Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

TWO policemen in the North Eastern Division were arrested on November 23. A senior police officer confirmed the arrests to Newsday on November 24. However, he could not confirm what they were arrested for and if the arrests took place while they were on duty. Investigations are ongoing. The post Two cops arrested in North […]

A lime between friends in Barrackpore turned bloody a few days ago when one chopped the other during an argument over alcohol. The 23-year-old victim went home to sleep after he was chopped. The attacker called the police and confessed. The 52-year-old perpetrator also handed over the cutlass he used before taking the police to […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua: A maiden Test century from Justin Greaves anchored a dominant second day for the West Indies in Antigua, as they piled up 450 for 9 before making inroads into Bangladesh’s batting at the close on day two of the first Test, on November 23, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. Greaves’ patient […]

DONALD TRUMP’S victory in the US presidential elections on November 5 and the doubts about the results of the Venezuelan elections on July 28 have Venezuelan immigrants in Trinidad and Tobago in a state of limbo about their future. The biggest doubts are about the possibility of returning home, going to a third country, or […]

It’s November. Exams are underway. Teachers are unhappy and for the second year running, the West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) is calling on the University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus to resolve salary negotiations. A year after teachers protested the pace of negotiations on campus, they were out and about again […]

The internal rumblings of the two main political parties, the PNM and the UNC, provide a welcome opportunity for members of both parties and the public to consider the extent to which political parties are really democratic or not and what needs to be done to heal possible breaches. The democratic nature and political integrity […]

Two of my friends have living wills that I know about. A living will is a written statement detailing the extent of medical treatment someone would like if no longer able to express their desires. Specifically, neither friend would like to be kept alive in a vegetative state or death delayed if it was inevitable […]

It is possible the answer is “metacognition.” It is possible the question is, “Why don’t we know how much we don’t know?” Not everything is about Trump, but, as the saying goes, if it fall in your garden… I could have written the entire column without mentioning that character (hard to use the word “person,” […]

One of TT’s three rugby teams was able to notch a win on day two of the 2024 Rugby Americas North Sevens tournament which continued at Larry Gomes Stadium in Arima on November 23. After surprising Mexico with a 12-5 victory on the first day, the men’s tier one team could not replicate their form […]

GENDER-BASED violence is the number one human rights abuse worldwide. In 2017, when the European Union (EU) invested approximately 500 million euros (US$530 million) and joined with the UN to initiate the global Spotlight Initiative, the world’s largest targeted and funded effort to end all forms of violence against women and girls, it was with […]