Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
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BitDepth#1487 Mark Lyndersay ALL THE buzz in social media has been about the “x-odus” from the platform formerly known as Twitter in the wake of the US presidential election and the role that its owner, Elon Musk, visibly played during the campaign. Musk didn’t even bother trying to hide his gaming of the X algorithms […]
Taureef Mohammed AFTER THEIR patients cross a certain age, doctors stop thinking. I carry my 94-year-old mother the other day by a specialist, a kidney specialist. Everything I ask the doctor, the doctor tell me is age. I wanted to ask the doctor: how it is that my father is the same age as my […]
UWI political scientist Dr Bishnu Ragoonath says the recommendations in the Salaries Review Commission’s (SRC)120th report to give huge increases to several public officials, could become an issue in the next general election. In an interview on November 30, Ragoonath hinted that it may have an influence on the fortunes of different political parties in […]
Police are looking for a teenage girl from St Jude’s Home for Girls who ran away after a group outing to the cinema. The 17-year-old girl went to the Imax Cinema on November 30 with a group of girls and staff members from the St Jude’s Home. When the movie was finished, the group was […]
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) political leader Mickela Panday says the UNC missed an opportunity to advance campaign finance reform while in government from 2010-2015. She called upon the UNC to “stand in solidarity with us in demanding urgent campaign finance reform before the 2025 general election.” That election is constitutionally due by next August but the […]
Whenever I drive past the new airport terminal in Crown Point, the largely glass edifice looks bigger than it did the day before. Being an advocate for animals, and often viewing or hearing the surrounding world through their eyes or ears, I wonder about the fatal impact the expansive glass frontage will have on birds. […]
Die-hard soca fans are upset about a planned concert featuring Jamaican dancehall singer Vybz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) on Carnival Friday in 2025. Protesting soca artiste Kevon “Yankey Boy” Heath argues that the event is taking bread out of the mouths of soca and calypso performers at the peak of their earning ability. But this isn’t […]
THE world can end Aids – if everyone’s rights are protected. With human rights at the centre, with communities in the lead, the world can end Aids as a public health threat by 2030. The substantial progress that has been made in the HIV response is directly linked to progress in protecting human rights. In […]
I walked into my brother’s New York apartment after midnight. It was deliciously warm, although nobody had been staying in it for many weeks. The temperature outside was below seven degrees Celsius. I had been silently dreading entering an icebox, which is what would have greeted me if it were London or most places in […]
On November 23, through a TV broadcast, I heard Nizam Mohammed, a member of the Constitution Advisory Committee and former speaker, strongly objecting to the “recolonising” of the society by “the number of elitist, foreign, voluntary organisations across the country.” We should no longer be copycats, he asserted. More passionately, he advocated constitution reform with […]