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THE EDITOR: Is former commissioner of police and political leader of the National Transformation Alliance (NTA) for real? I am reading on social media and listening to him on various networks claiming that he represents the members of the Congress of the People (COP). Although Winston Dookeran is now out of the politics, I am […]

THE EDITOR: I went Tobago for a recent weekend, carried the family, decided against the boat because of the time, rented a car, and it was great. Hopped on the plane, an ATR BW1500, left at 5.45 am, just like the boarding pass said, and touched down 20 minutes later in Tobago. I returned the […]

It didn’t take long for Jamaica dancehall artiste Beenie Man (Moses Davis) to walk back comments about the popular local street food, doubles. Speaking on a US podcast, Mr Davis declared that while TT was his second favourite country, he did not eat doubles “because dogs did not eat it.” Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Amery […]

Fr Martin Sirju WORLD Interfaith Harmony Week was celebrated from February 1-7. The week is set aside by the United Nations since 2010 to focus on the importance of interfaith relations and what we can do as a body to pray and work together to enhance peace, foster dialogue, undertake joint projects, and help save […]

THE EDITOR: Next year TT enters its 50th year as a republic. Our past experiences clearly show that there is an urgent need for meaningful constitutional revision. More importantly, based on the most recent events as unfolding in the public domain as they relate to the executive, administrative and judicial arms of governance, serious amendments […]

Taureef Mohammed THE PATIENT lying in the bed was a living corpse: the heart tracing looked perfect, the blood pressure looked adequate, oxygen saturation was over 90 per cent, but, still, the patient looked dead. It seemed like life had been sucked out of him. He looked frail. When he opened his eyes he stared […]

Rushton Paray Mayaro MP The recent protests at Ramjattan Trace, Arima, highlight the growing squatting crisis in TT. Over 60,000 families live in unregulated settlements, facing poor living conditions and tenuous legal status. In this specific case, residents report receiving eviction notices that lack official verification, creating significant fear and confusion. Many of them have […]

What do you get for the woman who has everything, including menopause? Soon it will be Valentine’s Day and while the chocolates and flowers still manage to get sold, some people do want or need something more. There’s a whole community of women looking for something more than roses. Or different. I think a lot […]

DONALD TRUMP campaigned on undoing the work of Joe Biden and Barack Obama. But with his administration’s abrupt gutting of USAID, he has taken aim not at his immediate predecessors but the legacy of John F Kennedy. In 1961, Mr Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law and created the US Agency for International […]

THE EDITOR: The recent arrest of Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher on an allegation that she committed the criminal offence of misbehaviour in public office by facilitating the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) to purchase two sniper rifles from a legal firearms dealer (AE Tactical Co) sent shock waves throughout the entire Caribbean region and […]