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Cuba open for T&T business
Rapheal John-LallPublished: Saturday, February 27, 2016Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses is urging T&T companies to look for new business opportunities in Cuba as that country continues to open...
View ArticleECA denies link to Facebook audio
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2016The Employers Consultative Association (ECA) has distance itself from an audio tape circulating on Facebook which contains erroneous claims by a company to a...
View ArticleYouths show the best of T&T
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2016Quietly, unobtrusively, primary and secondary schools students have been participating in this year’s Music Festival at the Queens Hall, continuing a tradition...
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Monster High
Paolo KernahanPublished: Saturday, February 27, 2016Reports of a planned gang offensive at a Central Trinidad school triggered shock waves. That anyone should be horrified at the prospect of a...
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Pre-retreat: PNM probes members’ views
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, February 27, 2016Despite the badboy behaviour among some Government MPs—the usual suspects—in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Keith Rowley escaped making the...
View ArticleEducation Minister taking bull by the horns
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2016Bold action has now been taken by the Minister of Education, Mr Anthony Garcia in having 24 students removed from the Chaguanas North Secondary School. He must be...
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MAN & CHILD: Making little monsters
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2016Kevin BaldeosinghThe majority of parents in T&T believe that tolerance, respect and obedience are the most important qualities a child should learn, according...
View ArticleFailure of Parliament Committee on national security
Published: Saturday, February 27, 2016The Parliament should be ashamed of the functioning of its Joint Parliament Committee on National Security that was established on November 13, 2015—more than...
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Is T&T on the path to failed state?
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2016Mickela PandayGiven the crime epidemic that has been plaguing our nation over the last 15 years and successive governments’ inability to deal with the issues of...
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Historic inequality against Laventille
Tony FraserPublished: Sunday, February 28, 2016Historic inequality perpetrated against the people of Laventille—inequality which has ranged through discrimination in educational and job opportunities,...
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Breeding monsters: An old debate?
Hamid GhanyPublished: Sunday, February 28, 2016Last Monday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley created a firestorm of controversy when he told the National Consultation on Education session in Tobago that...
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Where will Holness take Jamaica?
Mark WilsonPublished: Sunday, February 28, 2016“I’ve already promised to eat my sweaty football sock if the JLP win,” said a Jamaica journalist on Tuesday.On Thursday night, he was checking out...
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Gang of fools
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2016Kevin BaldeosinghSchool gangs in central Trinidad now enjoy a power and prestige they didn’t have two weeks ago, thanks to Education Minister Anthony Garcia,...
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Tackle climate change, national debt together
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2016Deodat MaharajFor many Caribbean leaders, the long walk down a village road after a violent storm to witness first-hand the devastation to infrastructure and to...
View ArticleEducation system failing youths
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2016While the debate rages about the ‘illiteracy’ problem in T&T, a cursory search of the Internet reveals some alarming statistics.The United Nations Educational,...
View ArticleIs boot camp the solution?
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2016It is said that desperate times require desperate measures, but I hasten to add that in spite of our desperation to fix the problem of school violence, I implore...
View ArticleBusiness sector mum on job losses
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2016The public is watching and listening carefully to the deafening silence of the business sector as employees are being retrenched almost on a daily basis. Why haven’t...
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A Bacchus Minus Bacchanal
As told to BC PiresPublished: Monday, February 29, 2016TRINI TO D BONEMy name is Sophia Bacchus and I’m the manager of a condominium complex.Bacchus is a good Trinidadian Carnival name but I don’t play...
View ArticleFire officers save furniture factory
Published: Monday, February 29, 2016A quick response by Mon Repos fire fighters averted a possible million-dollar disaster as they battled a raging bush fire that set ablaze near UMR Furniture...
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