Trinidad & Tobago News

Nyan Gadsby-Dolly

Trinidad cuts scholarship programme, tuition aid

(Trinidad Guardian) Less national scholarships will be handed out this year and less people will be able to access Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) funding, after Minister of Education Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly announced major cuts to both programmes on Friday.Gadsby-Dolly

Justin Roopchan, left, speaks about how he and his wife Tiffany Sylvester and their two babies now live at a storage facility in San Juan, after the family was rendered homeless In August this year.

Trinidad: Babies among homeless family of four

(Trinidad Guardian) A family of four, including two children aged 1 and 2, have been living on the streets for almost three months after the landlord put them out because of apparent tardiness by the government to pay a rental assistance grant promised to them.

Vice-President Joe Biden walks with then-Prime MInister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and President Michel Martelly of Haiti, after meeting at the Diplomatic Centre in Port-of-Spain on May 28, 2013.

Trinidad: Kamla told ‘administrative error’ not good enough

(Trinidad Guardian) Political leader of the United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad-Bissessar has apologised to United Kingdom politician Sir Kier Starmer, after her congratulatory message to President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, reflected the exact wording of several of Starmer’s tweets.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Trinidad Opposition Leader issued apparently plagiarised greeting to Biden

(Trinidad Guardian) As congratulations and best wishes continued to pour in for the United States President-elect Joe Biden, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar found herself in hot water when a congratulatory message on her Facebook page posted around noon, reflected the exact wording of several tweets posted by a British diplomat.

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