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Tuesday 18th December, 2007

 
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Guardian Columnists
Sunday
Anand Ramlogan updated 16/11/07

By now, the long-awaited Lord Mustill Report should have been delivered to the President. The ambitious public declaration by the tribunal that it intended to deliver it before the general election fell flat...

Dana Seetahal updated 16/12/07

Recently I was asked to give a presentation to a criminology class at the University of the Southern Caribbean on the Criminal Justice System—was it was failing...

Dennis Pantin updated 16/12/07

(64) years ago, Dr Eric Williams, T&T’s first prime minister, was a principal player in a Howard University conference on The Economic Future of the Caribbean, which makes interesting reading today...

Denzil Mohammed updated 16/12/07

Such talent at such a young age.” Indeed, I did concur. I watched the paintings close up, from afar, then up close again, moving methodically from one to the next. And I was suffused with approbation for the work this man...

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 16/12/07

As the Ninth Parliament of the republic opens tomorrow, there will be much speculation about the challenges that lie ahead. One of those will be the reform of the Constitution...

Ira Mathur updated 16/12/07

I am sitting high up—14 floors up—in a hotel room on Marine Drive in Bombay. Over the years since the age of 14, after we had migrated to Trinidad and Tobago, I have passed through Bombay on my way to other cities...

Lennox Grant updated 16/12/07

The crisis in customer service starts at the top of an administration which, for six weeks after assuming office, demonstrated its readiness only to stall the executive and legislative machinery of government to suit its own convenience...

Martin George updated 09/12/07

My friend and colleague Richard Wheeler called me early the following morning and said: “Martin, you need to take the analysis to its conclusion, I know where you’re headed, and you need to go there with the article...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 16/12/07

So finally my election analysis comes to an end. This week we are going to look at the seats that the COP “nearly won...

Simon Lee updated 16/12/07

I was caught in an Ogun showdown last night, somewhere on the road between Soufriere and Marigot. If these names sound unfamiliar in a Trini context, don’t frighten, they shouldn’t; after all there are Marigots in Dominica and Martinique...

Valentino Singh updated 16/12/07

I would not only miss the one opportunity that would present itself for me to see Santa Claus, but what about the one gift from Old St Nick for which I had worked so hard during the year...

 

Monday

Debbie Jacob updated 17/12/07

We all take Christmas traditions for granted. Because we’re so caught up in all the holiday fuss, we really don’t stop to think about why we celebrate Christmas the way we do or why we even put up Christmas trees...

Fr Henry Charles updated 10/12/07

It’s the sort of situation for which a Trinidadian feels an immediate sympathy, especially those among us with a passion for wildmeat...

Prakash Persad updated 17/12/07

A community is not just a group of people living in the same neighbourhood. They must share some common values and possess some sort of kinship...

 

Tuesday

Dr David E Bratt updated 18/12/07

Devra Davis has written a book called The Secret History of the War on Cancer that should be required bedtime reading for any politician interested in anything more than the local cocktail party circuit, or anyone interested in finding out about the causes of cancer...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 18/12/07

Next year we will be celebrating ten years of Mega Mission....

 

 

Wednesday

Clevon Raphael updated 12/12/07

Two issues recently caught my attention: the Donna Cox outburst and the call for citizens to be given the right to bear arms for their and their relatives’ protection...

Tony Fraser updated 12/12/07

This column is about recognition, appreciation and, alas, reality, notwithstanding...

 

Thursday

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 13/12/07

The vulnerability of tourism to risk, crisis and disaster has long been evident...

Leela Ramdeen updated 13/12/07

MANY “hands” have helped to build T&T...

Sat Maharaj updated 13/12/07

More than 20 years ago, the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha recognised the need for Hinduism to spread its message via the mass media...

 

Friday

Peter Ray Blood's Pulse Column updated 14/12/07

When it comes to throwing a damn good party few can do it better than Ron Milford...

Wesley George upadted 14/12/07

 

Lisa Allen-Agostini updated 14/12/07

 

Gillian Lucky updated 14/12/07

When the public reads about criminal cases falling by the wayside or accused people being acquitted because crucial witnesses for the prosecution are either gunned down or refuse to testify, it is inevitable that fingers will be pointed at all arms of the State involved in the administration of justice...

 

Saturday

Attillah Springer updated 15/12/07

If I were a Catholic maybe I might be more predisposed to understanding. Maybe I would shrug off the shock of your incomprehensible statement...

Gail Alexander updated 08/12/07

 

 

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