ALJGSB director: Businesses not competitive enough
The fact that T&T is in a recession should not come as a surprise says Professor Miguel Carrillo, executive director, Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business (ALJGSB).“It is part of the...
View ArticleT&T at world’s largest tourism fair
Tourism Minister Shamfa Cudjoe is leading a T&T delegation at the International Tourism Exchange Trade Fair in Berlin (ITB), Germany. The largest and most important platform anywhere in the world...
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When chess amused upper class
The sport of chess in T&T has an interesting history, dating back by almost a century, but sadly enough the story has never been told. Even worse, the chances of it ever being told are well nigh...
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T&T beach vballers off to Guatemala
Top T&T men and women beach volleyball pairings, Daneil Williams and Fabien Whitfield, Ayana Dyette and Malika Davidson will serve off their 2016 Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit campaign when they...
View ArticleThe cutting edge of accreditation
Programme accreditation is critical to successful implementation of programmes offered by universities around the world. It is proof that an individual or academic institution meets required standards...
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Raj and Sealy making a status claim
A total of 54 athletes (29 men and 25 women) have been nominated as hopefuls by their respective sporting association to contest the 2015 First Citizens Sports Foundation Sportsman and Sportswoman of...
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Golden opportunity for Lewis says Bassarath
The T&T Cricket Board (T&TCB) expects Evin Lewis to grasp the opportunity given to him and establish himself as a top class batsman in the shortest form of the game at the ICC World T20...
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Nestle sweetens Milo Games with $.1m
This year’s 29th edition of the Milo Games which comes off at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, next Tuesday, will benefit from a sponsorship of $100,000 from—Nestle T&T Limited.Making the...
View ArticleRape and destruction of ‘Jewel of Toco’
I was totally shocked out of my senses last Saturday, as I entered Salybia Beach, Toco. My first reaction in astonishment was “Oh my God!” I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe what greeted my eyes. My...
View ArticleBring the evidence!
Many Trinis with long memories will recall the 1956 advent of the PNM under Dr Eric Williams who burst onto the political scene promising morality in public affairs. It is hardly disputed today that...
View ArticlePolice service needs restructuring
As I read the daily papers, something seems to remain constant with almost every report on a serious crime. The police had failed to act on information/reports given to them prior to the event.To me,...
View ArticleCan’t buy back national pride
As we are to understand the issue surrounding the sale of the Order of Trinidad and Tobago (ORTT) medal which was conveyed posthumously upon Mr Adrian Cola Rienzi, is that currently the item is in the...
View ArticleLearning to read and write most important
A newspaper article yesterday on the violence at Chaguanas North Secondary School, “Rehab for 20 ‘deviant’ pupils” states: “Minister in the Ministry of Education Dr Lovell Francis said that Guidance...
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Bigford interprets local songs
Born and raised in the rural south-western community of La Brea, Vaughnette Bigford still resides there, a five-minute drive from where she was born. “I am a born and bred country girl with no desire...
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Martyrdom—an urban legend?
Kevin BaldeosinghEvery religious group in this country claims to be persecuted. It started with the Shouter Baptists, was taken up by Hindus, and now continues with Muslims. But this complaint is also...
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Kidney transplant patients celebrated
“From yuh wake up this morning, yuh is a winner.” The words from the 2016 Soca Monarch winning song, Cheers for Life, by soca sensation, Voice, could not have been truer as ten successful kidney...
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Tackling literacy in T&T
Part 1A quick Google search of ‘literacy stats in Trinidad and Tobago’ will leave you pleasantly surprised, but also possibly confused about the need for an organisation like Alta. According to Unesco...
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RBC helps students to shoot ahead with Arrow
A renewed passion for learning has been infused into 20 students from St Phillip’s Government Primary School, Old St Joseph Road, Laventille, who celebrated their successful completion of the Arrow...
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ANSA McAL brings Rienzi medal home
The ANSA McAL Group is bringing trade union leader Adrian Cola Rienzi’s Order of the Republic of T&T (ORTT) medal back home, after its bid on the e-commerce website, eBay, was accepted...
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Foreign call alerts of rape in caregiver’s home
In the midst of a police investigation into the rape of a 29-year-old autistic woman, her saviour, who rescued her from a home where she was attacked, is also calling for her caregiver to be jailed for...
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