Author: Newsday

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 […]

THE EDITOR: With the 2025 Carnival season in swing, with Panorama competitions having already started, and with this year being the 62nd anniversary of this steelband competition, it is heartening to see the primary and secondary schools having a competition of their own, so too the junior steel orchestras. On another note, I take the […]

THE EDITOR: I take issue with, at the risk of being further ostracised by the political leader and my fellow PNM members, the outgoing Prime Minister/party leader’s inappropriate, untimely and highly questionable utterance on February 1, re the party’s constitution on the selection of candidates for the general election. He is the chairman of the […]