Dawn Dolly did not die in vain. Her death has caused senators and MPs to face the awful reality of the death of someone close to all of them...

Candace Guppy updated 14/11/04

Somehow, a copy of an address given at a prize-giving exercise by the principal of Fatima College came into my possession. Although couched in strong language it was an impassioned plea for us to be careful in our handling of change...

Dana Seetahal updated 14/11/04

The headlines in two daily newspapers on Divali day should be cause for concern as to the state of our country’s national security...

Denzil Mohammed updated 31/10/04

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 14/11/04

The announcement last week that the UNC would make a decision in the next two weeks about its position on the holding of its national executive elections raises a number of questions for the party...

Judy Raymond updated 07/11/04

Legal Affairs Minister Danny Montano came to the Senate on Tuesday bearing news of a triumph—vast improvements in the efficiency of a government department that every citizen has to deal with sooner or later...

Ira Mathur updated 14/11/04

I have lived in Trinidad long enough for my heart to lurch at the sight of the Northern Range on a plane home after a trip abroad...

Lennox Grant updated 14/11/04

At a community centre, on a Point Cumana side street last Sunday, the Keith Rowley National Movement was born. It popped out like a cork under pressure of slaps to the base of the bottled-up resentments that gave him a sense of victimisation...

Martin A. George updated 14/11/04

Sitting here in the cozy warmth of the Starbucks café on National Boulevard in Long Beach, it is blustery outside with the cold November rain, as the logs on the fireplace crackle and sizzle and Christmas carols are playing sweetly in the background as the singer wishes that you “Have yourself a merry little Christmas...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 14/10/04

I’ve spent the last few weeks in Grenada, and we should be very proud of the superb job the different workers from T&T have been doing. Grenadians have been unstinting in their praise...

Simon Lee updated 14/11/04

So folks we’ve been bushwhacked, which is fine if you’re an Iraqi-kicking oily-minded Texan (and I’m sure there are a few lurking down in Point Galeota or downing pipelines of lager in the Pelican) but for the rest of the world it’s not good news…Just joking Dubya, who loves ya baby...

Debbie Jacob updated 15/11/04

Education isn’t what it used to be. Most trips to a restaurant are a sad reminder of this...

Fr Henry Charles updated 15/11/04

In 1991, Andrew Hacker, the distinguished professor of political science at Queen’s College, of the City University of New York, published Two Nations: Black and White...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 15/11/04

Just that morning I’d penned: “A man can read a few books and most of society will see him as a self-styled savant, but a woman can dedicate decades to nourishing and advancing her grey matter, and many folks, uneducated and otherwise, will choose to see her as a dimwit who managed to learn a few big words...

Leela Ramdeen updated 15/11/04

Instead of allowing diversity of race and culture to become a limiting factor in human exchange and development, we must refocus our understanding, discern in such diversity the potential for mutual enrichment...

Dr David E Bratt updated 16/11/04

The past four weeks have been particularly bad ones for children who have a respiratory problem. Everyone has a runny nose. All who wheeze are wheezing. Those with croup are crouping and snoring is the order of the day, or night...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 16/11/04

There is a cry for strong leadership in our nation. It is a relevant and responsible cry. Those who make this call must not be attacked, ridiculed or victimised. The cry is the call and the call is the cry...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 16/11/04

Here’s a message for everybody, but mainly for some young local males of a certain racial bracket, who have an inability or unwillingness to open their minds to anything that does not reflect your own limited knowledge...

Bukka Rennie updated 10/11/04

In an earlier time when I was involved full time in radical politics, I always had cause to forewarn colleagues that having the correct line did not guarantee anyone victory or success in any way...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 10/11/04

Perhaps if I were learning some other language. Spanish, say, and people would be like, “That’s practical!”: what with trade negotiations reportedly opening up between the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela; not to mention the ever-increasing flocks of Venezuelans populating our island and acting like they own the place...

Ravi Ji updated 10/11/04

A week ago, I made a call to put a hold on Divali celebrations 2004 as atonement for forgetting the 120th anniversary of the Jahaajee Massacre of October 30, 1884, at Balidaan Tolaa, Mon Repos San Fernando...

Sat Maharaj updated 10/11/04

Ravindranath Maharaj, aka Raviji, made a call last week that Hindus should abandon Divali 2004 because they did not attend his Jahaji Massacre memorial at Mon Repos, San Fernando, on October 30...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 11/11/04

Every child born healthy was a potential master of mathematics. It is culture—parents, inadequate teachers, ideas, or the difficult transition from vernacular to the English of the textbook—which explain mathematical illiterates. Do not depend on the Ministry of Education to change this...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 11/11/04

October 25-28, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the Association of Caribbean States, together with the Government of the Dominican Republic, held two important fora that contribute to the strengthening of trade among the countries of the Greater Caribbean...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 11/11/04

Ah me, it’s exactly as I said yesterday: “Often, people are not prepared to accept someone’s interest in a thing they themselves are not interested...What’s more, they’ll mock, ridicule, insult someone for their deemed deviating desire.”

Ravi-ji updated 04/11/04

Stop Divali! Look, this is hard. But sometimes it is like that; a tough call. Can we handle a tough call?

Tony Fraser updated 11/11/04

President George W Bush touched hardcore conservative values and, most significantly, drove his base into a deep fear of terrorists strikes on the US...

Attillah Springer updated 13/11/04

It wasn’t until the other day when I was at a doctor’s office with a needle sticking out of my eye that I realised what a pointless emotion fear is...

Gail Alexander updated 13/11/04

If there were timbers in the Carenage building, they might have shivered. Rafters around the structure probably shook...