We must assume that the police and the DPP had sufficient evidence to arrest and charge Panday, Oma, Carlos and Ish. No one is above the law and justice must be allowed to take its course...

Caroline Ravello updated 05/06/05

A joint commission of Roman Catholic and Anglican scholars this month raised the prospect that “issues concerning doctrine and devotion to Mary need no longer be seen as communion-dividing...

Dana Seetahal updated 05/06/05

It is significant that 90 per cent of the callers on the nightly TV6 poll, last Thursday, indicated that they believed the arrest and charging of Mr Panday, last Tuesday, was politically-motivated...

Denzil Mohammed updated 05/05/05

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 05/06/05

The events of last week involving the arrest of former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday on corruption charges and his refusal to accept the offer of bail has created a new political frontier for this country...

Ira Mathur updated 05/06/05

What is it about people that’s so compelling? I stare fascinated at people’s faces in airports, street, listening, slightly ashamed, to one-sided public cellphone conversations as if this would unlock the infinite mystery of human beings...

Judy Raymond updated 05/06/05

In the past few weeks Dr Roodal Moonilal has begun to look older, in a very literal and obvious way. It’s not that he looks tired or disillusioned or moves stiffly. Dr Moonilal is probably the youngest of the UNC MPs...

Lennox Grant updated 05/06/05

The law taking its course had the unintended consequences of putting Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday in jail and leaving Attorney General John Jeremie, putative author of this coup, looking defensive and sounding uncertain before the cameras two days later...

Martin A. George updated 05/06/05

Strolling through the cobblestone streets of old San Juan last week, one could not help but be intrigued and enchanted by the charm and beauty of this city. Quite a contrast from the concrete jungle of the new San Juan with its towering high rises...

Overand Padmore updated 05/06/05

Opposition leader Basdeo Panday and his wife Oma have been arraigned on corruption charges, offences which allegedly took place during the time Mr Panday served as Prime Minister of T&T...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 05/06/05

Well, I’m in Lima proper now. After a typical South American breakfast of all you can eat, the real fun began...

Simon Lee updated 05/06/05

I’m afraid the Big Fug has little in the way of competition for the latest Trini bacchanal—although maybe I’m jumping guns again here...

Debbie Jacob updated 30/05/05

I feel like Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. First I was a journalist turned English teacher and then I was an anthropologist turned history teacher. I have flipped my life and returned to my roots. As you might imagine...

Fr Henry Charles updated 30/05/05

Friends, we are gathered here this afternoon, for an occasion which is a mixture of public recognition, thanksgiving and sadness. These sentiments are all obvious and everyone feels them...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 30/05/05

Dr Elizabeth Sieusarran seems to think they can: “The Indian community has to decide how to handle the offspring of this significant group locally referred to as douglas. Do we accept them or ostracise them...

Leela Ramdeen updated 30/05/05

As we celebrate 160 years since the arrival of East Indians in Trinidad, let us not forget those parts of the world from which East Indians came...

Dr David E Bratt updated 31/05/05

Trini ’fraid three things: blood, sweat and cancer. Blood you could run from. No one sweats here if they can help it. Heart attack, you gone quick. “Blood pressure” and “sugar” are hidden from sight—so no one can talk...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 17/05/05

“What does it mean?” a friend asked of the words I wrote above. Listen. Technology has given us much—things that penetrate our living and take up space, supposedly to give us time to do what’s important...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 31/05/05

We need youth leaders who are prepared to sacrifice their time, talents and economic resources to save children, teenagers and young adults...

Jaye-Q Baptiste updated 18/05/05

Awoke, as I often do, in great pain. I tried to groan and bear it but, as I often do, I succumbed to the painkillers...

Ravi Ji updated 18/04/05

As both the hurricane season and Indian Arrival season approach, the metaphor of Kaalaa Paani gains significance...

Sat Maharaj updated 01/06/05

May 30 will mark 160 years since the first shipload of East Indians set foot on Trinidad’s soil. They were indentured labourers contracted to the sugar estates. They could have returned to India at the end of their contract, and some did. But the majority decided to settle here in Trinidad, which is now the janma bhoomi (sacred land of birth) of their descendants...

Dr Morgan O Job updated 02/06/05

Prof Jagmohan lamented, “Just when Indians have become a majority in Trinidad, Caribbean unity is unfolding. We will be a minority again. We have to fight battles all over again. My son’s Hindu facial features must reflect me. We respect marriage and family values. My daughter cannot marry a n-----; and we have to decide about douglas. Do we ostracise them?”

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 02/06/05

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 02/06/05

You take decisions every day and their quality determines your future and your success. You have been programmed from a baby to submit to authority. The implication of this is that you have developed an attitude that tends to favour your responding “yes” rather than “no.” You want to please rather than offend...

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 02/06/05

Just over 200 years ago, the peasants, hungry for bread, and the middle classes, tired of paying the taxes for the clergy and nobility to live in luxury, took over the streets of Paris, beheaded Louis XVI and set in train the French Revolution...

Attillah Springer updated 04/06/05

So where were you when they went for Basdeo Panday? Did you almost choke on your sandwich as you heard it on the news?

Gail Alexander updated 04/06/05

When Prime Minister Patrick Manning told a St Helena audience on Indian Arrival Day that a “day of reckoning is very close,” he was talking about the issue of promised Caroni land for former workers...