By Geisha Kowlessar May 05, 2016 – guardian.co.tt Amid increased calls to legalise abortions which have been sanctioned by former health minister Dr Fuad Khan and advisory director of the Family Planning Association Dr Jacqueline Sharpe, Roman Catholic priest Father Clyde Harvey, however, said T&T must build a society where life was respected even in … Continue reading Call for new look at abortion laws
Newsday Editorial Wednesday, May 4 2016 – newsday.co.tt RONALD RAMDASS, 50, had been here before. As he stood in the dock of the San Fernando Magistrates Court, he weighed his legal options. The magistrate, Brahmanand Dubay, read out the charge: possession of marijuana. It was a charge with which Ramdass was all too familiar. According … Continue reading Deal with it, Dr Rowley
By Raffique Shah April 29, 2016 I had planned not to address crime in my columns, to waste valuable newspaper space on an issue that, while it grows grimmer by the day, is seemingly intractable. When last I tackled it, I admitted to have become inured to the barbarism into which the nation has descended. … Continue reading All ah we dead
By Azard Ali April 18, 2016 – newsday.co.tt A CENTRAL Trinidad doctor is being investigated by police for performing an abortion on a 16-year-old girl. Detectives from the Chaguanas CID said the doctor is facing imminent arrest as Section 56 of the Offences Against the Persons Act, states a person is guilty of an indictable … Continue reading Doctor under investigation for abortion
Deyalsingh’s tough message after austere mid-term budget By Adrian Boodan Sunday, April 10, 2016 – guardian.co.tt It’s time that nationals grow up and take some responsibility for T&T, says Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh. Deyalsingh was at the time fielding questions from the media when he attended a health and fitness fair hosted by the Couva … Continue reading Grow up, take responsibility
Not worthy of public office By Rhondor Dowlat April 01, 2016 – guardian.co.tt Former prime minister of T&T Patrick Manning believes that politicians who are guilty of hiring relatives at their respective constituency offices are not worthy of public office. Manning made a statement via his Facebook page on Wednesday night. He disclosed that in … Continue reading Manning knocks MPs hiring relatives
Express Editorial March 20, 2016, 9:49 pm AST – trinidadexpress.com IT is disingenuous for Members of Parliament to be offering to refund salaries paid to relatives in breach of parliamentary rules, to quibble over definitions of employment, to suggest that new rules should not affect old behaviour or to dismiss them as mere guidelines. The … Continue reading Getting serious with errant MPs
By Raffique Shah March 11, 2016 I am relieved to learn that the Cabinet “retreat” in Tobago last weekend did not have as a main item on its agenda achievements of the not-so-new Government during its first six months in office. If it did, I would have screamed bloody murder, not to add rape of … Continue reading Rating Rowley’s Government
By Nalinee Seelal March 03, 2016 – newsday.co.tt ACTING Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams has called on divisional heads to deal with the rising incidence of murders which up to press time yesterday, stood at 86 so far for the year. The top cop’s call to his divisional commanders came after he and executive … Continue reading DEAL WITH MURDERS
By Corey Gilkes February 29, 2016 Soooo There was a major tragedy averted in a school And another one on St John Road, St Augustine And the talk came round once again about violence in schools