Ria Taitt

1 week ago | trinidadexpress.com | Ria Taitt

No more pension stress. And no more frustration with poor public service delivery. And no more anxiety in accessing social support grants. Titled “A bold new chapter”, the 182-page PNM manifesto focuses on public service delivery, specifically seeking to address the persistent gaps long evident and too glaring to ignore in the face of growing demands and discontent from the public.

1 week ago | trinidadexpress.com | Ria Taitt

“THE UNC could have him.”So said PNM political leader Dr Keith Rowley as he commented on former attorney general John Jeremie’s appearance on a UNC platform on Monday night and his strong endorsement of the UNC. “I will not go so low as to call him a vagrant. We all remember the trail of blunders he left behind when he demitted office 15 years ago. John Jeremie has a lot to answer for, and to questions asked by the very UNC, the police and others.

1 week ago | trinidadexpress.com | Ria Taitt

Does former prime minister and current PNM leader Dr Keith Rowley find it unsettling that he left office with public servants having 2013/2014 salaries while the salaries and pensions of politicians and top managers in the public service were increased? Rowley addressed this issue in response to a question posed by the Express last Wednesday in an interview at the party’s Balisier House headquarters, Port of Spain.

1 week ago | trinidadexpress.com | Ria Taitt

“I want to tell them tonight, big jackass, small jackass, same lasso, we coming for them,” Attorney General Camille Robinson-Regis declared as she addressed a PNM public meeting at the Croisee in San Juan on Friday night. “And yuh know why we coming for them? Because they bad-talk Trinidad and Tobago at every turn they get. They bad-talk this country with the US over Venezuela. They wanted (Juan) Guaido (Venezuelan politician); now Guaido is like Zambo, nowhere to be found,” she said.

1 week ago | trinidadexpress.com | Ria Taitt

Dr Keith Rowley, who retired as prime minister at midnight on March 16, says he does not miss being PM. Asked the question in an interview with the Sunday Express last Wednesday, he said: “Right now? Nothing. I was quite prepared not to be prime minister. If you are not in love with it (the office), you can leave it and not be traumatised. I am not traumatised.