stop the current ‘tsunami of crime that has hit Trinidad and Tobago’. Delivering the feature address at the opening of the two-day National Security Policy Workshop at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in … (more)

People I meet often say words to the effect that we who remark on current affairs have a lot to write about these days.

If you struggle to follow food recipes, then the visual recipes by Trinidad & Tobago-born architect Vernelle Noel should be easier to follow.

This is the official position coming from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service as stated by Public Information Officer, Sgt Wayne Mystar.

GENDER, Youth and Child Development Minister Verna St Rose-Greaves yesterday expressed grave concern that the nature of crime now taking place in Trinidad and Tobago could be linked to the country’s failure to protect its children.

Judges for the preliminary round of the San Fernando Carnival Committee’s Junior Calypso Monarch Competition had a difficult job yesterday deciding who will advance to the semifinals.

The Nehru jacket, always in fashion with Indian politicians, periodically experiences a spike in its pop culture ratings too.

There was nothing wrong with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar touching the feet of India President Pratibha Devisingh Patil because it was in keeping with religious tradition.

“We are negotiating a joint venture with an Indian group to enter the Indian market in New Delhi and Mumbai.

An offshore oil drilling operation has begun less than 90 miles from the coast of Key West.

Members of the San Fernando Alive Committee and members of the National Chutney Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago at the launch of the new National Carnival Chutney Soca Monarch Competition of Trinidad and Tobago on Monday morning at Atherly’s By the Park.

The Trinidad and Tobago economy contracted by 1.4 per cent last year, according to the latest figures released by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago .

The Head of Delegation of the European Union to Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dutch Overseas Countries and Territories, Ambassador Robert Kopecky yesterday presented his Letters of Credence to CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.

A study on publicly run schools in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has found that, while single-sex schools may benefit female students who prefer a single-sex environment, they are not inherently beneficial for boys or most girls.

A TRINIDAD and Tobago Electricity Commission employee was electrocuted yesterday in Penal while working on overhead high-tension lines.

Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Winston Peters, left, presents a replica of a $2.6 million cheque yesterday at the National Academy for the Performing Arts to Pan Trinbago president, Keith Diaz.

Finance Minister Winston Dookeran said yesterday the last time the State addressed the country’s tax systems was in the 1980s.

Kamla promises full report on India trip Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she would account for the mission and achievements of the visit, as well as the cost and the number of people who participated as members of the Trinidad and Tobago delegation.

Metaldom Signs Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Establishment of a Vertically-Integrated Iron and Steel Complex in Trinidad and Tobago /PRNewswire/ –A The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited , National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Limited , Severstal North America, Complejo Matalurgico Dominicano S.A. and Neal … (more)

But don’t expect a major reversal in monetary policy, say analysts, who expect authorities to continue with fine-tuning policies, rather than embark on an aggressive easing campaign.

Not only her relatives, others too in this Bihar village were busy Thursday discussing how Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar left them with emotions and a ‘lifetime’ of memories after her first ever visit to ancestral land.

KAMLA WEEPS BHELUPUR: It was an emotional pilgrimage for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to her ancestral village Bhelupur, India.

Contractor General Greg Christie is set to make a one-day visit to Trinidad and Tobago to share experiences aimed at assisting in the reform of that country’s procurement framework.

Bottled by House of Angostura in Trinidad & Tobago, the drink is widely available in grocery stores or made to order at the bar with lemonade, muddled lime or lime cordial, and angostura bitters.

In a guest post at Trinidad and Tobago News Blog , rapso artiste Brother Resistance remembers one of the country’s “musical pioneers”, percussionist Ja Jah Oga Onilu, who recently passed away.

Everybody and their uncle has been saying that Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Appeal Court judge Wendell Kangaloo did the right thing by returning their silk, and I really feel everybody should stop badtalking these learned gentlemen in this way.

THE recent controversy surrounding the awarding of “silk” to Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo has resulted in members the Law Association agreeing on the establishment of a special committee to decide whether or not the awarding of Senior Counsel should be abolished.

Built in 1912 in a small thatched hut by Hindu immigrants, it has gone through several phases and renovations and has been the center of community activities.

The Scarabeo 9, a giant semi-submersible oil rig headed to Cuba, set sail from its temporary port in Trinidad and Tobago this week, observers said.

Dominican steelmaker Complejo Metalurgico Dominicano C por A is considering the possibility of becoming a key partner in a steel complex in Trinidad.

THE country is in dire need of specialist doctors and Government is trying to keep local specialists working here instead of abroad, Minister of Health Dr Fuad Khan said yesterday.

THE Police Service is still investigating a complaint made by Caribbean Communications Network chairman Joseph Esau regarding a police raid at the office of TV6 last month, in search of a video recording.

Renowned photographer, Dr Noel Patrick Norton, died peacefully at 9.35 pm on January 12 at West Shore Medical.

DUKE, PSA REBELS FIGHT Another violent clash erupted at the office of the Public Services Association yesterday evening as the group deemed the PSA rebels stormed the union’s offices, on Abercromby Street, Port of Spain, in a bid to reclaim leadership of the association.

This was the view expressed by British Queen’s Counsel Paul Garlick as he took note of the ongoing debate in Trinidad and Tobago regarding the award of Silk.

FORMER prime minister Patrick Manning vetoed the appointment of eminent attorney Clive Phelps to senior counsel in 1993, after Phelps reportedly fell out of favour with the then PNM government over the affairs of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago .

It was a choice of castor oil or church. The Right Reverend Claude Berkely chose the church and was enthroned as the Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

PLANNING and Economy Minister Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie says the Procurement Joint Select Committee, of which he is chairman, is working towards bringing public sector procurement legislation to Parliament in this upcoming term.