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Monday 18th August ,2008

 
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Guardian Columnists
Sunday

Anand Ramlogan updated 17/08/08

The attack against Express reporter Anna Ramdass by Information Minister Neil Parsanlal was cleverly buttressed by a release from the PNM that saw no sin in the use of taxpayers’ money to advertise the fact that the new Prime Minister of Grenada was going to pay an official state visit to T&T...

Dana Seetahal updated 17/08/08

Decision of the constitutional court, that the death sentence of at least 52 convicted murderers should be commuted to life imprisonment, will provide more fodder to the cynics and critics...

Derren Joseph updated 17/08/08

About two-and-a-half weeks ago, an entity known as the Laventille Pride Foundation had its media launch at Success Laventille Composite School... ...

Dennis Pantin updated 17/08/08

The same position is held by the Governments of Guyana and Grenada, together with trade union and civil society groupings in the Caribbean: ditto for Opposition parties and even, possibly, some within the European Union itself, including French President Sarkozy...

Denzil Mohammed updated 03/08/08

I’ve had the privilege in my short life of knowing a few truly good people: humans bordering on the divine; people who, I believed, were inherently good; people who reinforced my belief in the goodness of mankind... ...

Lennox Grant updated 17/08/08

In Never Dirty, Morvant, one night last week, anxieties over venturing into bloodstained, Laventillean badlands were stirred by the old friend I was giving a ride home...

Martin George updated 17/08/08

With a murder toll of around 330 to date in mid-August of 2008, it is quite likely that we will cross 450 murders by the end of the year...

Simon Lee updated 17/08/08

It’s been such a rollercoaster of a couple of weeks, it only dawned on me last night as I sat on the step of the Brooklyn Bar that it was 21 years ago I stepped off a plane and into my first Trini and Caribbean night. I allowed myself a few moments of nostalgia, remembering the good old/bad old days...

Monday

Debbie Jacob updated 18/08/08

When it comes to Carla Bruni—supermodel turned singer turned first lady of France—expect the unexpected...

Fr Henry Charles updated 18/08/08

A fairly widespread conviction among concerned citizens, including the President, is that if T&T is not exactly a failed state, we are in real danger of becoming one. But what makes a state qualify as failed or failing? What are the indicators of failure...

Prakash Persad updated 11/08/08

The desecration of the murtis in Cunupia is the second such incident in the past year or so. It points to a malignant, intolerant, formative social cancer that must be excised from the body national...

 

Tuesday

Dr David E Bratt updated 12/08/08

A problem of paediatricians dealing with children is that everyone and their nennen think they are experts on children.

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 12/08/08

Thousands of youth, their relatives and leaders from the Caricom region will be descending upon the edenic and scenic island of Antigua, marching against crime and violence, repairing and painting homes, proclaiming the everlasting gospel, and visiting institutions such as the hospital and rehabilitation centres. This is the Angels On Fire Pathfinder Camporee.

 

Wednesday

Clevon Raphael updated 13/08/08

Last week I promised to deal today with the warning by Khafra Kambon to call for a boycott by Afro-Trinis of businesses which refuse to financially assist the endeavours of the Emancipation Support Committee.

Tony Fraser updated 13/08/08

In concluding this four-part series on my first-hand involvement as reporter in the attempted coup of July 1990, an obvious question is to be asked: how did the major political leaders do, by way of demonstrating patriotism, courage, and whatever contribution to bring an end to the assault on the democracy of T&T by Yasin Abu Bakr and his Jamaat al Muslimeen?

 

 

Thursday

Sat Maharaj updated 14/08/08

In 2002, the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Inc of T&T publicly withdrew its endorsement of the Hindu Credit Union.

Leela Ramdeen updated 03/07/08

 

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 31/07/08

 

Bhoendradatt-Tewarie updated 14/08/08

August is the month in which, during a period of 30 days, we move from the observance of emancipation to the celebration of independence.

 

Friday

Peter Ray Blood's Pulse Column updated 15/08/08

THE weekend’s major ports of call are the launchings of three premier mas bands tomorrow and Sunday.

Selwyn R Cudjoe upadted 15/08/08

London Independent described the last rites of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a solemn manner: “The air was thick with the scent of incense and freshly cut flowers, as more than a dozen white-robbed Orthodox priests sang hymns and recited prayers in a three-hour service at the funeral of Alexandra Solzhenitsyn in Moscow.”

Gillian Lucky updated 15/08/08

The point is often made that the breakdown in law and order has more to do with the lack of implementation of existing laws rather than the need to pass draconian legislation.

Ian Smart updated 15/08/08

 

Saturday

Attillah Springer updated 16/08/08

In a week when the killings were more than you could keep track of, a news story stood out and caused me a greater level of alarm even than shoot-outs in broad daylight in downtown Port-of-Spain.

Gail Alexander updated 16/08/08

 

Lisa Allen-Agostini updated 09/08/08

 

 

 

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