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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…

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…

Kamla under fire
May 4th 2012 12:00 PMLeaders taken by surprise over CCJ PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar is said to have left a number of the members of her Cabinet upset with her announcement of a decision to move away from the Privy Council to join the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) without getting the approval of read more…

Gov’t productivity failure: Part One
April 22nd 2012 12:09 PMIF we define productivity as the level of output obtained from a given unit or units of input, it could be applied to any of the traditional factors of production whether land, labour, capital or management. Today we have to add knowledge to that list. It is possible to estimate read more…

Time to unmask party financiers
April 20th 2012 12:11 PMWith the collapse of the Patrick Manning administration in 2010, midway into his five-year mandate, party financiers suffered a devastating blow to their political investments. In the first instance, this denied them the opportunity to reap the harvest of the 2007 crop, which was expected to last until the next constitutional planting read more…

Diversify Mamaguy
March 25th 2012 12:09 PMIN a column on the 11/12/11 I identified eight priority areas on which, in my view, the PP administration should focus its attention. For ease of reference, they are as follows:- (1) ensuring the safety and security of person and property (2) the thorough revamping of the whole education system read more…

Panday: Some in the PP Govt only filling their pockets
February 10th 2012 11:58 AMSCORES of disenchanted United National Congress (UNC) loyalists turned up in support of Basdeo Panday and his return to the political arena through his move to field a slate, “Generation Next”, to contest election in the party’s national executive election due on March 24. Supporters from various constituencies met last read more…



