Author: Newsday

THE EDITOR: I read where economist and former deputy governor of the Central Bank Dr Terrence Farrell said that Marla Dukharan’s analysis on billions of US dollars “missing” from this country is incorrect. “Unfortunately, Marla’s analysis and explanation is not correct. Balance of payments accounting is complicated. The more recent methodologies which attempt to account […]

ON Monday, September 23, one of our recently-rescued dogs mysteriously went missing from a friend’s fenced premises where she was being held and cared for. She had been found two weeks earlier, apparently dumped, along Golden Grove Lane, a popular site for abandonment of unwanted dogs. My two friends who had seen her there picked her up and immediately […]

STACEY SAMUEL-O’BRIEN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS has rendered me physically disabled. Over the past 19 years, as the disease progressed, I regressed from walking normally, to walking with a limp, to using a cane, to currently using a walker and a mobility scooter. While I can stand and walk in short bursts, I have to use my […]

ON Thursday, September 26, Dwayne Bravo announced his retirement from cricket entirely at the end of this Caribbean Premier League series. “Today,” he wrote on his Instagram page, “is the day I say goodbye to the game that has given me everything.” The pressures of competitive cricket had taken its toll. “My body can no […]

AT THE HEIGHT of her popularity, Winifred Atwell’s hands were insured at Lloyds for £40,000 – a huge sum for the 1950s. A stipulation of the policy: the pianist was never to wash dishes. That alone tells us about the extraordinary career of this Tunapuna-born daughter of the soil who made a name for herself […]

Statement by Catholic Commission for Social Justice on Monday’s budget AS FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert prepares to deliver potentially the last budget speech before the next general election, the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) urges the Government to prepare a budget that is oriented to the common good. As we seek to grow our […]

THE EDITOR: The TT Constitution is not founded and built upon the executive around which everything revolves. The executive dominates and controls, bestows and retracts. That is something from English constitutional-monarchal law that is not in the Constitution. Nor is the Privy Council tagged on to make it so. The Constitution sets up subsidiary structures […]

THE EDITOR: As we barrel pell-mell towards both 600 murders and another potentially impotent and anticlimactic budget presentation, I find myself, like many a TT citizen, faced with an undesirable dilemma. We are in the space between growing trepidation and outright cynicism. As Birdie, aka the Mighty Sparrow, sang so melodiously about his own impossible […]

WE CONGRATULATE those who have been singled out for honours in this year’s national awards list. While this country and its citizens face many pressing challenges, these awards remain important marks of distinction. They provide an opportunity for the nation to reflect on the excellence and achievements of a wide range of individuals in almost […]

OVER 3,000 students from more than 30 countries were welcomed into the UWI, St Augustine campus at its annual matriculation and welcome ceremony on September 19. A media release from the university dated September 23, said the ceremony was held at its Sport and Physical Education Centre (UWI SPEC). The release said this year’s theme, […]