The Telecommunications Authority of T&T (Tatt) has issued warnings to five radio stations “to refrain from airing programs which were less than palatable.” Tatt is warning stations that it will revoke their licences and close them down...

Candace Guppy updated 10/04/05

As I write, this there is a great deal of sadness within me. Death has crept into my circle once again. I abhor how death creeps upon us giving no warning or sign. We are not allowed to say any last words or do anything that can make a lasting impression...

Caroline Ravello updated 10/04/05

Last week was one of prince and princess consorting all the way to the chapel with a queen showing heart and attending a ceremony she coolly felt would go off well without her...

Dana Seetahal updated 10/04/05

Last Wednesday I was speaking to Wayne Hayde about his current job, when it brought home to me how deprived our Police Service is in many ways...

Denzil Mohammed updated 10/04/05

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 10/04/05

Last Thursday, Dr Ali Bacher, the renowned South African cricket administrator and former Test cricketer, made a call for the extension of the use of technology to assist standing umpires on the field of play to make more informed decisions in crucial...

Ira Mathur updated 10/04/05

I have always been fascinated by perspective. The way four people can be present at one event, or one country and experience it in an entirely different way depending where they are coming from. Lawrence Durrell does it beautifully in the Alexandria Quartet’s weaving the voices of four friends in the sultry musky sunshine of that ancient city...

Judy Raymond updated 10/04/05

The reason Local Government Minister Rennie Dumas is in the Senate is in order to annoy Opposition Senator Robin Montano...

Lennox Grant updated 10/04/05

As the country gets accustomed to its Prime Minister’s being regularly marked absent, what he does and says on occasions he shows up claims higher than usual attention...

Martin A. George updated 10/04/05

Now there are few people who could love our national airline more than myself. There is no airline in the world that can match the warmth and hospitality of our Bwee...

Overand Padmore updated 10/04/05

Last week’s column took note of the 24th anniversary of the passing of T&T’s first Prime Minister, Dr Eric Williams. His seminal role in T&T’s independence project was reflected upon...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 10/04/05

But this is real madness. It concerns everybody’s pet hate, TSTT. I personally witnessed a friend put on hold for over one hour while he tried to call their service line. Can you believe that? And to make matters worse, he had to listen to message after message about TSTT’s great services. You can’t blame a man for going “postal” when you treat him like that...

Simon Lee updated 10/04/05

When it comes to the Caribbean connection in the Big Fug, Trinis, or for that matter Bajans, Dominicans, Lucians, Grenadians are all overshadowed by the Jamaican presence. It’s a combination of sheer numbers and the aggressive Yardie style...

Debbie Jacob updated 11/04/05

A long time ago when I worked at Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle and dreamt of living on an island like Trinidad, a dear friend (who has since become a missionary in Chile) said, “Whenever you feel really bad, give someone a gift...

Fr Henry Charles updated 04/04/05

Terri Schiavo, a Florida patient who existed for the last 15 years in a “persistent vegetative state (PVS)” died last Thursday. In 1990 a “chemical imbalance,” brought on by an eating disorder caused her heart to stop beating and subsequently cut off oxygen to her brain...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 10/04/05

God, children are so open...it’s not difficult to understand why parents do so much to try to close them...

Leela Ramdeen updated 10/04/05

The world mourns the passing of a great leader and humble servant of God. My spiritual father, Pope John Paul II, has died. He showed us how to live and die with courage and dignity...

Dr David E Bratt updated 12/04/05

Except for those making big money, it is not a good time to be living in T&T. The second oil boom is here and gas still to come. Oil at over US$50 a barrel. Both the editor and the associate editor of last Thursday’s Business Guardian spoke about “money flowing through the economy” and “money pouring in.” But, where is the money going? Is there an economist who can explain this anomaly?

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 12/04/05

Women ask for rape? Women look for rape? Women invite rape? To hear tell, we do all of the above. But to hear tell by whom?

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 12/04/05

Paul G Stolz states that helplessness is “the cancer of human endeavour.” Martin Selegman had defined helplessness as the belief “that what you do does not matter.” He calls it a crisis of insignificance...

Bukka Rennie updated 30/03/05

The story of Rupert Gray: A Tale of Black and White, written by a school teacher Stephen Nathaniel Cobham at the turn of the last century (1907 to be exact), is a simple but remarkably related story. A certain Mr Primrose Serle, a well endowed and prosperous White businessman in the colony of Trinidad, takes pride in his successes and his libertine ways and considers himself a friend of the Black race of people whom he praises openly for making strides upwards in the social fabric of the colony...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 06/04/05

Imagine a rapist considering his battered, bruised, bleeding victim and explaining that because he used his genitalia on her genitalia it “must” be sex...

Ravi Ji updated 06/04/05

“After so many years of indenture ship, /How come jahajees still feeling the whip?” is the question posed by Lynn Khan at the Pichakaaree Final at Divali Nagar during Kendra Phagwa Festival 2005. The Festival of Colour was held on Easter Sunday because of the constraint of having to survive under an alien calendar...

Sat Maharaj updated 13/04/05

In the western world of politics, the name Machiavelli has come to mean intrigue and the pursuit of power through the use of every method, no matter how despicable...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 07/04/05

“In the name of Ram, Panday must go,” Nirmala said, her voice trembling, adding, “Indians are suffering—kidnap, bandits, extortion, police terrorism daily, Government and criminals same, like Jamaica, a failed state—and what is our response? Ramayana, puja, migration, if you have money.”

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 31/03/05

The human being is the only one in nature with the capacity to create his own conditions of existence. He has therefore been able to accustom himself to living in every type of natural space, from the hottest to the most frozen...

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 07/04/05

What principles do you follow to deliver what you want in life? The first consideration is to know what you want. This is not as easy as it sounds. Most people merely exist. Are you one of them? Do you simply get up each morning and follow the same routine and then feel that you are getting nowhere?

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 07/04/05

Ramnaresh Sarwan and Chris Gayle did what the WICB, Caricom governments and the people of the region failed to do: force Cable and Wireless, one of the two transnational corporations fighting over the regional market for tele-communications services, into a position where it had to relent...

Attillah Springer updated 09/04/05

I can’t say there was a time during his life when I actually cared what Pope John Paul II was up to. I never really saw any link between me and some dude chilling in the midst of all the riches the Vatican, like so many other western European imperialist powers, had stolen from native cultures around the world...

Gail Alexander updated 09/04/05

The changing skyline in Port-of-Spain spells out much more than development, progress and pretty silhouettes in the setting sun...