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THE EDITOR: In analysing our country’s crime, bullying, violence, including school indiscipline, it is my opinion that disrespect for one another and a general lack of expected behaviour – also the examples that our parliamentarians as exemplars are unable to significantly set – add to the violent culture that we now find ourselves dealing with. […]

THE EDITOR: I write to highlight a severe problem at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mount Hope. Presently, there are patients of the heart, kidney and other clinics who have not seen a doctor for at least three years or so. What is happening at the complex is that every six months the patient […]

THE EDITOR: There seems to be no serious response to bullying in schools from either Prime Minister Rowley or his Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, as evidenced by their statements on bullying and gang warfare in schools. It seems that statements coming from the political leaders suggest they just do not care, and that we […]

THE EDITOR: If you call on us to trust, then verify we must! I am calling on Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher to provide clear guidance to citizens on how they should react when confronted by members of the TTPS, either real or fake. Should people immediately stop if a police vehicle attempts to force […]

THE EDITOR: “Zeitgeist” – the spirit of the age. Is our zeitgeist wickedness? There is a toxic lust for violence strangling our communities and poisoning the veins of our youths. Have we forgotten the tenets of our watchwords, discipline, tolerance and production, with discipline being primary? Why is it so exciting to be “Trinibad?” If […]

THE EDITOR: The nation awaits news on the latest case of domestic violence and if more lives were lost. Domestic violence has taken the form of an octopus which has extended its tentacles to embrace our children who have already been traumatised and mentally destabilised in their homes and classrooms. We are dealing with perpetrators […]

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THE EDITOR: Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stuart Young needs to mind his business. He needs to get on with the business of overseeing the Ministry of Energy and representing the interests of his constituents. What he does not need to do is mind the business of and pry into the personal lives […]

Dr Rita Pemberton THE NOTION of emancipation of the enslaved population in the British-colonised Caribbean conjured up fears of violent retribution to the planting community and total mayhem in the region in the years after enslavement ended. Planting communities across the region were highly agitated over this possibility, which engaged the attention of the imperial […]

In late August, I left for Barbados to attend the second launch of Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean. During the brief trip from the airport, I chatted with the taxi driver, Michael, who briefly explained the public’s response to the removal of the Lord Nelson statue from Bridgetown. The venue of the […]