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- 23 December, 2024
A KANGALOO REPUBLIC
MURDERS and other bloody criminal acts are becoming even more common and grisly, with an escalation in Haitian-style executions.
RULE OF LAW BAD IN T&T, REPORT SAYS
FOUR out of five people in Trinidad and Tobago say that top government officials attack or attempt to discredit the media and civic bodies that criticise them.
A POLICE TICKET FOR AN UNSECURED BUCKET
IN a country with one of the world’s highest crime rates, per capita, is it good policing to ticket a farmer for an unsecured bucket in the tray of his agricultural vehicle?
HOLLOW AWARDS IN A TROUBLED LAND
THE citation by Howard University with respect to the honorary doctorate to Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is remarkable.
Dr. Rowley is being honoured by the prestigious institution for “building a better society for us all.”
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AND A NATION ON THE RUN
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is cold and insensitive while citizens tremble in fear as armed criminals stalk the land, murdering, raping, and plundering at will, confident that they would evade the law.
SELVON CELEBRATED ON 100TH BIRTHDAY
LONG before ethnic politics struck Trinidad and Tobago, author Samuel Selvon promoted the ideals of shared communities.
The T&T-born author captured the essence of community life in a colonial era when the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway was being constructed.
IT’S OFFICIAL: A SAD AND CORRUPT LAND
TWO new studies by prestigious international agencies give sharp insights into the dark state of Trinidad and Tobago.
T&T FAILS TO MAKE TOP 137 HAPPY COUNTRIES
VIOLENCE-RIDDLED Trinidad and Tobago is not among the top 137 countries when it comes to happiness.
PASSING OF A MEDIA MENTOR
THERE was babble among colleagues in the mid-1970s about Express news editor Jerome Tang Lee. Tang Lee had arrived unusually late for work one Saturday, according to the chitchat, blaming traffic congestion.
PIARCO NOT IN WORLD’S TOP 100 AIRPORTS
The same agency, Skytrax, which named Piarco as the Caribbean’s best, did not include the Trinidad and Tobago airport among the globe’s leading 100 for 2023.
