A significant development that did not attract sufficient media coverage was the reported clash between the Chairman of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) appointed by Parliament to report on government ministries, statutory authorities and state enterprises and the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Utilities and the Environment, Earl Nesbitt...

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 21/11/04

The decision by the DPP to authorise no charges against MP Dr Keith Rowley is still fit for reflection, even after the passage of one week, if for no other reason than that some people have opined that there might be “one law for the poor and another for the powerful...

Denzil Mohammed updated 21/11/04

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 21/11/04

The recent revelation by the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, that there is an agreement between himself, Dr Keith Mitchell and Mr Patrick Manning for a union between St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago is a most interesting development...

Judy Raymond updated 21/11/04

How long can an MP live on $150? Maybe until lunchtime. Old-age pensioners and disabled people, however, are expected to stretch it a lot further than that...

Ira Mathur updated 21/11/04

The holiday season kicked off and I was amidst the collective chattering roar of beautifully dressed people, lulled by the violins, into one of those amiable moments, talking to a banker...

Lennox Grant updated 21/11/04

As Trinidad and Tobago struggles in vain to keep its watercourses clear, its roadways passable, its crime-stressed neighbourhoods livable, and its city streets safe, the Trinity is one cross this country should not also have to bear...

Martin A. George updated 21/11/04

The Prime Minister’s Committee against Crime on which I had the pleasure to sit, and which was chaired by Mr Ken Gordon, came up with the slogan that if you wanted to fix crime you had to “fix me first.” There seems to be a crime being committed now against the people of Trinidad and Tobago and in response the citizens are crying out “Fix me first...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 21/10/04

I’m writing this article sitting in one of the few Grenadian restaurants open after Hurricane Ivan. Called Bananas, it’s on the road to St George’s University and half a rack of ribs, ice cream, and three Black Label rums from Trinidad, cost just TT$100. It’s a tough job being a Sunday Guardian columnist but someone has to do it...

Simon Lee updated 21/11/04

Unemployment, or “being idle” as my Guyanese father-in-law puts it with characteristic lyricism, has its moments...

Debbie Jacob updated 22/11/04

When I was a child growing up on a dairy farm in Ohio I used to dream of visiting far-off lands. I chose the land of my dreams by closing my eyes and spinning a globe. I was delighted to know that my right index finger could make the world stop spinning and pinpoint my destination as well as my destiny...

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 22/11/04

Often we see. We tell. We get cussed out as purveyors of bombast (ask Shakespeare), ne’er-do-wells and naysayers, prevaricators to the highest power...

Leela Ramdeen updated 22/11/04

Linda was referring to the death of Shalima Mohammed, a Cunupia mother of six who was hacked to death in her bed recently. She reportedly withstood more than 15 years of an abusive relationship. Her husband has been charged with her murder...

Dr David E Bratt updated 23/11/04

An allergy is an abnormal reaction of the body to a microscopic foreign substance, usually a protein. These substances enter the body through various ways: through the mouth, through the lungs or through a puncture of the skin...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 23/11/04

On November 11, the Voice newspaper gave a stinging and shocking account of the teen-crime scene in St Lucia...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 23/11/04

Like clockwork: “You is Wonder Woman?” I, “Are you Tommy Hilfiger?” The kind of exchange precipitated by my wearing my red baby-T with the Wonder Woman symbol on the front...

Bukka Rennie updated 24/11/04

Once again the football agenda, this time “The Road to Germany,” is on and the problem that arises is the same as before...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 17/11/04

The following two days’ columns are dedicated to a certain young man, and to other people like himself: who talk about what they don’t know while unabashedly claiming they do know—for God knows whatever reason. Young man, I should have taken your bet, and then taken your money...

Ravi Ji updated 17/11/04

I greet T&T with “Jai Jahaajee.” This year will remain as a most fulfilling Divali for me. It is the Divali period in which I got the most criticisms, yet I feel Mother Lakshmi’s intimate presence in a most powerful way. I also feel greatly connected to, who Sevikaa Mayati Maraj calls Jahaajee Pitris...

Sat Maharaj updated 24/11/04

On November 16, the Maha Sabha, through its secretary Sat Maharaj, and the Islamic Relief Centre, through its leader Inshan Ismael, filed a constitutional motion in the San Fernando Sub-Registry against the Attorney General...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 18/11/04

Money: Mr Manning confuses the implications of having a lot of money with that of having an infinite amount. A fool and his money are soon parted: a lesson Eric Williams’ spending fails to teach...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 18/11/04

The historic need for Latin American and Caribbean integration was felt early on in the 19th century, when the chief leaders and political thinkers understood that their countries’ independence would only be possible through a unified effort...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 18/11/04

What makes someone claim to know more than they know? Is it ego? Fear of being seen as stupid? Is in, in fact, just stupidity?

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 18/11/04

Was reaffirmation of their commitment to establishing the Single Market by the end of 2005 with T&T, Barbados and Jamaica keeping to their promise to be ready for free movement of workers and trade without hindrances sufficient of an achievement by the Heads of Government at their Port-of-Spain summit?

Attillah Springer updated 20/11/04

“Is Bush hitting dat?” A typically male question when a powerful woman becomes more powerful. I read the negative comments on an online message board, recoiling from the screen as if I’d been slapped by the rawness, the renkness of their words...

Gail Alexander updated 20/11/04

It was anyone’s guess what might have run through Tourism Minister Howard Chin Lee’s mind as he sat next to National Security Minister Martin Joseph at Whitehall’s press room on Thursday...