Levels of under-employment growing—Khan
Gail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, November 25, 2015The State will have to synchronise the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) programme and tertiary facilities to produce graduates the...
View ArticleAnand under fire in defamation suit
Derek AchongPublished: Wednesday, November 25, 2015Former attorney general Anand Ramlogan’s professional reputation was called into question as he took the witness stand to defend himself in his...
View ArticleFugitive deported from Grenada, faces 11 charges
Published: Wednesday, November 25, 2015After spending over five years on the run, a 29-year-old man from Barataria was deported from Grenada last week to face charges in relation to an armed robbery in...
View ArticleAids deaths down by 61% in Caribbean
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Wednesday, November 25, 2015In the last ten years alone the Caribbean achieved a 61 per cent reduction in Aids-related deaths, according to a report, titled Focus on location...
View ArticleSchool principal: We are in need of teachers
Kalifa ClynePublished: Friday, November 27, 2015Consider teaching as a profession to contribute value to society.This was the advice given by principal of Presentation College, Chaguanas, Gary Ribeiro...
View ArticleFAO: Challenge to feed increasing population
Yvonne WebbPublished: Friday, November 27, 2015Lisa Martinez, the programme associate of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations country office in T&T and Suriname, says...
View ArticleSpeed guns can save lives, says Arrive Alive
Call for urgent implementationGeisha KowlessarPublished: Friday, November 27, 2015Concerns are being raised by president of Arrive Alive Sharon Inglefield that neither the speed guns nor the new Motor...
View ArticleNatuc threatens fallout over absence of social dialogue
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Friday, November 27, 2015There are rumblings in the trade union movement, with a warning coming from the National Trade Union Centre (Natuc) of an impending fallout if...
View ArticleFaster medical responses needed
Published: Friday, November 27, 2015Public complaints about the slow response times from ambulances are not new and the heart-wrenching account of the incident by Mr Sitahal’s widow should evoke an...
View ArticleDoors for Security of your home
Published: Friday, November 27, 2015Periodically one reads about thieves who forced their way into a home through one of the doors. Indeed, at one time in Guyana such thieves were described as “Kick...
View Article‘Foreign policy’ is really crimes against humanity
Published: Friday, November 27, 2015In response to an article written by Ryan Hadeed on November 25, I am most happy that he was cognisant of the fact that there are two sides to the violence that...
View ArticleBrothers in Ears
The Book of Kenrick Part XXIIBC PiresPublished: Friday, November 27, 2015Four years ago God the Uncle—my imaginary Uncle Godfrey—called me to sum up the Bible in the voice of Kenrick, the kind of tess...
View ArticleThe UNC internal elections
Paolo KernahanPublished: Saturday, November 28, 2015Just under 100,000 citizens are registered to vote on December 5 in the UNC internal elections. This contest raises some interesting issues which...
View ArticleChallenges for PNM Govt, Opposition PP
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, November 28, 2015There were two “new” leaders in Parliament yesterday.Opposition UNC MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie was sitting at Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissesar’s right...
View ArticlePathologists’ findings crush public confidence
Published: Saturday, November 28, 2015This is not the first time that we have had drastic and conflicting differences in the findings of pathologists’ works in T&T. Are these becoming pathological...
View ArticleMAN & CHILD: Why fathers matter
Published: Saturday, November 28, 2015KEVIN BALDEOSINGHConsider the headline of this column. If it had been “Why Mothers Matter,” you would probably not be reading this sentence since you would have...
View ArticleThe line of least resistance
Published: Saturday, November 28, 2015What a difference a month or two or even a week makes.On either side of a general election and “regime change,” the perspectives on issues change; or so we are...
View ArticleHusband seeks answer as mom, baby die at Mt Hope
Kalifa ClynePublished: Saturday, November 28, 2015A series of events, starting with excessive bleeding that led to shock and cardiac arrest, may have led to the death of mother Candace Santo and her...
View ArticleDesperate mom pleads for help
Published: Saturday, November 28, 2015Arima family struggling to get by…OTTO CARRINGTON and MICHAEL RAMSINGHA mother is now pleading for the public’s help to get her family out of the abject poverty in...
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