Former government ministers Franklyn Khan and Eric Williams have had their trials constantly adjourned. Both matters have been fixed for trial for May and June 2007 respectively...

Dana Seetahal updated 20/04/07

The recent decision by a High Court judge to abort a murder trial because of the possibility of prejudice where the defence lawyer was himself facing a criminal charge raises questions as to the propriety of any professional continuing to function at his job while charged with a crime...

Dennis Pantin updated 20/05/07

Hold Strain, Mehta bringing train” is one of the more memorable slogans in the history of election campaigning in Trinidad and Tobago...

Denzil Mohammed updated 20/05/07

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 20/05/07

The chief executive officer of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for Trinidad and Tobago for the Cricket World Cup, Anand Daniel...

Ira Mathur updated 20/05/07

The one thing that struck me about seven of the boy/men who were held for Vindra Naipaul-Coolman’s killing is how easily, if you saw them on the street, you could mistake them for the faces of the future...

Lennox Grant updated 20/05/07

On May 8, when Foreign Affairs Minister Arnold Piggott produced Prime Minister Patrick Manning for a Hilton photo opportunity...

Martin George updated 20/05/07

Port-of-Spain is fast taking on the look of a developing China Town with all the Chinese immigrant workers all over the place hammering, chiselling, drilling, sawing and putting up multi-storey structures around the town...

Overand Padmore updated 13/05/07

The Prime Minister and AG made ministerial statements and Minister Valley offered a personal explanation in Parliament last week, all reflecting the PNM Government’s enduring commitment to the rule of law and to good governance...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 20/05/07

As I had some free time I took a bus tour to nearby villages that are right on the slopes of some of the volcanoes. The people are obviously poor but they didn’t come begging or pulling at our clothes trying to sell us stuff...

Basdeo Panday updated 15/04/06

I promised readers that unless sidetracked by something inane the PNM was bound to do during the week (to which I may be tempted to respond), I would state some of my views on constitution reform in this column...

Simon Lee updated 06/05/06

After a frantic month, during which the madam has beaten all manner of books from William Faulkner to Harriet Beecher Stowe and mutated into a one-woman...

Debbie Jacob updated 21/05/07

If you’re not talking about the Showtime mini series The Tudors, then you’re really not with the times. When it comes to bacchanal, Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy have nothing on this historical drama...

Fr Henry Charles updated 14/05/07

The police now refer to themselves as the Police Service. They were once known as the Police Force. I have often wondered whether “Service” was meant to displace “Force.” If it was, the change may have rested in part on a misunderstanding, because ...

Prakash Persad updated 21/05/07

Inconsolable despair, gut-wrenching grief, an overwhelming sense of loss and hurt—the painful emotions being experienced by our ancestors, the Jahaji Sangh...

Dr David E Bratt updated 15/05/07

Once more this does not seem to be a good time to be a child in Trinidad...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 15/05/07

In some sections of the male population there is a strong message which indicates that the abnormal is applauded and the normal is condemned. Even university professors blow the trumpets of the ungodly, seeking to bring pseudo-intellectual pressure on those who refuse to accept their post-modern agenda...

Clevon Raphael updated 16/05/07

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 17/05/07

In 1957, to speak of a half century was to refer to a notion of a long period of time, a distant future. In that respect, the pioneers of European integration during the mid 20th century, who conceived the idea of building the European Union, having operated under the old notion of the future, did not visualise the materialisation of their efforts within a relatively short period of time, that is, in less than half a century...

Leela Ramdeen updated 17/05/07

Yesterday a holy woman set foot on our shores. Dadi Janki, the co-administrative head of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKs)/the Raja Yoga Centres, will be in T&T until Sunday...

Sat Maharaj updated 17/05/07

Attillah Springer updated 19/05/07

Sun is Shining, Bob MarleyHeat in de place and not enough air-conditioning units to convince us that it’s cool to preserve our natural environment...

Gail Alexander updated 19/05/07