“[…] Today, when we look at this cherished town that can boast of being the country’s only Royal Chartered Borough—a status granted by Queen Victoria in 1888—we see only a battered and bruised community which has lost all the facilities that made it so special and is now reduced to …
Read More »Dear Editor: ‘For 1950s’ audiences in T&T, seeing Sidney Poitier on screen […] was a revelation’
“[…] For 1950s’ audiences in Trinidad and Tobago, seeing Sidney Poitier on screen in significant roles was a revelation. This was no longer Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen of Gone with the Wind, Stepin’ Fetchit of so many stereotyped portrayals of the black buffoon or the walk-on appearances by black …
Read More »McWatt and ‘Reds’: Haynes, Sarwan inclusion a boost, but fitness issues, coaching doubts linger
“[…] The Sir Desmond Haynes-led panel should, as its very first order of business, announce the implementation of a new selection-related fitness policy. “Our suggested policy would require all CWI contracted players as well as those others who are in contention for immediate selection on West Indies teams to be …
Read More »NJAC: Govt must overhaul health system, consult labour workers and implement hazard allowance
“[…] NJAC calls on the Government to urgently implement […] a special hazard allowance or similar benefit […] for all frontline workers throughout the health sector. “NJAC notes with interest, that there is already a precedent for this existing throughout the Caribbean and other parts of the world…” The following …
Read More »McWatt and ‘Reds’: WI cricket history and coaches in schools, a CPL rejig and other 2022 recommendations
“[…] CWI must request the governments of its member countries to mandate, by September 2022, the addition of West Indies cricket history to the curriculum of all primary and secondary schools within the region. “CWI should similarly ask governments to also mandate the addition of a paid cricket coach to …
Read More »Baldeosingh: Education system deprives and abuses black children
“[…] The pattern here is undeniable: the schools with the highest Excelling to Academic Watch ratio are located in Caroni and Victoria, while the obverse ratio is found in the Port-of-Spain and South Eastern areas. The other six areas have more or less equal ratios of good to bad schools. …
Read More »Dear Editor: Why must oil-rich T&T still depend on Cuba for nurses? And imagine if Sea Lots had boat party?
“[…] We have been bringing health personnel from Cuba for almost two decades. Would that money have not been better invested in training and remunerating our own? “One imagines the human body in Cuba is essentially the same as ours. They have built an exemplary health system under an economic …
Read More »Kangalee: The AG is out of his depth and betraying his ignorance of industrial relations
“[…] In Faris Al-Rawi’s upside-down world, a worker is sent home by an employer in an effort to coerce the worker into accepting the employer’s terms and conditions; and if the worker does not accept, she is deemed to have abandoned the job or been dismissed. “In actual practice, if …
Read More »Lewis: T&T ‘projected’ their fears on their star athletes—but they did not listen
“[…] Unlike many of their fellow citizens who disrobed and took off the robe of the red white and black when the going got tough; they, our athletes who represented Team TTO, did not do that. And what they showed was the ability to bounce back. “[…] Face our fears …
Read More »Dear Editor: UNC’s Christmas Day coffin stunt at Deyalsingh’s home shows there’s no line Kamla won’t cross
“[…] The recent ‘danse macabre’ of a coffin being positioned outside the house of my Cabinet colleague, the Honourable Terrance Deyalsingh, on Christmas Day is evidence enough that the Leader of the Opposition is prepared to cross all lines of sanity and sobriety in her quest for political relevance. “Mrs …
Read More »Persad-Bissessar: Al-Rawi should try ‘mandatory truth-telling’ over Boxing Day boat party
“[…] Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi allegedly advised the son of Minister Paula Gopee Scoon, Adrian Scoon, on a way to bypass Covid-19 regulations so as to throw a fete on a boat by declaring it to be a ‘floating restaurant’. “[…] The fact that our Covid-19 infection and death rates continue …
Read More »Great opportunity, but many minefields—tips for T&T nurses migrating to UK
“[…] For the winters, your accommodation costs should budget to cover heating and electricity. The best-case scenario is finding accommodation at a fixed cost provided by your employer. “[…] Never raise your voice loudly to appear to be shouting at anyone in the workplace. Do not wave your hands/arms around …
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