Could someone explain why Indian men are so scarce in advertisements? In a country where we’re hardly a minority, the conspicuous absence is glaring and shocking...

Dana Seetahal updated 08/04/07

when John Jeremie was slated to become Attorney General, commenting somewhat ungraciously that I knew little of him, and would he be any better than then AG Glenda Morean..

Dennis Pantin updated 08/04/07

Construction and public sector-related employment have been major contributors to the current full employment level in T&T, creating some 70,000 new jobs between 2002 and 2006...

Denzil Mohammed updated 01/04/07

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 08/04/07

NAEAP Constitution Conference, Prime Minister Patrick Manning backtracked on his constitutional proposals for an executive presidency...

Ira Mathur updated 08/04/07

Last week, a seamstress from Belmont who was twisting me around, pins in her mouth, adjusting fabric, stopped abruptly, and, with pins still in her mouth, dropped two tears on me...

Lennox Grant updated 08/04/07

At first sight, the Holy Thursday headline, “PM fighting cross-examination,” reads more like history than news...

Martin George updated 08/04/07

Delivery of the written judgments by the Court of Appeal in Magisterial Appeal No 75 of 2006 of Basdeo Panday vs Wellington Virgil has been much anticipated, given the charged atmosphere of the day...

Overand Padmore updated 08/04/07

The timing of the debate of the private member’s motion on the Government’s handling of the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago, moved by Independent Senator Professor Ramesh Deosaran was clearly welcomed by the Opposition UNC...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 08/04/07

With all the talk about the Environmental Management Authority approving the smelter, despite the fact that we don’t need it, as we have lots of other alternative uses for our energy...

Basdeo Panday updated 08/04/06

Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s revelations in his speech to the International Conference of the National Association for the Empowerment of African People on the March 31, must have come as a shock to some...

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 09/04/07

Just before Easter I learned of the resurrection of Pam’s Kitchen. I am envious of all of those people who get to taste my Aunt Pam’s hand...

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 09/04/07

Many husbands and sons breathed a smiling sigh of back relief when it was announced by airlines that the allowable weight per piece of check-in luggage was reduced from 72 to 50 pounds...

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 11/04/07

The 2000 general election was one of the two aberrations to the pattern of one-term governments which has been the major feature of the outcome of general elections between 1981 and the last election in 2002—remembering that for purposes of this review the Chambers administration of 1981-1986 is classified as a one-term government on the basis that it was an administration different from those of Williams between 1956-1981...

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 12/04/07

Science chases money and money chases its tail...

Leela Ramdeen updated 12/04/07

We should be proud that today our arts and culture are represented in many parts of the world...

Sat Maharaj updated 12/04/07

Untold History of T&T—Part V...

Attillah Springer updated 07/04/07

I took a lot of deep breaths this week. Thought a lot of strange thoughts and felt a lot of previously unfelt feelings...

Gail Alexander updated 07/04/07

After the “heat” of Panday’s issue shelved the Lower House, slightly increased temperatures in the Upper House from lack of air-conditioning knocked out Tuesday’s sitting...

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...