We must be careful that the efficient administration of justice does not become a casualty in the battle between Chief Justice Sat Sharma and Prime Minister Patrick Manning...

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 01/05/05

How else do you describe the news which on the same day read “Bush evacuated after false alarm” and “Lightning strikes Blair’s plane...

Dana Seetahal updated 01/05/05

The Minister of National Security has suggested that the crime situation is not as bad as people are making out, that in fact the security forces have identified the main areas where crime is prevalent and are dealing with it...

Denzil Mohammed updated 01/05/05

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 01/05/05

A very interesting news item appeared on page A3 of The Gleaner newspaper in Jamaica on April 27, last under the headline: Caricom heads to determine region’s future...

Ira Mathur updated 01/05/05

We have all felt it. An unnamed anxiety. It’s got to do with these tiny islands. Some people have called it the nausea of living in a fish bowl in which the cadavers of dead fish float...

Judy Raymond updated 01/05/05

Like lawyers, opposition MPs don’t ask a question unless they think they know the answer, but the whole Senate was surprised by a response on Tuesday afternoon...

Lennox Grant updated 01/05/05

The name of Guyana is commonly taken in vain to identify the abyss into which Trinidad and Tobago could heedlessly plunge. “Guyanisation” is the signpost for a dead-end road down which T&T is enjoined not to go...

Martin A. George updated 01/05/05

It is amazing that after more than 100 years of being made a ward of Trinidad, Tobago still is in the infancy of its development, still needing to nurse and feed off Trinidad, still not yet weaned and able to stand on its own two feet...

Overand Padmore updated 01/05/05

Amid renewed calls from public bodies for the Government to re-introduce the Police Reform Bills, Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has re-affirmed his opposition to them. He is objecting on the spurious grounds that the measures are designed to put more power in the hands of politicians...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 01/05/05

I have had the pleasure of doing some travelling recently and last week I shared a few observations about the UK especially from a 2020 perspective. We also visited another country and I wonder if you can guess where you will find the following...

Simon Lee updated 01/05/05

The editor has been suggesting I tear myself away from the bosom of the Levites, leave the Big Fug behind and head for the open road, en route for Scotland or Ireland...

Debbie Jacob updated 02/05/05

My daughter, Ijanaya, keeper of the key to the happiest Mother’s Day celebrations you can imagine, must be planning a day fit for mother of the year even as I write...

Fr Henry Charles updated 02/05/05

The intersection of morality and politics has occasioned endless debate for centuries. At the risk of simplification, the discussion has veered between the view that politics should be held to a higher moral standard than expediency...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 02/05/05

From the wall of one Guardian editorGOD knows I’m the last person in the media who wants to be censored because some puritan or sexist pig finds my work “objectionable...

Leela Ramdeen updated 02/05/05

These words were uttered by a Trinidadian teacher who was a member of my team—The Primary Curriculum Development Project—established by the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s to promote success among students of Caribbean origin...

Dr David E Bratt updated 03/05/05

In the ’70s, I never thought that I would be writing about fat kids in T&T. The malnutrition problem then, and fatness is a form of malnutrition, was the opposite: undernutrition...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 03/05/05

Often when freedom of expression (often masquerading as “I talkin’ frank!” masquerading as rude...or is it vice versa?) provokes a fracas, we find a little self-censorship could have avoided the fight...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 03/05/05

Citizens may believe that this warning is an exercise in futility. There are some individuals who believe that we have lost the battle and that T&T will never recover and escape from the grip of kidnapping assassins...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 04/05/05

There's a lot of fiery talk thrown up against the very idea of “policing” the media. If, I ask, policing is such a big bad wolf, why does every “free” nation in the world have a police force?

Ravi Ji updated 27/04/05

Imagine a woman who’d just been gang-raped by ten men. Imagine her inert in a pool of blood leaking from the battered and torn most private part of her; gashes, scratches, bites marks, bruises from punches and other blows riddling her body. Her spirit at death’s door, begging her body to follow and just walk on through...

Sat Maharaj updated 04/05/05

With great pomp and ceremony, the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha and the Hindu community witnessed the ordination of their spiritual leader, Pundit Uttam Maharaj. His official religious title is Dharmacharya...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 28/04/05

“Christian Mouttet, accept your duty. Your country needs you. Get Larry Howai and a small group together to implement projects to change the 2020 mindset guiding both PNM and UNC politicians. Each hired the Jamaat to mobilise the ghetto against the other party, ignoring ancient wisdom: when you plan to ride a tiger know how to get off before you get on...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 21/04/05

We have all been awaiting the end of the last Haitian conflict, which began with the departure of President Aristide, compelled to relinquish power by US forces that were accompanied almost simultaneously by other governments of the region, until a United Nations force was created and mandated to apply a peacekeeping plan in the neighbouring Caribbean nation...

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 28/04/05

You are holding yourself hostage by not asking for what you want? Do you only ask for things which are not a risk or threat? Your success can explode if you dare to ask, although you may be rejected or looked upon as outrageous. Are you afraid to ask for fear that you may be looked upon as needy, foolish or stupid?

Ravi-ji updated 21/04/05

The Hindu Prachar Kendra celebrated Ramnavmi—the birth of Lord Rama—a midday festival, on April 17. The event was held on the premises of the Kendra at Raghunanan Road, Enterprise, to celebrate Bhagwaan Shri Rama, the Seventh Divine Descent or Avataar of Lord Vishnu...

Tony Fraser updated 28/04/05

All the major broadcast jurisdictions in the free and democratic world are governed by regulations to guide the operations of radio and television...

Attillah Springer updated 30/04/05

It is time we as citizens take back our country. An opening statement on an e-mail message that alleged to give the views of expat Trinidadians. Not Trinidadians and Tobagonians, of course, since Tobago hardly ever enters into political discourse about “our” country...

Gail Alexander updated 30/04/05

Even if Works Minister Franklin Khan felt confident enough last week to hint that polls are “closer than you think,” Wednesday’s bribery allegations in Parliament have raised questions on whether that projection is accurate...