Anand Ramlogan updated 16/05/04

In as much as freedom of the press is once again the topic of the day, I think it is important that we take note of what is perhaps the most historic judgment, how far the right to freedom of the press goes when it collides with the individual’s right to privacy, delivered by the House of Lords in favour of supermodel Naomi Campbell...

Candace Guppy updated 16/05/04

We need people. There are numerous examples of children being raised by animals, exhibiting the characteristics of their primary care giver. Thus we read about the “dog boy,” Horst or the “wolf boy,” raised by a dog and wolves, respectively...

Dana Seetahal updated 16/05/04

I found the reported statement by the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association: “The murder of business people does not augur well for the future expansion of business,” somewhat inexplicable, and even disturbing in its seeming arrogance...

Denzil Mohammed updated 09/05/04

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 16/05/04

Recent events have served to highlight the challenges facing the society as it seeks to understand the meaning of the concept of “Vision 2020...

Judy Raymond updated 16/05/04

When, on Friday, Agriculture Minister Jarrette Narine listed some of the questions that should be asked in an agricultural census, the Opposition already knew the answers...

Lennox Grant updated 16/05/04

As Eudine Job-Davis and Fitzgerald Hinds read over his shoulders, it is Keith Rowley who is writing the book on party political loyalty in the era of Patrick Manning...

Martin A. George updated 16/05/04

The Cohabitational Relationships Act 1998, gave the High Court jurisdiction to make any order or grant any relief under that Act in relation to cohabitants, including, inter alia, the powers to make orders in relation to property and orders declaring a title or right or adjusting an interest...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 16/05/04

My last few articles produced a flood of e-mail. One reader made the excellent suggestion that shares on the Stock Exchange be made available at Lotto outlets, so when people go to have a little flutter they could buy a few of shares in a company as well...

Simon Lee updated 25/04/04

IT’S not easy, as the Rolling Stones sang many years ago, and look at them still rocking after all those years. But seriously, la dolce vita, London style, has positively burst its seams this last fortnight. So where to begin...

Debbie Jacob updated 17/05/04

Somewhere, somebody must be trying to make sense of all the nonsense going on in Iraq. I wish I could say I was that person, but I have been rather clueless since this whole fiasco began...

Fr Henry Charles updated 10/05/04

The experience (or the thought) of unrelenting pain, being hooked up to machines, losing bodily integrity, and becoming an emotional and financial burden to loved ones, creates a climate of receptiveness to euthanasia and its more recent form, physician-assisted suicide...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 17/05/04

Consider — what does it say about women that nearly one in two will be sexually victimised? And what does it say about men that many of us are sexually victimising...

Leela Ramdeen updated 17/05/04

How does each of us demonstrate our love for our family? What are the challenges that T&T faces in seeking to create structures nationally and locally that will support families to become what they are and to believe in what they are? Investing in our families is investing in society as a whole...

Lennox Powder updated 19/04/04

Like other organic entities, society strives to preserve, perpetuate and even propagate itself. In one form or another education (the term being used throughout to encompass training as well) has been society’s prime instrument in that mission, simultaneously capturing, structuring and transmitting society’s way of life, ranging from the primitive culture of ancient civilisation to the sophisticated science, technology, division of labour, entertainment, ethics etc of modern society...

Dr David E Bratt updated 18/05/04

“You writing too negative,” she said. “So what you want me to write about? You see anything positive going on?”

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 18/05/04

The nation was traumatised by revelations of alleged wrongdoing in the Police Service. There are many who believe that police officers should not be asked to conduct any inquiry into the conduct of other police officers...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 18/05/04

Just because a woman denies believing in the prevalence of rape does not mean she herself has not been raped...

Bukka Rennie updated 19/05/04

Seldom has the contribution of Chinese immigrants to T&T ever been discussed and analysed. Save, of course, for the excellent two pieces of work by Walton Look-Lai, himself a product of the local Chinese community, and the book written by Mr Millette which was commissioned by the leadership of the local Chinese Association...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 21/04/04

The 21st century has brought, as part of its agenda, the obligation to search for responses to globalisation since the world order is geared toward new schemes of relations among countries, according to which the influence of the will of each of these countries, seen individually, loses relevance. This has produced the need for multilateralism and the need to create the different association blocs that have proliferated globally...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 19/05/04

Women who won’t stand up actively, passionately, vociferously, angrily against the activity of rape are inviting it...

Ravi Ji updated 19/05/04

Ganga Dhaaraa Teerath, an annual pilgrimage to Ganga Dhaaraa in the Northern Range, will be held on June 6, 2004 from 4 am...

Sat Maharaj updated 19/05/04

Our youth cannot imagine the chronology of pain that was a day in the life of an indentured barrack Indian. There were no clocks. The crowing of cocks awakened the bone-weary barrack dwellers. These birds, another Indian import, survived by scratching around for the unlikely scraps that may have been abandoned by the malnourished brotherhood of poverty inhabiting the hovels of despair...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 20/05/04

Millions of real Indians are ashamed of racism, communalism, or devotion to flaunting caste as the measure of human value. There, identity is not defined by affected rejection of imagined Africanness...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 20/05/04

Imagine, it’s the people who aren’t raped, and the people who rape, who get to say what rape is. However, Rus Ervin Funk, in, Stopping Rape: A Challenge for Men, asserts, “Sexual Assault: any forced or unwanted sexual contact as defined by the victim/survivor.”

Norman Girvan updated 26/02/04

On March 1 the new Secretary General of the ACS, Dr Rubén Silié, takes over the Secretariat. As I pass the baton on to my successor, I cannot help reflecting on the challenges of the past four years...

Tony Fraser updated 20/05/04

Prime Minister Patrick Manning, the National Security Council chaired by the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Security, the special squad headed by Brigadier Joseph, the Police Service and the government’s social programmes to steer young people away from criminality have not achieved in the last 30 months the kind of results that would persuade citizens that their lives and property are more secure than they previously were...

Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce updated 20/05/04

A fortnight ago, the capital city of Port-of-Spain was locked down by law-enforcement agencies as a result of telephone calls to several public sector buildings, which warned of bombs therein, coupled with “intelligence” by police officers that cars with insurgents, arms and ammunition were headed in that direction...

Attillah Springer updated 15/05/04

It wasn’t just all the emails being circulated this week with pictures of grown men on leashes or of women in chadors being raped by men in camouflage...

Gail Alexander updated 08/05/04

When in doubt, look to the British model. That’s the direction in which the Manning administration glanced last week concerning the critical issue of communication...

Nirad Tewarie updated 15/05/04

On Sunday evening, I got a ticket. Heading North, I exited the Solomon Hochoy Highway at Chaguanas and made a right turn when I got to the Main Road. There are two signs that outlaw right turns and force you to go all the way into Chaguanas...