- 1 April, 2025
PESTICIDES IN ONE-THIRD OF T&T’S SUICIDES
PESTICIDES are used in at least one-third of suicides in Trinidad and Tobago, a new Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) report has revealed. Pesticides are also
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.
ENERGY SECTOR WORKFORCE IN SHARP DECLINE
THE number of workers in Trinidad and Tobago’s energy sector is shrinking. From 19,800 employees in the last quarter of 2015, there are now 6,900, according to the most recent Labour Force Survey Bulletin of the Central Statistical Office (CSO).
WE STILL CAN’T GO ON THIS WAY, EXPLAINER
“LORRAINE” is the immortal anthem of lonely heart Trinis abroad during Carnival. But Explainer was also in the last batch of strident calypsonians roused by social consciousness to crusade for the common man and hold the authorities to account.
COPS ONLY BAD WITH TRAFFIC TICKETS
A FEW months ago, a bulky police officer stepped into my path as I drove off Churchill-Roosevelt Highway between St. Augustine Girls’ High School and