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Saturday 13th December, 2008

 
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Guardian Columnists
Sunday

Anand Ramlogan updated 07/12/08

Can you imagine how different this country could have been today, if Basdeo Panday had managed his temper, swallowed his pride.

Dana Seetahal updated 07/12/08

Was it not just a few months ago that the Government was talking about the purchase of a private jet? Now we read of the Prime Minister travelling to Cuba on a commercial airline. Shades of how the mighty have fallen, one might think.

Derren Joseph updated 07/12/08

On Thursday afternoon, on NCC Channel 4, there was a broadcast of The Stars are Shining Brightly 4—A Celebration of Musical Melodies.

Dennis Pantin updated 07/12/08

For the first time since World War II, as a recent report points out, the USA, Europe and Japan are all simultaneously in economic recession.

Denzil Mohammed updated 07/12/08

Calling all heteros: stand up for yourselves! Stand erect! It’s time for your voices to be heard! There’s a strange wind blowing over this land. A wind of change, but not of the good, righteous, religious kind.

Lennox Grant updated 07/12/08

Mumbai, scene of recent terrorist massacre and hostage-taking, was still called Bombay in 1990. In July that year, Bombay Bazaar was a Port-of-Spain shop among those looted or gutted—or both—amid terrorist bombing, shooting and hostage-taking.

Martin George updated 30/11/08

With a murder toll hovering just below 500, and we’re not even into December yet, it is quite obvious that the toll will cross clear past the 501 mark, a record that is precious to us all in the realm of cricket for much more noble and genteel reasons.

Ira Mathur updated 16/11/08

There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.

Monday

Debbie Jacob updated 08/12/08

You could give your teenager the vampire of her dreams. Of course I’m talking about the Twilight series that is enjoying unbelievable popularity among girls.

Fr Henry Charles updated 08/12/08

Most people today recognise that the creation of an ethical culture is a pressing task for corporations, especially for corporate executives, but we do not to a similar degree hold that the same applies to governments and government executives, indeed to all leaders in all forms of institutional governance.

Prakash Persad updated 01/12/08

The horrific attack on innocent citizens in Mumbai (on-going as this article is being written) must give the world an urgent reason to pause and rethink a new course of action to protect its population from terrorists.

Tuesday

Dr David E Bratt updated 09/12/08

Diseases are facts of nature, whereas diagnoses are artifacts, words constructed by human beings. 

Pastor Clive Dottin updated 09/12/08

Blackmailers are beasts in human form.

 

Wednesday

Clevon Raphael updated 10/12/08

I recently received a plea for help from a gentleman who visited me and who gave me what follows below in strict confidence.

Tony Fraser updated 10/12/08

In times of famine, West Indian cricket fanatics can take comfort in the memories of the times of plenty.

 

Thursday

Sat Maharaj updated 11/12/08

Minister of Agriculture Arnold Piggott recently, in Parliament, chastised the farming sector for planting crops too close to the waterways.

Leela Ramdeen updated 09/07/08

 

Bhoendradatt-Tewarie updated 09/09/08

 

Paolo Kernahan updated 11/12/08

On the first day of Christmas my PM said to me Paolo is bes’ you learn to ban your belly.

 

Friday

Peter Ray Blood's Pulse Column updated 12/12/08

Tomorrow night I head beyond the Caroni plains for some southern hospitality and the opening of We People International’s mas camp, at 110 Jazz and Calypso Lounge, on Cipero Street, San Fernando.

Selwyn R Cudjoe upadted 06/11/08

Leaders in our country claim that they practise Obama-style politics but after thorough forensic analysis, it is clear that this popular catch phrase is merely a spouting of words to add to the already overflowing pot of political propaganda.

Vaneisa Baksh updated 12/12/08

When I was sick and lay in bed, boredom was a challenge, and I would scrounge around my bookshelves looking for ones that had got away, or old faithfuls to revisit.

Gillian Lucky updated 12/12/08

 

 

Saturday

Attillah Springer updated 13/12/08

I feel like I need to issue a disclaimer.

Gail Alexander updated 13/12/08

Former Minister Keith Rowley joked heartily with PNM MP Neil Parsanlal.

Lisa Allen-Agostini updated 13/12/08

 

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