Dr. Rowley Lack of Priority

I read with great interest the announcement that the United States Vice President Joe Biden will visit Trinidad at the end of the month to hold talks with the Prime Minister on collaborating with the US on a number of areas.
Posted On 10 May 2013
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Negatives, morning, noon and night

THE EDITOR: The PNM is truly amazing! I hope they win the next general election and make Faris Al-Rawi the Minister of Everything, since he can’t help talking foolishness as soon as he wakes up.
Posted On 09 May 2013
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Prayers for SEA students

THE EDITOR: Please permit me the opportunity to extend best wishes to the 18,039 students who will write the Language Arts and Mathematics components of the SEA exam today. My niece will be one of these students who will write the exam. As a nation, I would like us to...
Posted On 09 May 2013
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Health care change of heart

I have always maintained an ignorant view that whenever I became pregnant, I would never give birth in any public hospital in Trinidad and Tobago. The truth is regardless of whether we want to admit it or not, most women have shared this similar view. Can we really be blamed? One...
Posted On 09 May 2013
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Thanks PM for cellphone jammers

THE EDITOR: Seven years ago, against the advice of my family and friends, I made a decision to become a prisons officer. I would like the general public to know that the job is one that is very dangerous and thankless, especially for the junior officers.
Posted On 08 May 2013
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Udecott has regained public confidence

THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to the board, management and staff of the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (Udecott). As a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, I would like to express my gratitude for your hard work and dedication over the last few years.
Posted On 08 May 2013
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Ministry of Justice doing good work

THE EDITOR: Allow me the opportunity to express my pleasant surprise when I got your Sunday Newsday (dated April 14) and saw a supplement from the Ministry of Justice. I was heartened by the broad extent of the work I see that the Ministry and its agencies are doing to...
Posted On 08 May 2013
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Jack, bow out graciously

The verdict’s in: we love Jack Warner to death, or, we love to hate him. But are endearing qualities all that’s needed for holders of political office? What about morality in public life? A whirlwind of unmitigated allegations of corruption surrounds Mr Warner and other FIFA...
Posted On 03 May 2013
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Dissatisfied with DPP’s take on Guanapo church matter

Well, I tell you! I have read the DPP’s “report” issued in response to the Prime Minister’s request for an inquiry into the building of the church at the Heights of Guanapo and all I can say is that we can resign ourselves to the increasing impunity and bravado on the part of...
Posted On 27 Apr 2013
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Why the fear?

THE EDITOR: What is the fear that the independent senators possess concerning 300 soldiers acting as police officers for a period of two years? If they were distrustful of the former Minister of National Security, he is no longer there. What is the problem? 
Posted On 25 Apr 2013
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