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It is with sadness that I learned of the passing of Dr Brinsley Samaroo, retired eminent professor of history at The UWI, a foremost pioneer and specialist on Indian Caribbean

THE EDITOR: Not for the first time I am calling on the relevant authorities to rename Oxford Street Kwame Ture Street. Ture should be celebrated as a national hero. Ture was banned from TT by then PM Eric Williams. All that is in the past now. Kwame Ture was born Stokely Carmichael in TT. He

There is an exquisite Jamaican saying: “When dog have money, him buy cheese.” That is most applicable to our national spending on tertiary education. The expression means we recklessly purchase un

Wayne Kublalsingh SHE NEEDS to get the monkey off her back. This was former prime minister and UNC leader Basdeo Panday commenting on why his successor Kamla Persad-Bissessar might not have been able to fulfil her prime ministerial functions. She carries a monkey on her back, he explained quizzically. Some people place monkeys on their

A passionate and upset Richard "Torpedo" Thompson said on Monday he felt hurt by the government's treatment of the victorious 2008 4x100m men's Olympic team. He was speaking at a media conference held via Zoom.

I am convinced that the problem with politics and governance in this country—the fact that we never seem to get it right, that having wavered between PNM in control for

Paolo Kernahan As a grandmother, Kamla Persad-Bissessar has doubtless heard of the extraordinarily successful Disney animated film Frozen, and, more importantly, its signature song, Let It Go. Yet she won't take the hint. With the Opposition Leader, there is this sense that she's determined to salvage her legacy with another go at office. And why

THE EDITOR: Former prime minister Basdeo Panday was so right when he uttered the now famous and oft quoted sentence: Politics has a morality of its own. As a retiree, I have time to not only relax and reflect, but to also read the newspapers. I distinctly remember reading several stories in which former UNC

Within recent days, two UNC (United National Congress) members with NJAC (National Joint Action Committee) roots took joint action, abandoned the UNC and immediately sought succour within the PNM (People’s

Prof Emeritus Brinsley Samaroo says the trade union movement should be more than about the struggles for wages and working conditions but must lobby for constitutional reform, inform about its