Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THE UNC is expected to start its general-election preparations as soon as the completion of next week’s parliamentary budget debate, a UNC official told Newsday on October 18. The source said, “The debate starts on Monday in the Senate. I expect as soon as this debate is finished, we we go into screening.” The question […]

THE Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) will lead a trade mission to St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) from October 21-25. The mission will include representatives from 22 companies from various sectors and of various sizes, including micro-enterprises. A press release from the TTMA said the mission aims to expand TT’s exports into Eastern […]

MINISTER of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon has held a meeting with the Greek Ambassador at her ministry in Port of Spain. An October 16 release from the ministry said Gopee-Scoon had met with Ambasssador Efthymios Efthymiades. The release said this was the ambassador’s first official meeting since he presented his credentials to President Christine […]

FORMER commissioner of police (CoP) Gary Griffith says an advisory by CoP Erla Harewood-Christopher which instructs police officers to return their tactical uniforms is a backward step. Griffith, leader of the National Transformation Alliance (NTA), said this move does not address the problem of people using clothing which allows them to impersonate police officers. Harewood-Christopher’s […]

THE EDITOR: I write to highlight a severe problem at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mount Hope. Presently, there are patients of the heart, kidney and other clinics who have not seen a doctor for at least three years or so. What is happening at the complex is that every six months the patient […]

THE EDITOR: There seems to be no serious response to bullying in schools from either Prime Minister Rowley or his Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, as evidenced by their statements on bullying and gang warfare in schools. It seems that statements coming from the political leaders suggest they just do not care, and that we […]

Paolo Kernahan IMAGINE waking up every morning oppressed with dread at the thought of facing your tormentors in school. For reasons you can’t understand, they make it their life’s mission (life so far, at any rate) to make yours a living hell. That’s what it must have been like for Jayden Lalchan for several years. […]

THE EDITOR: If you call on us to trust, then verify we must! I am calling on Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher to provide clear guidance to citizens on how they should react when confronted by members of the TTPS, either real or fake. Should people immediately stop if a police vehicle attempts to force […]

THE EDITOR: “Zeitgeist” – the spirit of the age. Is our zeitgeist wickedness? There is a toxic lust for violence strangling our communities and poisoning the veins of our youths. Have we forgotten the tenets of our watchwords, discipline, tolerance and production, with discipline being primary? Why is it so exciting to be “Trinibad?” If […]

THE EDITOR: The nation awaits news on the latest case of domestic violence and if more lives were lost. Domestic violence has taken the form of an octopus which has extended its tentacles to embrace our children who have already been traumatised and mentally destabilised in their homes and classrooms. We are dealing with perpetrators […]