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Crime Eating Within

Indications that the battle against Crime may be far more effectively fought from deep within the heart, were presented recently with the victory by María Corina Machado, an opposition candidate who challenged Venezuela’s president in local elections here. This has led, according to  one observer,  to “cautious optimism among Venezuelans and international observers about the …

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Christine’s Disappointing Not-So- Pristine Family Silk Appointments

She came on a wave of strong public acclaim which transcended her previous political connections with the People’s National Movement (PNM), but all of this good will was dashed out the window when newly elected President Christine Kangaloo used her high office to facilitate the dispensation of Silk to her husband and her brother. ‘What …

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Do as I Taught you in School and Survive to Pay for it as an Abused Adult Later

The problem of violence in schools in the early 1970s was more a matter of how much the teacher could beat male and female students who had no recourse for mercy from parents who usually approved or even encouraged the teacher. As a young student-teacher in those days, I – who had grown up with …

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When the Girls Start Kicking Up, It’s Time to Take Serious Note

As disturbing images of young girls fighting in the schools of Trinidad and Tobago, continue to regale the media, officials are understandably very disturbed. “Imagine students of different schools, in competition for which school could generate the most fights! Sadly, this is the unfortunate result of our collective poor socialization of our youth.”, observed National …

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Why the Old Universal Queen’s Embarrassed at Being Caught Entangled With her Middle-Aged Musical Agriculturist

Although it’s commonly accepted in Sweet T+T that Carnival allows license for anyone to leggo, dingolay and wine dong to de ground, a number of our more conservative citizens were left dumbfounded at the recent antics of one of this  country’s world-acclaimed beauty monarchs whose ancient celebrity status  impinged on her constitutional right to run …

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Trying to Break out from the Hurricane of the Mind in Hard Steel Pan Notes Where Limited Options Traumatize our Innocent Youths

The Army Youth Band had just completed its superb performance in the Finals of the Youth Panorama Competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah  on  Saturday night (January 14) when the commentator  described their presence as hard. And while the observation was in reference to the band leader’s response to the allegedly stealthy insertion of the …

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The Forgotten Capital City Service Warriors

The shooting of the gardener at the Haleland Park home of Port of Spain Mayor Joel Martinez  on Wednesday January 5, reminds us of the awesome responsibility held by our local government representatives and the many unknown hazards they face in serving their burgesses. Despite assurances given by Acting Police Commissioner Erla Christopher that Worship …

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