Author: marinasb

Trinidad and Tobago is seldom mentioned, whatever the reason, in the world’s leading non-English newspapers. Yet last week we appeared in none other than El País, Spain’s equivalent of Le Monde (France), the Times (UK), the Washington Post (US), Corriere della Sera (Italy) and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It was a totally by-the-way mention, but […]

THE life of Sir Shridath Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OCC, NIIV, OM, KC, FRSA, who gently passed away on August 30, aged 95, in Barbados, cannot go unremarked by this column. His was an extraordinary public life by anyone’s account. In 1990, Nelson Mandela said this of him, “He is one of those men […]

PUTTING oneself in another person’s shoes is one very good way of understanding their perspective. Yet it is something we rarely do. I was brought up on that wisdom, but I was well into my 40s when I put it into practice in a very practical way. My partner was six foot three and I […]