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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen next month. "The prime minister has made a decision," his spokesman Dimitri Soudas told reporters on the plane in Ottawa shortly before taking off to Port of Spain....
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Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday’s leadership of the UNC has never been challenged and on the heels of his announcement that he will be defending his position, several of his colleagues yesterday asserted that there is no one to match him, including Deputy...
Tags: UNC, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Elections in Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday, Patrick Manning, Panday, United National Congress, Trinidad and Tobago general election, Politics, Congress of the People
Patrick Manning yesterday declared that Government was prepared to lower corporation tax to encourage more foreign investors to do business in Trinidad and Tobago. Manning made this declaration as he opened the Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF) at the...
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President moves to appoint members six months after Integrity Commission fiasco Anna Ramdass Tuesday, November 24th 2009 Six months following the collapse of the Integrity Commission, President George Maxwell Richards is ready to appoint new people to...
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US President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday. Obama says the United States and China are looking for a comprehensive deal during next month's climate change summit...
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Opposition gets in on crime talks Juhel Browne jbrowne@trinidadexpress.com Thursday, November 19th 2009 Opposition MPs are due to receive amendments to the Evidence (Amendment) bill today, based on recommendations a team of their representatives submitted...
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Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday says the ball is in now the court of Congress of the People Leader Winston Dookeran on the issue of unity, as he (Panday) has done his duty and sent a letter to him last week inviting him to meet. Asserting that the UNC...
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Unions have power to stop tax Juhel Browne jbrowne@trinidadexpress.com Tuesday, November 17th 2009 Trade unions are in a much better position than the two main opposition political parties to mobilise the population against the Government’s proposed...
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Trinidadian(s) and Tobagonian(s). (Note: A popular combination name for Trinidadians and Tobagonians is Trinbagonians.) Population (2007 est.): 1,303,188...Ethnic groups (2000): East Indian 40.0%, African 37.5%, mixed 20.5%, European 0.6%, Chinese 0.3%,...
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Case for proportional representation Saturday, November 14th 2009 Prime Minister Patrick Manning and some other citizens have rejected proportional representation (PR)...We’ve been hearing from many quarters for many years that one simply can’t get the...
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