Author: Clint Chan Tack
OUTGOING Naparima MP Rodney Charles has predicted UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar will not choose four incumbent UNC MPs who have publicly questioned her ability to lead the party to victory in the next general election. Those MPs are Rushton Paray, Anita Haynes-Alleyne, Dinesh Rambally and Dr Rai Ragbir. All of them filed nominations in […]
PATRIOTIC Front political leader Mickela Panday and the PNM’s women’s league paid tribute to the resilience of men in separate International Men’s Day messages on November 19. In her message, Panday paid special tribute to her father, former prime minister Basdeo Panday, who died on January 1. She said, “I take a moment to reflect […]
RURAL Development and Local Government Minister Faris Al-Rawi says exaggerations fuelled by political motives are not helpful to people who were affected by flooding on November 14. He made this comment in response to a question from Couva North MP Ravi Ratiram in the House of Representatives on November 15. Al-Rawi observed that the question […]
FORMER Barbados senator Kristina Hinds says there may not be any real change in US policy towards the Caribbean and Latin America after Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th US president on January 20. She expressed this view during a virtual forum on the November 4 US presidential election hosted by the University of […]
FORMER political allies, the National Transformation Alliance (NTA) and the Opposition UNC, have differed over the Judiciary’s policy to exclude guns from courtrooms. This policy has been in place since 2015. In a statement on November 8, the Judiciary said a police officer went to the O’Meara Judicial Complex and, after refusing to comply with […]
THE Patriotic Front (PF) has extended congratulations to president-elect Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris for their participation in the November 5 US presidential election. Trump defeated Harris by 295-226 electoral votes. He will be inaugurated as the 47th US president on January 20. In a statement, the PF said, “We recognise the […]
NATIONAL Transformation Alliance (NTA) political leader Gary Griffith says Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election on November 6 shows people do not have to support traditional political racehorses in an election, if their jockeys cannot lead them to victory. He made these comments on November 6 after congratulating Trump on his 277-224 vote […]
REPUBLICAN candidate and former president Donald Trump has won the November 5 US presidential election. The race for the White House was a tight one, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump going down to the wire in the push for the magical number of 270 electoral votes needed to become the 47th US president. […]
FORMER finance minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira says an alleged breach of privacy by Finance Minister Colm Imbert, in inquiring about whether or not an importer approached the EximBank for a foreign exchange (forex) request, is unacceptable. She also said this is part of the well known political strategy of deflection, to divert the public’s attention from […]
YOUTH entrepreneur Keron Rose says he understands the concern that people have over the restriction on the use of their debit cards to make US-dollar withdrawals overseas and US-dollar spending limits on their credit cards. Rose, who is an information communication technology (IT) specialist and columnist with Newsday’s Business Day magazine, said he has sought […]