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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…

Ambitions take flight
March 16th 2012 12:09 PMIT should be a cause for deep concern in the national population that despite the embarrassment of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s unrelenting overseas travel engagements, there seems to be no end to the appetite for foreign trips. The latest embarrassment which broke while the PM was yet again out of read more…

Kamla’s mystery illness
February 5th 2012 12:00 PMPM no longer working from her office as concerns rise over EVEN as former Prime Minister Patrick Manning continues to battle his major health challenge at the San Fernando General Hospital, concerns are also being expressed about the health of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has had a prolonged absence read more…

UFM knocks sale of G Pan to India
January 29th 2012 11:56 AMATTORNEY-AT-LAW and leader of the United Free Movement Peter Taylor has expressed concerns about the possibility of the government issuing licenses to manufacture the steel pan in India. Taylor is also questioning why has the current government been silent on the potential benefits set to accrue to Trinidad and Tobago read more…

Kamla’s delicate dance
January 27th 2012 12:40 PMQUESTION: IF Trinidad and Tobago were 100 percent Hindus, would our response to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar kissing President Pratibha Patil’s toes elicit a different response? I suspect it would. But only 35 percent of Trinidad and Tobago’s population are Hindus and therein lays the conundrum. Such a move calls read more…

Bitter battle
January 27th 2012 12:00 PMLeaked e-mails show Griffith waging war against Sandy A WAR has broken out between the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and the Ministry of National Security over the operations of the National Security Operations Centre (NSOC) and is pitting the Prime Minister’s Advisor, Gary Griffith, against National Security Minister read more…

Reporters missing in action
January 20th 2012 12:53 PMMedia Watch finds it strange that after praising the reporting pool which was accompanying her to India, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s visit was covered mainly through reports from the India media which were repeated in the local press. Things got so bad that in order to communicate what was happening read more…



