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Dear Editor: In the last year, we have seen many glaring examples of why our country is staring into a deep, dark abyss. We, as a nation, are trying to keep our heads above water, struggling against this morass due to our disrespectful behaviour. The highest offices in our land...

The Editor: The construction of the Point Fortin highway was first conceived by the Patrick Manning administration. In 2010, the multi-billion dollar highway began with the issue of land acquisition under the PNM. There is no doubt that such a project will benefit not only the...

THE EDITOR: Dr Wayne Kublalsingh apparently has the ability to defy what is commonly known as “the rule of threes”: three minutes without air, three hours in severe cold, three days without water, and three weeks without food. That he has managed to convince most of this nation...

Dear Editor: I admire the exuberance of youth. Once they identify a cause, they dive headstrong into their task, giving their all with enthusiasm. However, sometime their exuberance can be misguided. I believe this time it is. Project 40 has pledge their support for Dr. Wayne...

The Editor: I would like to thank the media for giving this space for letters so that the voiceless could have a voice. I have been very frustrated by the fact that Dr Kublalsingh can take it upon himself to fast against the Debe-to-Mon Desir section of the Sir Solomon Hochoy...

Last Wednesday night, the Attorney General and his wife were involved in a vehicular accident. Fortunately for them, they escaped relatively unscathed. One of his security detail suffered some injuries, but in whole the incident wasn’t disastrous. However, what ensued in the...

Dear Editor: My mother use to tell me, you must not play smart with foolishness! What wise words they have turned out to be as I have lived my life. These part couple of week we have seen significant foolishness being played out in front of our very eyes and people playing smart...

Dear Editor: On October 6, 2014, Lawrence Summers, the Charles W. Eliot Professor of Economics at Harvard and a former US Treasury secretary, wrote a column in the Financial Times commenting on the fiscal benefits of public spending. He expressed pleasant surprise at the about...

I am now reading that no appeal was ever filed by the HRM and Wayne Kublalsingh to the Privy Council. If this is true, then this is perhaps the lowest that Dr Kublalsingh and the HRM and its supporters  have gone; they have lost all respect and now owes the citizens, especially...

Dear Editor, It’s easy to make out public figures who are not too sure whether they’re coming or going: they would accept an invitation to give a speech and then use their microphone time to ramble on about matters completely outside their scope and that of their...