Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

YOUTH Development and National Service Minister Foster Cummings and UNC Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial-Ramdial will face off in the courtroom in July 2025. Three days in July have been set aside for Cummings’ defamation claim against the senator and a local media house. They are from July 21 to 23. Justice Nadia Kangaloo set the trial […]

MANY issues might decide the next general election. Tobago autonomy is one of them. Farley Augustine’s shift in tone as it relates to two pending bills on this matter is a strong sign that his party senses both peril and opportunity. In a political landscape characterised by deep divides and slender majorities, the two Tobago […]

AFTER Donald Trump’s win, late-night hosts and the internet wasted no time jumping on Kamala Harris’s Obamaesque (albeit uninspired) campaign slogan “We’re not going back.” In a bizarre mashup of horrified hilarity, they trilled separately in unison, “We ARE going back!” Pollsters, pundits, bookmakers, chat-show parrots – many were stunned into silence as the comeback […]

Dr Asha Pemberton [email protected] PROBLEMATIC technology use is one of a few terms used to refer to a state of preoccupation, loss of control or intense withdrawal experiences related to internet use, social media gaming, and/or similar technology. Implicit in the condition is an overall negative impact on daily functioning. Its prevalence appears to be […]

THE EDITOR: Letting the TT dollar free-float is being bandied about by some economists. This is a slippery slope with lots of empirical evidence to suggest it will not improve our situation, but only go towards higher inflation (look at Venezuela, Ecuador, Zimbabwe and Argentina, which have adopted the US dollar, or in the case […]

THE EDITOR: John Acton (1834-1902)’s famous quote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” serves as a stark reminder of the risks of unchecked authority. Prime Minister Rowley has drawn growing criticism for his increasingly harsh and at times derogatory language – a significant shift from the more respectful tone he maintained as […]