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THE EDITOR: It is good to see the Test team fighting the good fight against Bangladesh, although we still need the powers that be to understand cricket or get people in positions who understand the game. Why is Shai Hope not on the West Indies team as captain and opener? Kraigg Braithwaite has reached his […]

THE EDITOR: The area in Barataria that includes Upper Seventh Avenue has for months been without a welfare officer to assist with pension applications, etc. And I am told they don’t know when they would get an officer. I am therefore appealing to Social Development and Family Services Minister Donna Cox to please assist as […]

A CLUSTER of entities that play sensitive roles in the crime fight – including the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) – was handed more power by Parliament on November 29. The Senate approved, without modification, a series of amendments sent to it from the House of Representatives. The changes will take effect on a date to […]

THE EDITOR: In my personal assessment, there are two main reasons why US Vice-President Kamala Harris lost the recent presidential election, due to President Joe Biden. Mistake number one was having an attorney general who dragged his feet and failed to bring charges in a timely manner against an ordinary/non-president citizen called Donald Trump. Mistake […]

THE EDITOR: The results of the recent US election should provide a sobering moment to think about the nature of our media environment. Taking nothing away from US president-elect Donald Trump, his victories in 2016 and 2024 upended political and social media systems as we thought we understood them. Something fundamental in recent times has shifted […]

Taureef Mohammed AFTER THEIR patients cross a certain age, doctors stop thinking. I carry my 94-year-old mother the other day by a specialist, a kidney specialist. Everything I ask the doctor, the doctor tell me is age. I wanted to ask the doctor: how it is that my father is the same age as my […]

Die-hard soca fans are upset about a planned concert featuring Jamaican dancehall singer Vybz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) on Carnival Friday in 2025. Protesting soca artiste Kevon “Yankey Boy” Heath argues that the event is taking bread out of the mouths of soca and calypso performers at the peak of their earning ability. But this isn’t […]

ON NOVEMBER 26, Fitzgerald Hinds was breathing fire and brimstone. But 48 hours later, the Laventille West MP was out. The Minister of National Security withdrew from PNM screening for his seat ahead of the next general election. The move was not announced publicly by the normally outspoken and loquacious MP. Instead, it was confirmed, […]

RALPH GONSALVES, 78, is back. Having already five times been elected St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, he will seek a sixth term in a general election due next year. At his party’s annual convention in Kingstown on November 24, he was selected unopposed as leader, putting him in a position to extend his […]

TERRENCE HONORE SAVING THE Queen’s Park Savannah is not just about protection from present-day “predators,” but preservation of the poignant memories of the past. Like good “policemen” of our heritage, we are all called to protect and preserve. We must honour the past by not just what we say, but what we do to save […]