Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THE EDITOR: National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has said the nation is experiencing “a severe level of crime.” The minister is, of course, correct, and he must be commended for having the courage to finally admit this alarming state of affairs. I write to offer the view that runaway crime in TT is the consequence […]

THE EDITOR: Guyana president Dr Irfaan Ali on September 5 announced that Caricom had put the dismal performance of Caribbean students in mathematics on its agenda. However, the measures that any country can take to improve its maths scores are limited by Caribbean students’ IQs. In 2024, only 36 per cent of students writing CSEC […]

THE Milford Road Esplanade Ltd (MRE) has issued a pre-action protocol letter to its tenant Ian Seon. On September 9, during a Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) news conference outside his booth at the esplanade in Scarborough, Seon acknowledged his rent was in arrears, but claimed he had paid half of what he owed. According to […]

PRESIDENT Christine Kangaloo has announced the prorogation of the current parliamentary term for the opening of the new term. The President did this through legal notices 163 and 164, issued on September 9. The House of Representatives and the Senate held separate sittings at the Red House on September 9, the final day of the […]

TOBAGO’S Rachel Questelles won the Miss La Reine Rive title on Saturday in the Prime Minister’s Best Village Trophy Competition, Le Gran Z’Affaire, held at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), Frederick Street, Port of Spain. Questelles, 26, represented the Encore Dance Theatre which entered the La Reine Rive competition for the first […]

ST VINCENT and the Grenadines’ soca star Skinny Fabulous won four awards at the Caribbean Music Awards at Kings’ Theatre, Brooklyn, New York. He took the most awards of the night, including Male Soca Artiste of the Year. “Any category that a man like Machel Montano falls in, you never expect that you would be […]

CRIME is complex. As a result, there is a lot of disagreement over what is required to combat it. What we do not need for sure, however, is inflammatory rhetoric – unsupported by evidence – suggesting one group should be singled out for policing over others. Effectively, this is what we got last week from […]

AS TEACHERS, students and parents settle into the routine of a new academic year with all its associated anxiety and anticipation, those closely following the developments will realise that the education sector is severely underfunded. Despite the political optics and public relations attempts to deflect attention from the blatant neglect of the education system, it […]

ON September 9, two days before three people, including two officials from state-owned Paria Fuel Trading Company, are to reappear in court in connection with the 2022 Paria diving tragedy, several people gathered in Pointe-a-Pierre to remind the public about the upcoming case. Christopher Jackman, the president of the Point-a-Pierre branch of the Oilfields Workers’ […]

FIVE opposition MPs have said they were unfazed over being put to sit separately from other UNC MPs in the House of Representatives, and promised to uphold “UNC principles.” These were Tabaquite MP Anita Haynes-Alleyne, Naparima MP Rodney Charles, Mayaro MP Rushton Paray, Cumuto/Manzanilla MP Dr Rai Ragbir, and Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally. In […]