Author: Newsday

Kristen-Le Chelle Winchester IN the village of Moruga, Lina Emily Chance-Bhagwat is making big steps by “changing the world one egg at a time” with her free range chicken farm. At ten years old, the Moruga-born entrepreneur, is focused on building the Lina’s Free Range Eggs brand for her community. She believes placing focus on […]

It’s astonishing that illegal quarrying, a crime that requires heavy machinery and multi-tonne trucks, continues so casually in TT. In March 2023, the Ministry of Energy told Parliament that it relied on Google Earth to monitor quarrying. The last formal aerial survey of the TT landscape to identify quarry sites was in 2014. This isn’t […]

I’ve been on about love for a couple of weeks now. Not because I think it’s the most important thing. Not because I think it solves everything. What I have noticed is that its presence or absence, the perception of its weight in someone’s life, seems to skew the view of things. So, I’m rolling […]

AUGUST is supposed to be a month of celebration. Instead, when the protective services line up at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, for the Independence Day parade, they will do so under the pall of spiralling murders. Instead of the focus being on 62 years of autonomy, it will be on a year […]

THE EDITOR: We listened with rapt attention as Keith Scotland SC delivered the PNM’s findings and proposals on constitutional reform at the PNM convention on August 18, never failing to underscore the importance and value of this exercise. To my great satisfaction and that of my reluctant, sceptical 17-year-old grandson, unlike other undertakings of this […]

THE EDITOR: On Sunday afternoon I watched online as the PNM held a special national convention to deal with the party’s submission to the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform, which submitted its report following a lengthy national consultation. What I saw was a political party led by its executive leadership taking decisions on matters […]

DINESH RAMBALLY “Trinidad is pan. Pan is African. Why does this fact find so much opposition ridicule?” – Leroy Clarke, Express, February 6, 1998 THE ERUPTION of controversy and racial animus triggered by the Prime Minister’s out-of-nowhere announcement about placing the steelpan on the coat of arms has apparently served its purpose. Now no one […]

THE EDITOR: Replacing Columbus’s ships with the steelpan arguably would present for an emblem that is more nationally well-rounded. But does this mean that the other colonial elements, such as the helmet and ship wheel, of the coat of arms will also be replaced? We should not pick and choose the history we want represented. […]

THE EDITOR: The tragic death of eight-year-old Nelisha Narine, who passed away in her mother’s arms on August 14, is profoundly heart-wrenching. According to her death certificate, Nelisha succumbed to dengue fever. However, disturbing reports have emerged that on August 9 she was denied treatment at the Princes Town Health Centre and was told to […]

THE EDITOR: Prime Minister Rowley has promised to alter the coat of arms by replacing the ships with the steelpan. This specifically seems as politricking, although for generations we have been taught a false narrative about Christopher Columbus discovering our islands. While this debate might carry some symbolic weight, it raises crucial questions as to […]