Ryan eats a food

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…

Ryan eats a food
May 13th 2012 12:00 PMProfessor 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…

PP squabbles
May 6th 2012 12:10 PMAT the San Fernando City Corporation, embattled Mayor Marlene Coudray has for weeks been at loggerheads with councillors of her erstwhile party, the Congress of the People (COP); her deputy Mayor Navi Muradali; as well as members of her current party, the United National Congress (UNC), in the person of read more…

Fiery
May 6th 2012 12:00 PMJack puts heat on Prakash in Cabinet FAR from the “cordial” description attached to Wednesday’s marathon special/emergency Cabinet meeting by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Cabinet sources told TnT Mirror that the meeting was at times quite fiery, with Works Minister and UNC Chairman Jack Warner at the behest of the read more…

Wattie moves out
April 27th 2012 12:00 PMMirror report forces PM’s sister out official residence PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s sister, Vidwatie Newton, and her family have packed up and moved out of the official PM’s residence at St. Ann’s, Port of Spain. Newton and her sons are now staying at Persad-Bissessar’s Philippine private residence in South Trinidad. 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…

God is a Trini – a mindset
April 8th 2012 12:10 PMThe sentiment, or is it conviction, that God is a Trini seems to be pervasive throughout all strata of this society. It is assumed that God will bless us with luck, provide bountiful resources and come to our rescue in times of need. A corollary to this mode of thinking read more…



