Enough has been said about the great loss to the region and the void that has been created by the death of Lloyd Best...

Dana Seetahal updated 01/04/07

I hope the media knows by now the difference between a robbery and simple theft. Banner headline in one newspaper two days ago stated: Whitehall robbed again...

Dennis Pantin updated 01/04/07

Trinidad and Tobago last achieved full employment at the end of the last oil boom in 1981...

Denzil Mohammed updated 01/04/07

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 01/04/07

Last week, I pointed to a state of uncertainty in this column. This week, it now appears that there is a state of confusion...

Ira Mathur updated 01/04/07

I never felt as West Indian as I did when the voices of the Lydian singers soared and dipped, a chorus of angels so pure, so clear, that I thought that someone had put on a high tech doctored CD, until you saw their lips move...

Lennox Grant updated 01/04/07

In July, 1990, the Parliament chamber there was ground zero of a coup d’etat, from which oral history has all but dropped the word “attempted...

Martin George updated 01/04/07

In light of a recent initiative reported here in Trinidad and Tobago, concerning something called the Kerik Commission...

Overand Padmore updated 01/04/07

The UNC has pole-vaulted on its principles, demonstrating its inconstancy, its indifference to morality in public affairs, and consequently its unfitness to be entrusted with political responsibility for managing the affairs of the people of T&T...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 01/04/07

Today is April Fools’ day, but I assure you there is no hoax in my article. This is an election year, and it is important that we set the agenda and not leave it to the politicians...

David Rajkumar updated 01/04/06

The last two articles in this series (Sunday Guardian March 25 and March 18) have examined the part played by the Attorney General in the trial of the Chief Justice, which collapsed...

Simon Lee updated 25/03/06

While I gulp at my fifth coffee of the morning and ignore the greyness that passes for Thursday in icy Nubia Way, I’m suspended in a Trini time warp stretching back to 1938...

Debbie Jacob updated 02/04/07

After sitting the SEA exam last weak, I thought everyone could use a story about Mickey Mouse. The famous Disney character, you see...

Fr Henry Charles updated 02/04/07

In a recent report, Anthony Roberts, the Minister of Social Development, noted the astonishing statistic that the divorce rate in T&T stood at 67 per cent...

Prakash Persad updated 26/03/07

No question about it. Cricket now is big business: billion dollar television deals and lucrative contracts for the game’s megastars. All due to the kind courtesy of the millions of hyper-loyal fans...

Dr David E Bratt updated 03/04/07

Pollution. It used to be a big-city thing. Not anymore. Check out the dust in the air outside your air-conditioned car...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 03/04/07

In Part I of “The Tragedy of Abortion” (March 20), it was stated that abortion “produces tears, heartache, emotional and psychological scars, reduction of self-esteem, increase of guilt and depression.”

Clevon Raphael updated 21/03/07

“To forget the past is to run the risk of repeating the errors first committed.”

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 29/03/07

For almost half a century, the subject of Latin American and Caribbean integration has been under discussion, and much has been said and done in favour of attaining this goal...

Leela Ramdeen updated 29/03/07

Throughout 2007, hundreds of events have been planned in Britain to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the parliamentary act for the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807...

Sat Maharaj updated 29/03/07

Untold history of T&T—Part III...

Attillah Springer updated 31/03/07

It’s been a long-held view in the wider Caribbean that T&T is the land of steelband and deception, of smartmen and decapitations...

Gail Alexander updated 31/03/07

Prime Minister Patrick Manning never cast a direct look at UNC leader Basdeo Panday during either of this week’s Lower House sittings...

Lisa Allen-Agostini updated 31/03/07

We Trini and ’Bagonian like to talk. We like words and debate and picong and old talk, any hour of any day...

Deborah D’Andrade-Lashley updated 27/01/07

I think a proper education and some kind of healthy spiritual guidance/practice that teaches/allows individuals to respect and live harmoniously with each other are key factors to producing individuals who can become competent and law-abiding citizens in any society...