Nothing strange about making financial adjustments

Dear Editor: I spent the last few months in 2014 observing the declining price of oil. It reduced from over 100$ a barrel to just under 60$ to date. How significant is that to our economy? Do we simply consume what is being painted as a doom and gloom for our economy or do we try...
Posted On 06 Jan 2015
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Put country first

The Editor: We the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) should make a call on the country’s politicians to put the nation’s interest above their individual interests. One method for doing this can be demonstrated when politicians resolve their differences...
Posted On 06 Jan 2015
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Disappointed by highway

Dear Editor: I was appalled to read on the newspapers that the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the highway to Point Fortin will be completed by May 2016. 2016? Why so far? While I do understand that the engineering is very complex and will require a lot of time to do properly, we...
Posted On 06 Jan 2015
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Why tarnish a good gesture

The Editor: I have listened to all sorts of debate as to the Christmas greetings by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and I have realised that a lot of the times we end up in a situation where you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I’m a Christian, and the...
Posted On 06 Jan 2015
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Dr Rowley has plenty explaining to do

In his 2015 New Year’s message, Opposition Leader Keith Rowley quite rightly stresses the need for the electorate to make the right decision in this election year. Without a doubt we had all hoped that this Partnership Government could have avoided some of their missteps. Still,...
Posted On 04 Jan 2015
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PNM can learn much from PM

THE EDITOR: A NACTA poll conducted earlier this month once again had Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar ahead of the rest. The poll showed that the PM was considered a greater uniter of people than Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and I have to say I’m not the least bit...
Posted On 03 Jan 2015
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Thanks, PM, for your love, care

THE EDITOR: Open letter to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Eileen Freeman once wrote, “It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it.” I openly say thank you for your tokens of love this Christmas, from the billboards that made me...
Posted On 02 Jan 2015
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Thanks, PM, for temporary road

THE EDITOR: On behalf of the residents of Mayaro and environs I offer my heartfelt thanks to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for the new temporary Manzanilla-Mayaro Road. Over the recent weeks residents have had to use alternative routes that were very time-consuming and...
Posted On 30 Dec 2014
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PP deserves a second term

THE EDITOR: In 2010 when the PP Government came into power, the critics claimed it could not last six months. But it lasted four years and is set to finish its full five years in style with two new highways, one to Point Fortin and one through Caroni to Piarco. Every right...
Posted On 28 Dec 2014
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Thank You, Suruj

By: PROFESSOR RAMESH DEOSARAN Sunday, December 14 2014 Thank. A simple word, more spoken than practised, it carries vital civic and moral obligations. It simply means “to express gratitude.” (tautological, but so described in Concise Oxford). The official opening by Prime...
Posted On 14 Dec 2014
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