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Dr Errol Benjamin Leaders become wolves because those whom they lead behave like sheep. Sheep, not in the positive aspect of being the Lamb of God full of compassion and care or as a protected follower of God, but in its derogatory aspect of being servile and unquestioning, too easily influenced or led as in

THE EDITOR: Recently I listened with interest to a claim on TV about an account being set up in a local bank sometime in the past, but now being non-existent. I cannot pass judgment here for I do not have the facts either way, but I can speculate that it would be pretty audacious or

THE EDITOR: The nostalgia of my boyhood days in the sugar barracks of Golconda was not the only impact of my return this month. I seemed to have developed a greater sense of awareness as the son of indentured labourers of how I had benefitted from their toil to ensure that my siblings and I

THE EDITOR: I commend Dr Errol Benjamin's letter of February 28 emphasising that the people of TT are happy with a unique Carnival spirit. As he pointed out, after having a whale of a time, what happens the next day when Carnival ends? Crime and wrongdoings are still being reported daily. But our multinational culture

THE EDITOR: I commend Dr Errol Benjamin's letter of February 28 emphasising that the people of TT are happy with a unique Carnival spirit. As he pointed out, after having a whale of a time, what happens the next day when Carnival ends? Crime and wrongdoings are still being reported daily. But our multinational culture

DR ERROL N BENJAMIN "SARAM NA BA” used to be the terse reprimand of my agee (grandmother), to mean rhetorically “that I had no shame," whenever I cheated my smaller sister of the sweets that she had brought from the temple. In response as a child, I often giggled and walked away with little sense

THE EDITOR: Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar would seek to be a “glass” to Brutus for him to better understand his “passions of some difference” about Caesar’s emerging tyranny which would eventually lead to Brutus’s participation in Caesar’s assassination: “And since you cannot see yourself /So well as by reflection/I your glass will modestly discover

DR ERROL BENJAMIN THE CONSTRUCTION of the new Manzanilla bypass so soon after the ravaging floods is a remarkable achievement and the Minister of Works should be given plaudits for it. And the people of that community did – no politics, no nothing, just a sincere appreciation for a service which made an important difference

Obviously, the 600-plus murders, increasing home invasions, illegal firearms and gangs, in particular, are pushing public fears infectiously to new levels. Has the country passed the tipping point? Even PM Dr Keith Rowley seems to wonder. With obvious desperation and repeated hopes, he plans to reset things by calling “national consultations on crime.” Former senior

THE EDITOR: Jensen Rushton, in a letter in the December 16 Newsday, headlined “Benjamin fails to follow his own principles" as writer of a textbook on critical thinking, has responded to my December 12 article entitled “A literate population.” First let me state that the theme of my article, which was that governmental complacency about