Last week the Privy Council dismissed an important appeal that has brought an end to one of the worst cases of brutality by a police officer in our nation’s history. It involved the shooting, at point-blank range...

Candace Guppy updated 20/03/05

Apart from some missing pitch on the airport runway, there is something of even greater importance missing from the airport—our culture...

Caroline Ravello updated 20/03/05

The transformation has begun,” boasted the full-colour, full-page advertisement, paid for with my money and without my permission by the Ministry of National Insecurities...

Dana Seetahal updated 20/03/05

In the aftermath of the Abu Bakr conspiracy trial, several issues that arose after the failure of the jury to agree have provided food for thought and for discussion and argument across the country...

Denzil Mohammed updated 20/03/05

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 20/03/05

As the debate continues over the doctrine of the Separation of Powers, it is useful to examine some aspects of its operation in Trinidad and Tobago so as to appreciate its unique identity here as opposed to the United Kingdom...

Ira Mathur updated 20/03/05

Like most of us I like cranking up the music in my car as I drive, my own mini karaoke party, before the attrition of the day starts its incessant gnawing...

Judy Raymond updated 20/03/05

Erstwhile Attorney General Glenda Morean was fairly entertaining when she was in the Senate, though not always by design. But since she became High Commissioner to London she’s positively a celebrity, with parliamentarians eager to hear about every move she makes...

Lennox Grant updated 20/03/05

Trial by media,” with its old evocations of overkill coverage dooming chances for fairness in the court, likely gained new meaning in T&T this week...

Martin A. George updated 20/03/05

There has been a tremendous escalation of prices in the real estate market in Trinidad over the last 12 months or so and by all predictions of scribes and pundits, and given the outlook for the economy, it is set to continue on this upward trend for a while again...

Overand Padmore updated 20/03/05

Both sides of the House of Representatives, the popularly elected House, have committed themselves to constitution reform in principle...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 20/03/05

When does your madness become an embarrassment? Is it when the Ministry of Planning and Development, without any sense of shame, issues a statement (statement issued on February 18) to say that only 39 per cent of our citizens live on US$2 a day and not more, as reported by the UNDP...

Simon Lee updated 13/03/05

This glorious Thor’s day morning while the Big Fug wraps itself outside in its customary cloak of grey bone-chilling dankness, inside the conservatory in Bampton Road a fabulous mood prevails which all self-respecting salseros will understand...

Debbie Jacob updated 21/03/05

Ahoy, mate! I see your ship has just arrived. I understand it was a rough ride on the SEA. Isn’t it great to have your feet planted on firm, solid ground once again? Actually, your feet were always planted firmly...

Fr Henry Charles updated 21/03/05

Confidentiality is something that doesn’t exist in Trinidad. A secret here is something you tell other people, one person at a time...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 21/03/05

Once derogatory, the term dougla has now become so accepted that people have started calling all manner of mixed-race people Dougla... and it’s not fair...

Leela Ramdeen updated 21/03/05

Last week I participated in the public participation phase of the communications campaign of the Vision 2020 Planning Committee. I wish to commend those students who were present for their excellent input in the discussions...

Dr David E Bratt updated 15/03/05

Too often the precious fertile years from birth to three years of age are wasted by parents who feel that the child is too young to learn...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 15/03/05

People neglect the pure, pragmatic science comprising universal justice. E=mc2; and the gravity that thugs at whatever goes up, making it “must come down,” are not metaphysical conundrums but basic science, we can all agree. And what is karmic consequence if not the equation e=mc2...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 15/03/05

It is true that we are galloping at a frenetic pace in 2005, as if we are determined to allow the murder rate to climb over the fatalities of 2004...

Bukka Rennie updated 16/03/05

I was of the opinion that when the French-creole looking fellah with the handle-bar moustache had departed West Indian cricket that we would be free at last of that kind of administrator and overseer, of that kind of relationship between the powerful and the subordinate, that has underlined Caribbean history and Caribbean civilisation from the very inception...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 16/03/05

It’s often said the world has to be the way it is: there must be good and bad so there can be balance...

Ravi Ji updated 09/02/05

A friend who had just read about the dress code issue in court involving SC Israel Khan thundered, “Now everybody only fighting stupid petty issues.” He sounded as exasperated as the suggestion, “Should the country look forward to Bobo Shanti turbans and Rastafarian robes lending colour to the barristers’ bench, alongside the fez, skull cap and gowns now seen only on celebrity Muslim accused?”

Sat Maharaj updated 16/03/05

Indo-Trinidadians and Hindus in particular are threatened by ideas that have failed in every country where government used state power to prefer one group...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 17/03/05

“Peter denied Christ thrice,” Tara said in amazement. The headline was bold: “PNM minister denies knowledge of Abu Bakr.” Mr Manning is a born-again Christian and Mrs Yuille-Williams has not denied moral and spiritual values of that creed...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 17/03/05

A few years ago, in April 1999, the Heads of State and/or Government of the Association of Caribbean States met in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at the association’s second summit...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 03/03/05

People neglect the pure, pragmatic science comprising universal justice. E=mc squared and the gravity that tugs at whatever goes up, making it “must come down,” are not metaphysical conundrums but basic science, we can all agree. And what is karmic consequence if not the equation E=mc squared...

Philip G Rochford updated 17/03/05

There is a view that life is an illusion. This stems from the fact that people see the same thing quite differently. The argument goes that if the events and items were factual and real all people would see the same thing. While people may see the same thing quite differently, it does not necessarily follow that life is an illusion...

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 17/03/05

As A follow-up observation to the third of “one dozen effective actions” for “one safe nation” being advocated by Communities Mobilising Against Crime and carried by this column last week, Jamaica, with 300 killings for the year, has done a similar thing: bring in a Scotland Yard detective with 29 years of crime-fighting experience as its deputy commissioner of police...

Attillah Springer updated 19/03/05

If you’re happy and you know it, please clap your hand. Please let me know that there are still people out there who aren’t battling with misery. Whose smiles aren’t really grimaces. Who feel some level of satisfaction with their lives...

Gail Alexander updated 19/03/05

If the National Security Ministry escaped in-depth scrutiny by the 26-member Cabinet at Government’s February retreat, the last three weeks has given the public ample opportunity for catch-up in examining the ministry’s performance...