Ramdeen to face Privileges body over attack on Independent
Gail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, May 25, 2016Temporary Opposition Senator Gerald Ramdeen has been referred to the Senate’s Privileges Committee over remarks he made about temporary Independent...
View ArticleKhan: Jwala’s firing justified
Published: Wednesday, May 25, 2016Major transgressions by former Central Bank governor Jawala Rambarran included announcing the names of foreign exchange users and making statements with “bravado”,...
View ArticleRock of family died a hero
Jensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, May 25, 2016Soldier killed during home invasionRegiment Officer Corporal Jerry Leacock told his neighbours and family that anyone who came to rob him at home would...
View ArticleUNC loses appeal on La Horquetta election petition
Derek AchongPublished: Wednesday, May 25, 2016The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal from the UNC challenging the decision of a High Court judge to dismiss one of its six election petitions due to...
View ArticleOfficer falls to his death
Kevon FelminePublished: Wednesday, May 25, 2016Knowing the dangers police officers face daily, Amadeo Bahadoor always cautioned his son about being careful on the job, but when Cpl Russell Bahadoor...
View ArticleThe hindu concept of creation Part 2
Satnarayan MaharajPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016Albert Einstein, one of the giants of science, changed the course of the world with his theory of relativity and his famous equation E=mc2. For...
View ArticleRopes around the band
Wesley GibbingsPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016Some years ago, during a particularly gossipy newsroom interlude, one senior media executive was unkindly quoted as describing another very senior media...
View ArticlePiling rubbish on top of rubbish
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016The proposal to close the Beetham and Guanapo dumps, announced in Parliament by the Minister of Public Utilities is a move in the right direction, but raises serious...
View ArticleDealing with Caracas
GUEST EDITORIAL—Jamaica GleanerPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016We don’t know if former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller had used the opportunity six months ago, when Nicolas Maduro visited for the...
View ArticleShift system taking toll on parents, children
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016The parents of Princes Town Presbyterian No 1 School are humbly asking the Minister of Education to look into the status of our school. In June 2015, our school was...
View ArticleTruth so hard to find
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016With the rise of truth-challenged political heavyweights like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we now appear to be living in a post-truth universe. Or has it been so...
View ArticleHouse the homeless at One Alexandra Place
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016In 2013, I wrote an article to the Guardian which was headlined “Send homeless on a long vacation.” In that letter several important issues were addressed regarding the...
View ArticleMassy backs local food drive
Anna-Lisa PaulPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016Massy Stores is supporting an initiative to purchase more produce from local farmers. CEO Derek Winford said officials of the supermarket chain plan to...
View ArticleW Connection chases knockout hat-trick
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016T&T Pro League club W Connection wants to add the Digicel Pro Bowl title to its coffers to ease the disappointment after failing to qualify for 2017 CONCACAF...
View ArticleBirds, bugs, bats
...Naturalists celebrate 125 years of learningShereen AliPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016Pygmy owls, sharp-eyed hawks, an explosion of bats, gentle manatees, raccoons, mysterious mushrooms, fishes and...
View ArticleDiner en Blanc scores at Queen’s Hall
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016When Diner en Blanc took place in Jamaica last year, someone whispered it was not going to be long before it hit Trinidad’s shores. Diner en Blanc, is a popular event...
View ArticleHow Alta’s Spelling Programme helps
Published: Thursday, May 26, 2016Both reading and spelling require you to connect letters to speech sounds and to develop a visual memory of the letters in words. However, when you read, you see the...
View ArticleBoogsie, Ronnie and PM share A Mother’s Love
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016Having previously claimed that Invaders is his steelband, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley spent last Sunday evening with members of CAL Invaders Steel...
View ArticleDiversity through Emerging Cinema
Wesley GibbingsPublished: Thursday, May 26, 2016The inaugural edition of the World Festival of Emerging Cinema, hosted by UWI’s Film Programme between May 19 and 22, brought to audiences an intense,...
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