The crossword puzzle

Mark my words. The alleged Section 34 email document could be the end of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and not of the Government as he intended. Too many things do not add up; too many contradictions. The first question is why Dr Keith Rowley took the unauthenticated document...
Posted On 21 Jun 2013
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Rowley should leave his back door closed

Three years after moving into the office of the leader of the opposition Keith Rowley discovered there was a ‘secret’ back door. And on Monday he told reporters “unknown persons” passed through the door and removed documents from his desk in September last...
Posted On 11 Jun 2013
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Manning should be the last person to talk about corruption and nepotism

Patrick Manning doesn’t have a voice in Parliament these days because he remains on medical leave following his stroke 18 months ago. However, he is using his online space on Facebook – or someone is doing it for him – to malign the present government. A posting...
Posted On 11 Jun 2013
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Diplomacy is an evolving art

by Ambassador Rodney Charles, In the front page of today’s (June 5 2013) New York Times it states that last week, President Xi Jinping met with President Obama’s national security adviser in China to discuss his upcoming visit to the US. The meeting did not involve diplomatic...
Posted On 06 Jun 2013
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Rowley’s late invitation is no excuse to snub the President of The People’s Republic of China

Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said in a media release Wednesday he did not blank the Chinese president during last week’s state visit. Rowley was absent from all state functions and has been criticised by the government for that. However in the release Rowley explained...
Posted On 05 Jun 2013
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Scarred images

By Reginald Dumas Visits by Xi Jinping and Joe Biden notwithstanding, Trinidad and Tobago hasn’t in recent weeks been getting the best regional and international coverage it could. On aviation matters, for instance, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines...
Posted On 03 Jun 2013
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Latest on crime front: PNM vs police

Proving things could always get worse, the Police Service, having steadily lost public confidence, now seems set on a path toward alienation of the People’s National Movement (PNM) opposition. Or at least of its leadership. 
Posted On 02 Jun 2013
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We seem to be descending to the nature of the beast

A newspaper report on Sunday about the verbal abuse of Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson and his wife by shoppers at a supermarket is a sad reflection on the nature of our society. The report said Richardson was shopping at the grocery with his wife on Friday when some...
Posted On 02 Jun 2013
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Is Trinidad the Capital of the Caribbean?

By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor On Tuesday, United States Vice President Joe Biden met with CARICOM leaders in Port of Spain as part of a regional tour with scheduled stops in Colombia and Brazil.
Posted On 31 May 2013
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Dr No

by ANDRE BAGOO Sunday, May 26 2013. ONE OF THE basic principles of fairness is that a person who is accused of wrongdoing should have the last say before a final determination is made on the matter. For this reason, an accused person in a court of law is the last to speak. If...
Posted On 26 May 2013
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