Author: Sean Douglas

VENEZUELAN criminal gangs are participating in serious crime in Trinidad and Tobago, both in competition and collaboration with local gangs, said a UN report publicised on September 2, titled Caribbean Gangs: Drugs, Firearms and Gangs (sic)  Networks in Jamaica, St Lucia, Guyana and TT. The report listed the types of crimes engaged in by Venezuelan […]

WHILE the doors of TT’s schools will open to 23 Venezuelan children next month, hundreds of others will remain locked outside the education system. Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly listed all the preparations – legal, administrative and educational – to admit the young migrants, but Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds told reporters that about […]

THE Bishop Anstey/Trinity College East (BATCE) schools will continue to operate as they are, said the Bishop Anstey Association (BAA) in a brief staff update dated August 7. However, governmental remarks suggest the schools’ situation remains unresolved. Staff, pupils and parents had been under much angst over recent negotiations with the Ministry of Education to […]

INDEPENDENT Senator Hazel Thompson-Ahye will convene a regional conference on the rights of children on November 13-15 at the Hilton Trinidad. Held by the International Society of Family Law (ISFL), the conference theme is: The Convention on the Rights of the Child at 35 years: The promise kept or a dream deferred? Thompson-Ahye, vice- president […]

Dr Emanuel Hosein, former health minister (1987-1991), has been remembered for his courage in his personal and political life, particularly during the 1990 attempted coup, by two former Cabinet colleagues. Hosein, 75, died on Monday, after an illness. The Parliament website said he was the ULF opposition MP for Naparima (1981-1986) and then the NAR […]