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Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery read more…

Alliance gears for civil war
May 4th 2012 12:12 PMFrom Our Files: July 7th 1982 THE official Opposition in the House of Representatives, the Alliance (ULF, DAC and Tapia) is gearing itself for civil war. Leader Basdeo Panday, who first sounded the battle cry a few weeks ago, has now received the solid backing of several top men in read more…

Where Prakash went wrong
April 15th 2012 12:10 PMBasdeo Panday was not the first to say it, but he is the one who get’s the credit for it here in T&T, that politics has a morality of its own. The system that we have inherited leaves little room for hard and fast positions and much of what is read more…

Diversification challenge
April 15th 2012 12:10 PMIn my previous column, I commented on the preoccupation of the UNC administration with the reform programmes devised by the multilateral lending institutions and the time and energy expended on them to the detriment of any focus on diversification of the economy. I was a significant party to this lapse. read more…

Baptists practiced their religion on the run
April 1st 2012 12:08 PMA man with a deep religious conviction, Reverend Anthony Clarke exudes a high level of wisdom, intelligence, the quest for uplifting human dignity and a plan for a better life. “I am a Spiritual Baptist/Orisha, a child of astrology. I was selected by the Divine spirit,’’ said Rev Clarke, spiritual read more…

Why blacks still don’t trust the UNC
March 30th 2012 10:57 PMSHAME, shame, shame! The recently concluded UNC internal elections were an atrocious display of lies, half-truths and innuendos in full glare of the curious public that observed our election. It was a spectacle of the cabalism and moral decadence at an all-time low. But, oh, what a tangled web they read more…

Jack Warner rises
March 30th 2012 7:22 PMWHILE it must be clear that Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner was the biggest winner in last Saturday’s UNC internal elections, the losers are not just the unsuccessful candidates who offered themselves for election. Although the Nationalists slate of Deputy Political Leader Roodal Moonilal would have been happy at read more…



