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Fuel subsidy headed for history books?
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016Last Friday the Minister of Finance announced further increases to the prices of super gasoline and diesel. This came as no surprise. As I had mentioned before, the...
View ArticleT&T citizens must consider unemployment insurance
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016Like many citizens in T&T I am deeply concerned about the plight of the over 600 ArcelorMittal and other workers who recently lost their jobs through no fault of...
View ArticleOnline tax to benefit merchant class?
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016Online shoppers shop online to bypass local price-gouging merchants. What are we citizens to do when government sanctions us with tariffs to force us to desist from...
View ArticleWe need more of this ‘forced transparency’
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016Hooray for whistleblowers! It is because of the success of their efforts that the enormity of the secret financial industry is being revealed. People who have been...
View ArticleProtection of workers must take priority
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016The country has sustained its’ people all their lives and now it is the turn of the people to return the favour to the country. The time is right and conditions are...
View ArticleWe can be part of a champion adjustment team
Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016We are all revelling in the glorious victories of West Indies cricket teams—women, youth and senior. This has brought back great memories to a particular section of...
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Tuesday 12th January, 2016 Job Hunter
95.1Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2016URL: http://digital.guardian.co.tt/?iid=140243#folio=50
View ArticleDNA database overdue
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016There has been much concern expressed about crime, the poor detection rate and the continuing challenge of bringing police technique and its supporting technologies...
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A ‘private’ viewing
Raymond RamcharitarPublished: Wednesday, April 13, 2016Wendy Nanan is one of our more interesting artists—reclusive, unorthodox and quirky. Her most recent untitled show, which opened last week at the...
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Just not cricket
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016Kevin Baldeosingh In rumshops throughout the region, the recent success of the West Indies men’s and women’s cricket teams has stimulated much discussion and...
View ArticleTime to harness the PTA resource
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016As the country painfully seeks solutions to the growing problems within our schools, we seem to be overlooking an already existing significant resource which we need...
View ArticleT&T cannot remain a welfare state for too long
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016Should we appease our high sense of taste and go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? Or should we sacrifice our wants and bear with increase taxes, gas and...
View ArticleDevaluations do not create competitiveness
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016Dr Roger Hosein of UWI advises that the TT$ should be allowed to slide to say, TT$8 or TT$9 to the US$ as a means of improving the nation’s competitiveness on the...
View ArticleBlindsided by the knowledge economy
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016The global economy is in transition from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, where an intangible, ie “knowledge” is used to create goods and services...
View ArticleTime to end ‘we can’t eat the money’ syndrome
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016Since the Minister of Finance budget prescription, I have heard two “threats” of a possible increase in prices, the first from a doubles vendor and the other from a...
View ArticleTeachers can’t deal with young deviants
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2016It was recently published that teachers in some primary schools in east Trinidad are scared for their lives. This is also the case in the other geographical regions....
View ArticleSuspect in UK cricketer’s killing charged
Jensen La VendePublished: Saturday, April 16, 2016One of two suspects detained for the murder of British national Adrian St John was last night charged.Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard...
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AG details Emrith’s OAS, Nidco deals
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, April 16, 2016One-time United National Congress official Ken Emrith whose name has been mentioned in connection with the leaked “Panama Papers” scandal, was employed...
View ArticleWitness opts not to testify in Moruga case
Derek AchongPublished: Saturday, April 16, 2016Broken promises in protection programmeThe State’s case against six police officers charged with the murder of three civilians from Moruga in July 2011...
View ArticleNo race in SSA sackings—Dillon
Published: Saturday, April 16, 2016National Security Minister Edmund Dillon says there is no move to get rid of East Indians in the Strategic Services Agency (SSA).Dillon said that in an interview with...
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