| Anand
Ramlogan updated
23/11/07
Before we even begin to analyse the Mustill Report,
we should all be concerned about the serious breach
in security that led to the premature leaking of the
report to the media before it was officially delivered
to the President...
Dana
Seetahal updated
23/12/07
After
some ten weeks, the Mustill Report has been presented
to His Excellency, the President, and in its wake
we are told that Chief Justice Sharma is returning
to hold the office from which he legally retires in
January, 2008...
Dennis
Pantin updated
23/12/07
Dr Tony Martin provides fascinating details on the
lobbying by T&T’s first Prime Minister, Dr
Eric Williams, to obtain employment in a policy-making
role in the Caribbean in his introduction to the re-issue
of the proceedings of a 1943 Howard University conference
titled The Future of the Caribbean Economy...
Denzil
Mohammed updated 23/12/07
What is the “true” meaning of Christmas,
and where does Christ fit in? Is it really about
“Christ,” or has it become more about
“mas?” Does suffix trump prefix...
Dr
Hamid Ghany updated
23/12/07
As
the Ninth Parliament of the republic opened last Monday,
there was an absence of decorum in parts of the proceedings...
Ira
Mathur updated 23/12/07
We arrived in Bhopal from Bombay to the chilliest
winter in 40 years, to be met by a second cousin I
hadn’t seen in 20 years...
Lennox
Grant updated 23/12/07
It
hung in the air like like the pop song sentiment that
it was. “It’s a love thing,” a PNM
campaign line, reached out and touched whatever corner
of the national heart the crooner Patrick Manning
addressed...
Martin
George updated 23/12/07
In what can only be described as an ironic twist of
fate, James Watson, the once-revered father of genetics
who, along with his partners Francis Crick and Maurice
Wilkins, had worked out the structure of DNA...
Peter
Quentrall-Thomas updated 23/12/07
Well
it’s that time of year when one traditionally
asks Santa to bring lots of gifts. As I already have
“my two front teeth,” I thought I would
ask for some other gifts...
Simon
Lee updated 23/12/07
Sak
pase monche? Everything cool for de Yule? Let’s
hope so, although this Jewish Creole is harbouring
a few reservations about the celebrations this time...
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...
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