- 1 April, 2025
PASSING OF A CARIBBEAN STORYTELLER
FOR a generation, Dave Martins portrayed Caribbean society like few others.
Martins was a regionalist, a storyteller, and a musical commentator on our heritage and identity.
$142,000 A YEAR FOR UWI DEGREE
THE St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies is imposing a staggering $142,200 a year tuition fee for a bachelor’s degree.
A “full fee-paying” cohort of students will be enrolled for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) degree in September.
BMBS is a five-year course of study at the Faculty of Medical Sciences.
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.
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.
T&T UNIVERSITIES SHUT OUT OF WORLD’S TOP
Neither the University of the West Indies nor the University of Trinidad and Tobago has made it to the comprehensive 2023 QS World University Rankings.
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.”
HOW GOVT COULD MAKE CHILDREN VACCINE MANDATORY
THE Government simply has to tinker with the schedule of a 1973 law in order to make it mandatory that school-aged children take a Covid-19 vaccine.
This could be done by the Minister of Health.
The matter does not require the approval of Parliament.
The law is the Public Health (Nursery Schools and Primary Schools Immunisation Act.
UNIONS’ DIFFERENT STANCE ON SCHOOLS’ REOPENING
TTUTA has been insisting on strict guidelines for in-person studies.
BUT wants face-to-face teaching.
After a standoff, the T&T body held talks with the Ministry of Education, following which there was consensus on guidelines for the reopening of classes.
