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DEMANDING POLITICS BEYOND RACE
Tony Rakhal-FraserPublished: Sunday, December 11, 2016What the results of the local government elections demonstrate very clearly is dissatisfaction by segments of the electorate with the performance...
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IN DEFENCE OF WHITE PEOPLE
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2016Kevin BaldeosinghIt seems to me that many of the people outside America who are reviling the electoral victory of Donald Trump are, in fact, secretly pleased that...
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Hamid GhanyPublished: Sunday, December 11, 2016The first thing that can be established inside the numbers of the local government elections is that the turnout was 34.3 per cent, which is the lowest...
View ArticleWeeping for Shannon
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2016Just when I thought I could no longer be moved by the level of inhumanity that seems to cover us, I found myself weeping for Shannon. I don’t know Shannon, I don’t...
View ArticleDEATH BY HANGING IS LAW, ENFORCE IT
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2016The recent murder of Shannon Banfield has left the country shell-shocked. Here was a young lady in the prime of her life who was apparently preyed upon while simply...
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Creating from memory
Marsha PearcePublished: Sunday, December 11, 2016Since being given a class assignment to explore a memory, Jamaican emerging artist Kelley-Ann Lindo has been excavating and scrutinizing her bank of...
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Guyana stops buying TT dollars
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016The Bank of Guyana has temporarily stopped buying TT and Barbados dollars from cambios as part of efforts to stem increased demand for US currency.Guyana’s Central...
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Net income of $143.4m for FirstCaribbean
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016The 46 per cent increase in net income recorded by FirstCaribbean International Bank for the year ended October 31, is a significant improvement, CEO Gary Brown said...
View ArticleCANTO welcomes ICT collaboration
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016In a move to shape and align the strategic ICT agenda in the region, the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) brought several regional ICT stakeholders together...
View ArticleCHANGE PROCESS FOR FIREARMS LICENCE
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016In Trinidad and Tobago, the most difficult licence to obtain is the Firearm User’s Licence (FUL) which has literally been outlawed even if one fits the present...
View ArticleJUSTICE IN THE INDUSTRIAL COURT
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016I listened with extreme bemusement to a news report where business owner Frank Mouttet and lawyer Derek Ali criticised the Industrial Court.Frank was reported as...
View ArticleIS THIS HIGHWAY EXIT LEGAL?
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016Over the last several months, north-south commuters would not have failed to notice the spanking new Courts building between Freeport and Couva on the south-bound...
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Root cause of high murder rate must be addressed
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016The competence, or lack thereof, displayed by the T&T Police Service has become the main focus of criticism in respect to the Shannon Banfield murder.Even when...
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Ageing and pooling risk
Colin RobinsonPublished: Monday, December 12, 2016I lost my mother last year, long enough to not keep writing about it. But far worse than grief, her death revealed how much, without realising it, her...
View ArticleTrump, China and Taiwan
Published: Monday, December 12, 2016Over many years, the United States and China have managed their relations in a manner of peaceful coexistence. While they are rivals in economic, diplomatic,...
View ArticleEnding culture of violence against women
Published: Tuesday, December 13, 2016Saturday’s report in the T&T Guardian that 45 women have been murdered in this country for the year is another sickening and outrageous statistic in what has...
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WHAT THE CANARIES ARE TELLING US
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, December 13, 2016The island seems to be cracking up. My view may be influenced by age. My friends, old men all, tell me the same. However they’re are more than...
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QUESTIONS HANG OVER THE DRAGON DEAL
Published: Tuesday, December 13, 2016KEVIN RAMNARINEI have gotten many questions about the Dragon field since “something” was signed in Caracas last week. I say “something” because no one is quite sure...
View ArticleWAKE UP SILENT MAJORITY!
Published: Tuesday, December 13, 2016Fellow citizens it is high time that we wake up from this nightmare that we live out in our once beautiful T&T. A nightmare nurtured by the respective...
View ArticleFARCICAL STATEMENT FROM TTPS
Published: Tuesday, December 13, 2016I refer to a recent statement by Ellen Lewis, Head of Corporate Communications of the T&T Police Service (TTPS), in which she purported to have said that the...
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