ASPIRATION. This is a strong desire to achieve an ambition, a goal in life. An aspiration to become “somebody” or to create something becomes an energiser for action. Last September, when “gang warfare” became a hot topic — for yet another time — this column dealt with the aspirations of our youth to illustrate how the lack of civic aspirations is (...)

Every year, in its World Communications Day message, the church incisively appraises the communication technology and its impact on culture, stressing always the positive over the negative, offering encouragement to digital natives and calling everyone to make the best use of the media. This year is no different.

Here we are in TT, in the year 2012, our fiftieth year of independence, and just eight years from “Vision 2020”, and what is the topic we are currently debating?

THAT the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) was billed for a trip to the Disney World Resort, Florida, by persons acting on behalf of its former president Harry Harnarine was perhaps not an entirely surprising disclosure. Given the evidence at the Colman Inquiry over the last two weeks of hundreds of millions in illegal wheeling and dealing at the HCU and at(...)

Police say petrol was used to start a fire in a house in Derby, with the blaze originating below the letterbox. Two people – a man and a woman – have been held for questioning separately in connection with the incident which took the lives of six children. Five of the children died in the blaze while the sixth died later in hospital.

By calling children slow learners or duncy, others abnormal, and colour coding others criminals are grossly unfair judgments of innocent people.

Though I have treated the issue of same sex marriage in this Sunday Woman´s Weekly, I´d like to use this space to respond specifically to the anti gay rights sentiments expressed by Anjuman Sunnat-Ul-Jamaat (ASJA) president general, Haji Yacoob Ali, who last week came out openly against homosexuality.