Mrs Fete

Kamla keeps up heavy party schedule Amidst fiery protests in the Siparia constituency and bitter complaints by some constituents that she is missing in action, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is keeping up a heavy party schedule of Carnival fetes, in one instance hitting three — in different parts of the read more…

Love in the Time of Confusion
February 17th 2012 12:09 PMI believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier. Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be…. The Greatest Love of All, read more…

Time for change
February 17th 2012 12:08 PMI CAN still hear Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s voice as it caressed the late afternoon air at the UNC’s final rally at Aranguez Savannah on May 22, 2010 as she offered the following paean: “Thank you to those who are here—thank you to those watching at home. Two days … We have read more…

Probing deeply
February 12th 2012 12:12 PMALL of a sudden Trinidad seems to have moved from being a place where nothing mattered to one where everything matters. I do not know if it is because of the sheer number of attorneys needing work, but as everything that is being questioned wants to generate an expensive enquiry read more…

Fixing the health system
February 12th 2012 12:11 PMI HAVE dwelt on the many facets of national life which impinge directly or indirectly on the general standard of health. I have also alluded to the multi-faceted nature of the approaches to disease prevention and maintenance of health in the general population. If, for example, we take into account read more…

Call in the Americans
February 10th 2012 12:14 PMFORTY-ODD murders in 35 days is a ridiculously high number for a country of 1.3 million people, and we should be getting little comfort from statistics that indicate the numbers may or may not be minimally down from last year. The fact of the matter is that one murder per read more…

Little Jack Warner
February 10th 2012 12:13 PMINITIALLY, Jack wept publicly because he wanted to persuade black people that he felt their pain. Like Brigadier John Sandy, his enabler, he just could not stand how black people were killing one another so he joined his UNC colleagues to impose a state of emergency that threw black people read more…



