Eleven months after Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis announced that Marisa Dick would represent the two- island republic at the Rio Olympic Games, 21-year-old gymnast Thema Williams and her legal team have urged the body to be transparent about the process used to arrive at their …
Read More »Thema’s case is a matter of national importance! Judge sends TTGF to High Court
Thema Williams’ first legal bout with the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation (TTGF) and its current and past officials David Marquez, Akil Wattley, Ricardo Lue Shue and his wife Donna Lue Shue ended with a resounding victory this morning, as Justice Frank Seepersad decided that the 21-year-old gymnast had a …
Read More »We like it so? Relating cultural factors to underachievement
It has been a recurrent theme of these columns that there are many cultural factors militating against our country moving toward a better and fairer condition. Now I have solid company. Terrence Farrell, economist, attorney, author and commentator, has published another book. It is called: We like it so?—The Cultural …
Read More »Taking a long, hard look: Daly explains why courts can’t save us without better policing
I suppose one can admire the zeal with which the Attorney General, Mr Faris Al Rawi, pursues his causes in the Parliament. Likewise, members of the Opposition have made a number of valid points concerning legislation brought before the Parliament recently. It would of course be more palatable if both …
Read More »Our dilemma: Daly looks at the soft underbelly of Trinidad and Tobago society
Winston Churchill, the glowing imperialist, at the time when he was seeking to have Europe fortified against Nazi Germany, referred to Italy as the soft underbelly of Europe. What Churchill meant was this: However successfully Europe was fortified, it would be vulnerable to the attack through the soft underbelly of …
Read More »Daly: T&T Carnival is becoming the Greatest Pappyshow on Earth
The record breaking success of Full Extreme is thoroughly deserved. I will add to the boiling pot of opinions of why it struck such a deep chord. For me it is a restatement of the saying that laugh and cry live in the same yard. I am otherwise reluctant to …
Read More »Murder at MovieTowne: Why two T&T Prime Ministers got their responses very wrong
The recent murder in MovieTowne is the second to take place at that location. It has had several reverberations, which are as great as those that accompanied the first one, fourteen years ago. On both occasions our Prime Ministers made insensitive remarks in the aftermath of the murder. On the …
Read More »Williams doh business! Daly slams excuses by acting Police Commissioner
If there had been a power outage in Port of Spain two Fridays ago, the energy from 3Canal’s Carnival 2017 launch could have lighted up the city. Likewise, the energy of the crowds flocking to the panyards Tuesday last, which were the largest I have ever seen, could have lighted …
Read More »The negative progress of the Trini paradox; the price for mixing sheep and goat
Here is another test for the failed Acting Commissioner of Police, Stephen Williams and the rest of the failing police high command, who do not want their performance assessed by reference to “murders alone”—even though murders continue at more than one a day and are committed with almost complete impunity. …
Read More »The ‘Big Pappy Life’: Daly considers the perils of our Ultimate Rejects lifestyle
Trinidad and Tobago is plunging downward right back where we fell in the mid-eighties having gorged ourselves on the proceeds of the preceding oil boom. A second round of energy sector riches have once again, in the famous Michael Manley phrase, “passed through us like a dose of salts,” but …
Read More »Do your job! TTPS must follow the money to tackle crime
The recent rally entitled Side by Side We Stand was focused on the appalling annual murder rate, with particular reference to the murders of women and children. The stimulus for the rally was the murder of Shannon Banfield found dead in a Charlotte Street store. The appearance at the rally …
Read More »Thema vs TTGF: Gymnastics body makes about-turn and requests arbitration
Trinidad and Tobago gymnast Thema Williams’ civil suit against the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation (TTGF) as well as its former president David Marquez, first vice president Akil Wattley, second vice president Ricardo Lue Shue and his wife and assistant treasurer Donna Lue Shue opened today with its first case …
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