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Thursday 24th July, 2008

 
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Guardian Columnists
Sunday

Dana Seetahal updated 20/09/08

I read with interest a statement attributed to the Prime Minister at his party’s annual convention last weekend, which has not been refuted...

Dennis Pantin updated 08/06/08

“Development” and “developed country” are 20th century concepts. In this 21st century, the global quest is for sustainable development. There are several reasons for this shift. First, is the recognition that man’s impact on environment has lead to a negative feed-back loop as nature, like Montezuma, seeks revenges...

Denzil Mohammed updated 20/07/08

When I was a boy, my mother enrolled me in piano lessons, like my brother, sister and herself before me, and like so many thousands of other unfortunate children...

Dr Hamid Ghany updated 08/06/08

Last Tuesday, history was made in the United States when Senator Barack Obama clinched the nomination of the Democratic Party to become its candidate for the presidency in the election to be held on November......

Ira Mathur updated 20/07/08

My husband will join the growing ranks of Trinidadian business people who shuttle between their families abroad and their businesses here....

Lennox Grant updated 20/07/08

Tongue-in-cheek, a 1960s radical, venerable possessor of stripes from 1970 detention on Nelson Island, last week admonished me to write about PNM ministers with “more respect...

Martin George updated 08/06/08

In Miami over the Indian Arrival Day weekend, I was mulling over the entire concept of our local Indian Arrival Day celebrations, and as always, I look for fresh new perspectives to bring to my readers, wondering how we can look at the idea of arrival from a different viewpoint. And then it hit me...

Peter Quentrall-Thomas updated 20/07/08

You have to laugh at our labour leaders. They are so out of touch with today’s world it is not true...

Simon Lee updated 15/06/08

So this is my first sally in the new, youth-styled, sized-down, sexed-up Sunday Guardian. Another birthing, another chapter and, as the director of an Indian pharmaceutical firm remarked to me last week in Guyana, there are no coincidences...

Monday

Debbie Jacob updated 21/07/08

Getting boys to read can be like pulling teeth: mighty difficult. That’s why I keep a running list of books that will appeal to boys who are reluctant readers...

Fr Henry Charles updated 21/07/08

Should we be tolerant of people who spread intolerance? Is tolerance just another name for lack of principle? Does it end by legitimising what is immoral...

Prakash Persad updated 14/07/08

Democracy is defined as the free and equal representation of people. This translates into the free and equal right of every person to participate in their own governance...

 

Tuesday

Dr David E Bratt updated 22/07/08

One Friday morning, during the August holidays, I was driving through a coconut estate near Puerto Cabello in Venezuela with another medical student who was a couple of years in front of me...

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 22/07/08

The murder of a youth made bold headlines in yesterday’s edition of the Antigua Sun...

 

Wednesday

Clevon Raphael updated 23/07/08

House Speaker Barry Sinanan has delivered a stunning upper jab in defence of our democratic system of governance with his courageous decision to put the Government before Parliament’s Privileges Committee...

Tony Fraser updated 23/07/08

An agreement has been made for all of the hostages to leave the Red House, TTT (Trinidad and Tobago Television) and Radio Trinidad. In return an amnesty has been granted to Yasin Abu Bakr and members of the Jamaat Al Muslimeen for their violent incursion on the Parliament...

 

Thursday

Sat Maharaj updated 24/07/08

In the 1970s, nearly every Hindu household in T&T had at least a single copy of an Amar Chitra Katha comic printed in Mumbai, India...

Leela Ramdeen updated 03/07/08

 

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 24/07/08

Rum is one of the alcoholic beverages with a more tropical personality and is, above all, pure- ly Caribbean in origin...

Bhoendradatt-Tewarie updated 24/07/08

If I am half correct in my arguments in last week’s article, then what do we need to do to address the issue of crime in crime-ridden communities?

 

Friday

Peter Ray Blood's Pulse Column updated 18/07/08

Expect some new and exciting developments for Carnival 2009 as mas bandleaders and fete promoters endeavour to reinvent some of the premier aspects of the festival...

Selwyn R Cudjoe upadted 18/07/08

T&T’s press is so intent on demonising Patrick Manning that sometimes it seems incapable of carrying a balanced story about any event that concerns him...

Gillian Lucky updated 18/07/08

A fundamental requirement for any meaningful discussion on a matter as crucial as constitutional reform is unfettered transparency in the process of trans- formation...

 

Saturday

Attillah Springer updated 19/07/08

Life is a practice. A wise hermit-type fellar called Fingers told me that once many years ago in the bush...

Gail Alexander updated 19/07/08

It started somewhat positively for Government...

Lisa Allen-Agostini updated 19/07/08

There was a curious and vexing article in the Guardian on July 16...

 

 

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