
Stealing from the public purse
May 4th 2012 12:09 PMTHE news flooded the airways and inundated the newspapers: “Vidwatie Newton, the sister of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, travelled first class when she accompanied the PM on her recent trip to India … The total cost of Newton’s travel to India was $233,600” (Express, April 27). “The Office of the read more…

Wake me up when it’s over
May 4th 2012 12:08 PMDURING the 1990 coup attempt, when Imam Abu Bakr and his boys stormed the Red House (Parliament) it is alleged that a politician declared, “Wake me up when it is over.” The NAR was the government at the time under a similar arrangement that exists now with the Pee Pee government. However, read more…

Farewell to COP
April 29th 2012 12:11 PMTAKING the issue of where the Congress of the People goes from here now that the lustre of the Partnership has been indelibly tarnished and the myth of new politics exposed as nothing more than a campaign slogan, the question has to be asked on behalf of the party and read more…

70% of workers not unionised
April 29th 2012 12:10 PMPRODUCTIVITY levels are also affected by the industrial relations climate generally in a country. Where there is simmering dissatisfaction and disaffection among the work force with respect to perceptions of oppressive procedures and inequitable distribution, there will be a high degree of demotivation and indifference to effort among the workers. read more…

I won’t be silenced
April 27th 2012 12:13 PMFRIENDS, I make no apologies to anyone for accepting the opportunity to write a column in the TnT Mirror, and by extension the views that I have expressed thus far. What is of utmost importance to me at this time is that my views are not a result of pressure read more…

Common nonsense
April 27th 2012 12:12 PMDR. KARL CASE, a dear friend and one of the most eminent economists in the United States, has always pointed out to me that part of the greatness of the United States lies in innovative scientific research that takes place at its MITs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and its California read more…



