The swift exit of Calder Hart
Prime Minister Patrick Manning acted swiftly as the gathering storm was about at its cresecendo. Hart promptly left town
The shock waves from embattled Calder Hart’s abrupt sacking, after he was stoutly defended in the recent past by Prime Minister Patrick Manning, have not subsided and the political fortunes of estranged former cabinet minister Dr Keith [...]
Will things improve under new Revenue Authority?
From Mary King, Trinidad Express
Many years ago our best brains went into the Public Service. Read more….
Part I
Many years ago our best brains went into the Public Service.
Today we are being told that the Public Service employees are
indolent, inefficient and corrupt and that it is impossible to
discipline anyone or reform the service because of our [...]
Unspeakably bad Windies!
The West Indies have demonstrated that they have perfected the technique of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Their defeat, on Sunday in a T20 game at the Queen’s Park Oval, against Zimbabwe a country that has voluntarily stopped playing Test cricket because of disastrous results and who can’t even beat Bangladesh, is a [...]
More oil, gas revenue for Govt. in 2010
Last year it was gloom and doom as oil and gas prices drop precipitously. Things are just the opposite in 2010.
There is certainly more cause for optimism regarding Government’s revenue take from oil and gas in 2010.
Last year, it was doom and gloom as gas prices had plummeted to below US $3 and oil to [...]
‘I felt I was an artist’:Viv Richards
Viv Richards, the only captain under whom West Indies never lost a series,
speaks about the sense of confrontation he brought to his cricket, his first
Test in Antigua and his success against England. Read more….
Interview by Benj Moorehead,CRICINFO
What was it like having all those great West Indian fast bowlers to face in
practice?
You may say it was [...]
Manning palances in Parliament on mystery church affair
The Prime Minister vigorously defends what he calls the Full Gospel Movement as he gives a comprehensive account of financial assistance and land grants doled out to religious bodies over the past 50 years. He, however, failed to say much about the female Rasputin.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning hit back hard at his detractors in [...]
Cocaine missing at St James Police Station
Just one day after a Parliamentary Joint Select Committee severely criticised the performance of the Police Service and the Acting Police Commissioner came the news that some $1.5 million in cocaine held in storekeeping at the St James Police station has disappeared.
This time police did not blame the disappearance on greedy rodents.
Late last year some [...]
Carnival, Cash, Commess
BY Paolo Kernahan, Trinidad Guardian
The very public and very vitriolic spat between the state television station CNMG and the long
suffering Gayelle channel over the issue of rights for the rights of the annual two-day street
party has stirred many other troubles at the heart of the debate. Read more….
The very public and very vitriolic spat between [...]
New coach Gibson wants WI players to trust him
New West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson has pointed to his relationship with the regional squad
as a key component of his pending tenure….Read more. From the Trinidad Guardian
CASTRIES – New West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson has pointed to his relationship with the regional squad as a key component of his pending tenure, and says [...]
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
There is no reason why Latin America and the Caribbean should not have their own body of political consensus. Read more….
From Cuban President Raul Castro, GRANMA newspaper
There is no reason why Latin America and the Caribbean should not have their own body of political consensus Speech by General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president [...]