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T&T's doing better than United States If Prime Minister Patrick Manning's data for T&T is correct, it means the country is doing much better than the United States, at least in the area of jobs, Nobel Economics Prize winner, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, has said.

Manning: CHOGM to aid Copenhagen PRIME Minister Patrick Manning yesterday said he was optimistic this week's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting could overcome the pessimism surrounding next month's United Nations Climate Change Talks in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The speech made by Prime Minister Patrick Manning at the hand-over of the Academy for the Performing Arts was really a revelation; it contained his interpretation of sustainable social welfare development which he encapsulates in his Vision 2020.

COMMONWEALTH and local human rights groups are calling on Commonwealth leaders, including Prime Minister Patrick Manning, to ban the participation of the President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh at the Heads of Government meeting later this month in light of statements he made threatening to kill persons affiliated with human rights groups in his country.

A draft climate change policy for Trinidad and Tobago was submitted to the Cabinet yesterday, less than a week before the issue is set to take centre stage during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port of Spain.

Naparima College, San Fernando principal Michael Dowlath, left, looks on as Prime Minister Patrick Manning unveils a plaque to officially open the new school's auditorium.

THE mother and stepfather of the woman who made allegations against both Prime Minister Patrick Manning and his wife yesterday begged a Port of Spain magistrate to send the woman for psychiatric evaluation.

Mr Patrick Manning His Excellency the Prime Minister Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Dear Prime Minister Manning: I write as the Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative .

The very brief meeting Prime Minister Patrick Manning had with Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday behind the House Speaker's chair during yesterday's House of Representatives session involved a handshake.

Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday last evening accepted a new invitation from Prime Minister Patrick Manning for consultations on an issue dealing with crime next week.

The original design of the National Carnival and Entertainment Centre . In April 2007 Prime Minister Patrick Manning said, construction of the proposed centre came to a halt because the design was being reviewed.

United National Congress Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh has written to the Ag Police Commissioner and Ag Director of Public Prosecutions requesting a criminal probe into senior managers of the Central Bank and certain State-owned companies to determine whether they have breached insurance laws by failing to properly monitor and regulate some ...

Prime Minister Patrick Manning is appealing to protesting prisons officers to be more responsible.

CHOGM limits berthing space at port The Port Authority says effective November 22 to 30, berths three, four, five and six at the Port of Port-of-Spain will not be available.

T&T officially in recession, says Williams TT 'technically' in recession THIS country is technically in a recession, Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams admitted yesterday saying that real Gross Domestic Product is estimated to have declined for the second quarter of 2009 by 3.6 percent compared to the second quarter 2008.

Jeremie: Nation losing young males to crime ATTORNEY GENERAL John Jeremie says the influx of women into the teaching service may be the main reason why there are so many young men in jail today BUILD YOUR OWN Manning tells promoters who want to use Stadium for fetes: The people criticising Government's Academy for the Performing Arts and its ...

Photo: Tony Howell Yvonne Webb Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday that fete promoters will not use the Government to make money on citizens' heads.

Previous attempts at co-operation between the team in government and the party in opposition have had some measure of success, at least on the basis of passing legislation in the Parliament.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning should apologise to the Trinidad and Tobago Muslim Organisation and the government of Saudi Arabia.

SPORT Minister Gary Hunt is convinced that the $2 million national flag that flutters over the Hasely Crawford Stadium would instil national pride in the populace.