The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is one of the most important pieces of legislation to have been passed in the last decade. It can cause a revolution in our democracy, because the people can actually monitor government and public authorities themselves...

Dana Seetahal updated 15/01/06

The Bail Amendment Act came into force on December 30, 2005, after months of debate and some acrimony as to its desirability and possible value...

Denzil Mohammed updated 15/01/06

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 15/01/06

As the debate about integrity in public life continues to gain momentum, it is apparent that while members of both sides of the political divide are being brought before the courts on various charges related to integrity in public life...

Ira Mathur updated 15/01/06

Dead chickens scattered across the front page of Wednesday’s Guardian, with the question mark of avian influenza, sent a shudder of ominous dread to us all...

Lennox Grant updated 15/01/06

The Port-of-Spain lighthouse, restored or redecorated, may have triggered a popular revolt of the spirit. The Mayor, an advertising agency and a paint firm together produced a shock effect in the national colours...

Martin George updated 15/01/06

Once again, the Mt Hope Maternity Hospital is in the news—and not in a positive light. Hospital administrator Dr Esau Joseph confirmed that the autoclave sterilising equipment broke down and they were trying to repair it...

Overand Padmore updated 15/01/06

Dansam DHansook’s allegation that he had bribed two government ministers has now led to their indictment...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 15/01/06

Now, before we get to the chronic health situation, I need to get a few other matters out of the way first...

Simon Lee updated 12/01/06

It’s not often that I’m in the right place at the right time but here I am on the threshold of 2006 so I’ll pour some libations and call on Papa Legba not only to open wide the gate to the New Year...

Debbie Jacob updated 16/01/06

So far, I have stayed out of the petty, stupid discussions about making the name of the national awards an ethnic or racial issue, but I put my foot down when people throw out inane ideas like changing the name of our football team from The Soca Warriors to the Soca Chutney Warriors...

Fr Henry Charles updated 09/01/06

A couple of years ago, I came across, quite by accident, Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate, an elegant and moving autobiographical memoir of an immigrant Armenian family in New Jersey in the 50s and 60s...

Prakash Persad updated 16/01/06

Discipline, production and tolerance are supposed to be our nation’s watchwords. One is inexorably drawn to the conclusion that the engine has seized up. Since we have great difficulty in finding these attributes...

Dr David E Bratt updated 17/01/06

We all do, eat salt I mean, not suck it, unless you mean the licking we get from politicians and other smart men involved in football and other sundry money-making activities disguised as nation building...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 17/01/06

We need quality leadership to improve the crime detection rate, the discovery of kidnapping dens, the functions of parliamentarians in their constituencies, the performance of police officers, the impact of churches in the community and the ability of banks to respond to the cries of the oppressed...

Clevon Raphael updated 18/01/06

Ravi Ji updated 18/01/06

When I meet a fellow Trini in some remote place in another country, there is an immediate connection. To connect through shared places and events, mourn over long-time days, moan over West Indies cricket, complain about politicians and radios not giving airtime to local culture and, in recent times, bemoan the traffic surrounding Port-of-Spain are all bonding rituals...

Tony Fraser updated 18/01/06

San Juan—Five of the smallest communities in the Caribbean, not traditionally associated with the core West Indian civilisation with a British colonial past, have determined to pool their limited physical resources to better sell themselves to the world as an idyllic tourism destination...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 19/01/06

Leela Ramdeen updated 19/01/06

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become...

Philip G Rochford updated 29/09/05

There are four principal ways in which you interact with the audience and by which the audience evaluates you as a speaker...

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...

Sat Maharaj updated 19/01/06

The Maha Sabha celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2002 and held poojas across the country in praise of Bhagwan (God) for giving us the opportunity to strengthen our dharma (religion) and establish Hindu schools and colleges to make formal education available to our followers’ children...

Attillah Springer updated 21/01/06

Since I am indeed applying to cover a Fifa event rather than a T&TFF or Concacaf one, would Fifa then intervene on a point of ‘fair play.’ By intervene I mean will Fifa ensure that qualified journalists from reputable newspapers within your 32 participating member associations are allowed access to follow their respective teams at Germany 2006...

Dr Harold Mahabir updated 07/01/06

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. And 2006 has begun with a continuance of this insidious wastage of the young minds of this country. The picture of students protesting at two schools in the southland send a deplorable message of reprehensible waste and neglect...

Gail Alexander updated 31/12/05

When deputy UNC leader Jack Warner takes the Soca Warriors to Germany next June, the fact boxes on T&T for international consumption hopefully will not include this country’s latest, biggest, fastest growing phenomenon—an exploding crime rate which broke all records in 2005...