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 24/08/08

I heard that a member of the US women 4 x 100 metres relay team claimed it must be voodoo that caused both US relay teams to drop their baton at the end the same leg of the qualifying round of their event...

Derren Joseph updated 24/08/08

Dennis Pantin updated 24/08/08

The more one reads about the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and African, Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) countries, the greater the bewilderment...

Denzil Mohammed updated 03/08/08

Lennox Grant updated 24/08/08

Largely unruffled responses to the 2008 draft Broadcast Code suggest we have come a long way from 1997, when Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj captained the UNC’s anti-media aggression...

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...

Debbie Jacob updated 25/08/08

This is the story that I always thought I would save for a book about my experiences as a journalist in Trinidad. For 21 years it has been in the back of my mind, always ranking as one of those indelible moments of my career. I have only ever told this story to one person...

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 25/08/08

Life is filled with distractions and criticisms. Whilst distractions can be dealt with by generally avoiding them, criticisms tend to “sting us” and therefore are more likely to remain in our thoughts and minds. They are, consequently, more difficult to dismiss or ignore...

Dr David E Bratt updated 26/08/08

Dengue is a strange disease.

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 26/08/08

“Remember, as an Army of God, His angels on fire, you are required to let your light shine for others to see and give praise to our Father.

Clevon Raphael updated 20/08/08

Sat Maharaj updated 21/08/08

Dr Selwyn R Cudjoe’s emancipation dinner address on July 31 at the Centre of Excellence unconsciously highlighted the reason why the African condition is the way it is under the People’s National Movement (PNM).

Leela Ramdeen updated 03/07/08

Greater Caribbean This Week updated 21/07/08

Bhoendradatt-Tewarie updated 21/08/08

In the 15th century, when the Europeans on their imperial quest came to the Caribbean, the society that they met, though fairly well developed and quite sophisticated in some ways, lacked the capacity to match European power in other respects.

Attillah Springer updated 23/08/08

It was as if Shango self had taken over and won that race, strutting and proud and invincible and every leg length to the finish line was crossing seas and continents to raise a whole nation from its knees.

Gail Alexander updated 23/08/08

Lisa Allen-Agostini updated 23/08/08

The poster nice and the schedule looking good. The T&T Film Festival growing from strength to strength.