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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…

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…

Manning, The Genius
April 20th 2012 12:10 PMI never thought that Patrick Manning was such a genius and soothsayer, especially when he told us that one could turn ordinary CEPEP managers into captains of national and international industries; that, in fact, they could run corporations worth billions of dollars without flinching; and all that one needed to read more…

Muriel jumping ship?
March 23rd 2012 12:13 PMFrom Our Files: January 9th, 1990 She heaps praises on NAR; embarrasses PNM MURIEL DONAWA-Mc DAVIDSON must be about ready to abandon the People’s National Movement (PNM) to join forces with the NAR Government. It’s either that or she is bent on embarrassing her political leader Patrick Manning for yet read more…

Honest representation
March 18th 2012 3:01 PMSOMEWHERE along the road, politics seems to have stopped being about representing the people and became something more like performing for them. Clearly visible during interviews and debates, candidates and public officials alike are seen to take a pause between question asked and answer given, to defer to what they read more…

NAR power-brokers favour Dookeran
February 19th 2012 12:16 PMFrom Our Files: April 3rd 1990 …to lead party in ‘91 WINSTON DOOKERAN, Minister of Planning and Mobilisation, has been earmarked to become the country’s next Prime Minister as power brokers in the ONR faction of the ruling National Alliance for Reconstruction prepare to ask ANR Robinson to step down read more…

Dr. Manning upsets Indian drug company
February 12th 2012 12:17 PMLOCAL representatives of the Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Ranbaxy have reportedly recorded a radio interview with Dr. Petronella Manning-Alleyne in which she is alleged to have linked the company to certain substandard drugs sold on the market. Dr. Manning-Alleyne has come out publicly to highlight the low standard of medications being read more…



