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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…

Gays/lesbians take their cause on the road
May 11th 2012 12:01 PMLESBIAN, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activists have been revving up their efforts to drum up support for including sexual orientation among the statuses protected by the Equal Opportunity Act. It’s a push that will culminate with a mid-day march on Friday from the Equal Opportunity Commission at the Ceramic read more…

Bar-room brawl on UWI campus
March 2nd 2012 12:16 PMFrom Our Files: April 29th 1973 A NEW report of hooliganism has come out of the campus of the University of the West Indies (U.W.I). Officers of UWI Guild Council who control the bar are still angry over a Western-style brawl that took place in the bar on the Campus read more…

Rising protests at UWI
February 12th 2012 11:59 AMBy ANDRE CUFFIE STUDENTS at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus last Wednesday staged yet another protest, this time over the university’s decision to site two classrooms at the Humanities undercroft, a popular liming spot outside the Humanities building near the JFK Quadrangle. The protest was again read more…

UWI guild president vows to save Campus Carnival
February 10th 2012 12:01 PMBy Andre Cuffie President of the Students’ Guild of the University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus Amilcar Sanatan is intent on reversing the UWI administration’s decision to cancel the Campus’ Carnival parade. Sanatan told TnT Mirror the event is important to students and the Guild is opposed to read more…

Lois D’or earmarked for Tobago’s first university campus
February 5th 2012 12:08 PMTHE Indian Point Estate of Lois D’or in Windward Tobago has emerged as the front-runner for the location of the Tobago Integrated University Campus. Mirror got word about this following a visit by a high-powered team to several different sites last week Saturday. The new integrated campus is expected to read more…

Kudos to MATT
January 20th 2012 12:40 PMMedia Watch was pleasantly surprised when the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago hosted a luncheon two weeks ago which featured Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs as the feature speaker, followed by a question and answer session with reporters. Such gatherings used to be a monthly feature up to two decades read more…



