For many years I have described the low self-esteem plaguing many of our youngsters and its relationship to violent crime and anti-social behaviour. The now widespread fighting in schools is a related phenomenon. Much of my personal knowledge of the self-esteem crisis comes directly from dialogue with some youngsters 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 …
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