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Opposition Leader Godwin Friday interacts with protesters after being ordered to leave Parliament on Tuesday. (iWN photo)

Opposition Leader forced out of Parliament; embattled senator allowed to stay

Leader of the Opposition Godwin Friday has described as “a travesty of democracy”, the decision by House Speaker, Rochelle Forde, to expel him from Parliament on Tuesday, even as government…

13 May 2021 12:10PM

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VIDEO: Protest rocks Kingstown

12 May 2021 5:34PM

Member of Parliament for Central Kingstown, St. Clair Leacock. (iWN file photo)

PM’s salary comment a spider’s welcome to a fly — Leacock

8 Apr 2021 7:24AM

Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves. (iWN file photo)

TCI unaware of Camillo’s 200 Sandals job for Vincies

23 Mar 2021 4:56AM

Tax increase not ‘callous’, ‘wicked’, ‘unconscionable’, murderation’ — Camillo

18 Mar 2021 8:43AM

Opposition Leader Godwin Friday. (File photo by S. Ollivierre/API)

‘A wicked tax at this time’ — Friday

Parliament, on Tuesday, passed a law moving the Customs Service Charge from 5% to 6%, a change that Opposition Leader Godwin Friday told lawmakers will have “a very significant effect…

18 Mar 2021 6:52AM

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