Author: Newsday

Taureef Mohammed WHAT does it mean to get old? As a doctor who sees old people in the hospital and outpatient clinics, I have a skewed view: getting old means more medical problems – more doctor visits, more medications, more aches and pains, decreasing kidney function, stiffened blood vessels, increased risk of dementia, cancer, and […]

To describe Machel Montano’s Carnival season as successful would be an understatement. The soca star entered the Chutney Soca Monarch competition for the first time and won. The song, Pepper Vine, had a ground-breaking mix featuring Lady Lava, the “queen of steam,” and the queen of chutney soca, Drupatee Ramgoonai. Montano had given us a […]

TWO VERY different stories about Sea Lots have been told in recent days. There is the story of Yung Bredda’s Carnival season rise, culminating in him becoming the people’s choice at Dimanche Gras on March 2. And there is the story of crime, paraded to the office of acting Commissioner of Police Junior Benjamin by […]

THE EDITOR: This year International Women’s Day falls on a Saturday, a day when the noise of corporate PR campaigns, performative speeches, and token gestures can take a back seat. No forced breakfasts, no panel discussions where the same voices echo empty promises, no hashtags masking inaction. Instead, today is for real reflection – a […]

THE EDITOR: The unpredictability of Donald Trump’s White House is both its defining trait and its most destabilising force. From day one Trump’s brash, erratic leadership left allies, adversaries, and Americans struggling to decipher his true intentions. For him, unpredictability isn’t accidental – it is a deliberate strategy honed through decades in New York real […]

Annaya Baird, winner of Coco Velvet International Top Model 2024 contest made her international runway debut at Milan Autumn/Winter 2025 Fashion Week on March 1. The statuesque graduate of Bishop East High School walked for Florence-based fashion label Ermanno Scervino, making her Tobago’s first fashion model to walk at Paris or Milan Fashion Week, a […]

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WHAT happened to Keiron Simon? Almost two weeks after the Coast Guard issued an official statement on February 21 confirming the loss of the able seaman in a boarding operation which saw three foreign nationals arrested, the public still does not have a clear enough idea. According to the Coast Guard, Mr Simon was one […]

DR MARGARET NAKHID-CHATOOR INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is celebrated every year on March 8. The theme for 2025 is Accelerate Action – to move beyond ineffective strategies for women and increase efforts to promote gender equality. Ineffective policies concerning women and girls in TT often stem from outdated frameworks, lack of enforcement, or a failure to […]

Jerome Teelucksingh INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day will be celebrated on Saturday. And there is a need to remember the many caring and patriotic women. In the Presbyterian Church, women played a crucial role in uplifting females in our country’s education system. From 1876 to 1901, the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS), based in Canada, sent 14 […]