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- 19 September, 2024
SCHOOL REOPENING CHAOS LOOMS
RAMPANT chaos is expected at several schools from the lack of repairs and maintenance as the new academic year begins.Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly is blaming a shortage of money for the looming crisis, as she has decided to “take in front,” as the Express newspaper termed it.
SAD SAGA OF MOMS WHO STEAL SCHOOLBOOKS
THE Government’s failure to deliver on a budget promise has permitted an embarrassing new social trend.
In his 2023-204 budget, Finance Minister Colm Imbert pledged to standardise textbooks.
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.”
SCHOLARSHIPS A VICTORY FOR SAT
“Education should uplift human dignity,” Maharaj used to say, and stressed that denominational schools are “pillars of the education system.”
BUYERS’ REMORSE
The employees of the protective services are grumbling that the token salary increases are a huge disincentive, especially since they are each working in difficult circumstances.
Dangerous transfer of PS
THE arbitrary transfer of Kurt Meyer as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education is another graphic example of the vindictiveness and high-handedess of successive PNM administrations.
Abandoned $600 m south UWI campus…
THOUSANDS of southerners travel to St. Augustine or environs each Sunday evening, with packaged food to be stored in fridges and to last them the week.
CALL FOR PROBE INTO $B TAMANA CAMPUS
Phillip L. Robinson wants the probe to include the conduct of UTT’s Board of Governors, China Jiangsu International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group Ltd., and former employees and consultants at the Tamana In-Tech Campus.
IS UWI’S CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE SPREADING CHINESE PROPAGANDA?
IS the 10-year-old Confucius Institute in Trinidad and Tobago spreading Chinese propaganda?
Is the institute, which is based at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies, promoting Chinese soft power and the communist party line?
