Category Archives: UNC

COP, Features, Finance, General T&T, People's Partnership, Politics, Protest, UNC

Smelter, rapid rail in limbo, water taxi to stay

6 Comments

Water Taxi
Water Taxi
By Raffique Shah
June 02, 2010

‘IT would be foolish of the new government to simply abandon all projects started or even planned by the PNM regime. But we have a mandate from the people to immediately take action on some of their billion-dollar plants and plans. I believe the people voted against the Alutrint smelter at La Brea. They voted against Mr Colm Imbert’s rapid rail. They voted against ex-prime minister Patrick Manning’s offshore Otaheite industrial island.
Continue reading Smelter, rapid rail in limbo, water taxi to stay →

General T&T, Law, Media, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, UNC

Jack can hold Cabinet and FIFA posts

55 Comments

Works and Transport Minister and FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner
Works & Transport Minister and FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner
UPDATE: Jun 18, 2010

KAMLA: JACK STAYS PUT
FOUR eminent legal counsels hired by the Government have advised Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her Cabinet that Jack Warner is not breaking any law by simultaneously holding the posts of Works and Transport Minister and vice president of the world football body, FIFA.

PM: If his workload is too much, I’ll act
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner will remain as Minister of Works and Transport, although he holds the post of vice president of the international football body, FIFA.
Continue reading Jack can hold Cabinet and FIFA posts →

Food, General T&T, People's Partnership, Politics, UNC

Bharath: Use Caroni lands to grow food

3 Comments

Caroni

‘Stop the many housing projects’

By Adrian Boodan
June 04, 2010 – guardian.co.tt

Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath wants all lands that were under the control of Caroni (1975) Ltd to be returned to his ministry. Bharath was speaking with the media, during a visit to farmers in Cunupia yesterday. Bharath said when the PNM administration shut down state-owned sugar producer, the lands were handed to the Ministry of Finance for disposal. He said he wanted to see the stopping of all housing developments started by the former government on these lands.
Continue reading Bharath: Use Caroni lands to grow food →

COP, General T&T, NJAC, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, UNC

People’s Partnership plan for 120 days of immediate action

11 Comments

LEFT: David Abdullah of the Movement for Social Justice, Congress of the People (COP) political leader Winston Dookeran, Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) leader Ashworth Jack, United National Congress (UNC) leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) political leader Makandal Daaga, and chairman of the Movement for Social Justice Errol McLeod.
The People's Partnership
1. Every child going on to secondary school from the SEA will be provided with a laptop to begin their secondary school education.

2. We will begin addressing the issue of securing and expanding GATE.

3. We will rescind the property tax.
Continue reading People’s Partnership plan for 120 days of immediate action →

Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, India, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, UNC

Ministry of Multiculturalism

8 Comments

Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarayan Maharaj
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarayan Maharaj (Photo: Phagwa celebrations 2010)
Look to Canada for help

By Sat Maharaj
Jun 03, 2010 – guardian.co.tt

For a number of years the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha has been advocating that the Ministry of Culture be renamed the Ministry of Multiculturalism with all the attendant policy changes. On May 28, at the SDMS Indian Arrival Day dinner at the Centre of Excellence, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that she heard the Maha Sabha’s call and that the Ministry of Arts and Culture would be renamed the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism. We have always advocated the culture of a country in the spontaneous expressions of the people and that the State has no business in culture except as a facilitator. The State must not decide which of the various cultures of our land should receive enhanced funding and which shouldn’t. Political affiliation and support must not be the measure of state support.
Continue reading Ministry of Multiculturalism →

corruption, Crime in T&T, General T&T, International, Law, People's Partnership, Politics, UDeCOTT, UNC

Let justice take its course

9 Comments

Newsday Editorial
June 03, 2010 – newsday.co.tt

Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve FergusonWe must assume that Attorney General Anand Ramlogan’s demurral in the face of questions regarding persons slated for extradition to the United States was based upon caution alone—he having not seen the relevant correspondence in the matter.
Continue reading Let justice take its course →

Complaints, COP, corruption, Elections, General T&T, Media, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, UDeCOTT, UNC

People’s Punishment

8 Comments

Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning
Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning
By Raffique Shah
May 30, 2010

I don’t know of anyone, from political analysts to columnists like myself, who accurately read the swing that saw the People’s Partnership barrel its way through PNM strongholds to win a resounding victory in last Monday’s general elections. True, new Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the COP’s Winston Dookeran were trumpeting from their platforms: there will be no safe seats for the PNM. But that call to arms was prompted more by expectations than predictions.
Continue reading People’s Punishment →

COP, Elections, General T&T, Law, NJAC, People's Partnership, Photos, Politics, UNC, Videos

Anand Ramlogan is Attorney General

3 Comments

May 26, 2010

Anand Ramlogan is sworn in as the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
Anand Ramlogan is sworn in as the Attorney General
Anand Ramlogan is AG
San Fernando-based attorney Anand Ramolgan has been appointed Attorney General of T&T. Following the swearing-in of Kamla Persad-Bissessar as Prime Minister, Ramlogan, 37, was sworn in as a senator and made the new attorney general of the country.
Continue reading Anand Ramlogan is Attorney General →

corruption, Elections, General T&T, PNM, Politics, UDeCOTT, UNC

Proud to Be Trinbagonian

5 Comments

By Stephen Kangal
May 27, 2010

Patrick ManningThe peaceful and civilized conduct and determination of the 2010 elections without incidents in which there was so much at stake for the incumbent regime makes me feel proud to be trini. The tenour of this election signals that T&T has achieved a note-worthy and qualitative leap in several aspects in the evolution of our political culture. This is the people’s achievement acting collectively to get the politics and its operating environment right.
Continue reading Proud to Be Trinbagonian →