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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…

Gopeesingh’s Homework
May 4th 2012 12:07 PMTHERE is no doubt that Education Minister Dr. Tim Gopeesingh is a man committed to his job and genuinely desires to see a vast improvement in the operations of his Ministry but also, more importantly, higher success rates among the tens of thousands of students who take the various examinations read more…

Teachers eating students’ lunches
April 20th 2012 12:04 PMMinistry probe finds TnT Mirror has learnt that it was brought to the attention of Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh that the teachers at North Eastern College, Sangre Grande, had been pilfering school lunches that have been provided by National Schools Dietary Services (NSDS) agency for the students. The whistleblower, read more…

Kamla had no praise for Warner at UNC Rally
January 29th 2012 11:57 AMWorks and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner was left in the cold and got no kudos from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar when she spoke of the list of accomplishments of other senior Cabinet Ministers at the United National Congress (UNC) second anniversary of Persad-Bissessar’s elevation to political leader of the party. read more…

Quantity for quality in T&T Education
January 1st 2012 10:42 AMFor any country, the productive functioning of its education system is of the greatest priority. In today’s globalised world, competition among countries is inevitable and it is the general quality of education imparted to its citizens, among other things, that will determine which country forges ahead and which lags behind. read more…

Scandals of the year
December 30th 2011 7:32 PMPolitical scandal of the year Reshmi Ramnarine IT broke at the beginning of the year and reverberated for months, shaking the already wobbling confidence the public had in the still relatively young People’s Partnership Government. It started off with an understated press release that 30-year-old Ramnarine had been appointed head read more…




