- 11 June, 2025
WORSE THAN HAITI!
TRINIDAD and Tobago’s homicide rate, “one of the world’s highest, is now 45 per 100,000” (Source: Trinidad Express editorial).
Haiti’s homicide rate in 2023 was 41 people per 100,000 (Source: United Nations).
EDUCATION BOSSES REJECT ADVICE ON VIOLENT LYRICS
LONG before Trinibad’s violent lyrics, a team of experts made recommendations to deal with the damaging impact of local culture.
There may not have been a need for Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to be concerned about aggressive musical lines if the authorities had implemented proposals from the 10-year-old study.
T&T STILL ON EU TAX BLACKLIST
TRINIDAD and Tobago is now one of only 12 countries in the world on the European Union’s tax blacklist.
The EU has just removed The Bahamas, Belize, Turks and Caicos Islands and Seychelles from its dreaded blacklist.
But T&T is still there, with other countries that, according to the EU, are “not cooperative on tax matters.”
ROWLEY’S ONE-MONTH VACATION
WITH Trinidad and Tobago under a crime siege, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has quietly taken a one-week vacation in Guyana.
When Rowley returns, he will go on a 10-day holiday.
CUDJOE’S SOLO CRIES ON CRIME
PROFESSOR Selwyn Cudjoe’s major contribution to the discussion on crime is not the package of proposals he delivered.
Frankly, we have heard the suggestions before, although they remain critical and urgent in the face of the unceasing crime epidemic.
A PAIR OF PARIAS
IN one part of the country, still-grieving relatives and conscientious nationals rallied to commemorate the second anniversary of the dreadful deaths of four Paria divers.
GLOBAL OIL SPILL BLOWS FOR ROWLEY
THE Keith Rowley Government is getting blows in the international media over its handling of the mystery Tobago oil spill, one of the worst in global history.
GUYANA FACES MILITARY ACTION FROM VENEZUELA
UNITED States and British authorities have jumped into action after a new massing of Venezuelan military power near the disputed border with Guyana.
‘WHY NO CALYPSO ON PARIA?’
WHILE prominent calypsonians dodged the issue of the deaths of four Paria divers, a music teacher has poured her heart into the scandal.