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DARA E HEALY “Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel…
A Red House for Mr Biswas
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY BC PIRES TO MARK the enigma of departure, I offer this…
Samsung updates the Note
MARL LYNDERSAY THERE’S A MOMENT, near the end of Samsung’s hectic launch of the Note…
Naipaul the great
WAYNE KUBLALSINGH IF VS NAIPAUL had remained in Trinidad and Tobago, which he left at…
VS Naipaul: What we can be in the world
KIRK MEIGHOO Part 2 (continued from yesterday) AFTER YEARS of intense devotion to VS Naipaul…
Restorative vs punitive justice
DR MARGARET NAKHID-CHATOOR MUCH LEGAL terminology suggests that justice is blind and is meted out…
VS Naipaul: What we can be in the world
KIRK MEIGHOO Part 1 VS NAIPAUL’S passing is being announced around the world, not always…
The CoP as messiah
EDMUND NARINE PERPETRATION OF a hoax would best describe the six-year, million-dollar search for a…
The final great escape
DEBBIE JACOB ALMOST EVERY newspaper and book store has “summer” or “beach” reading lists that…
We jammin’ still
REGINALD DUMAS Part I IF MEMORY serves me right, it was in early 1995 that…
Boy wonder
Culture Matters DARA E HEALY “SO DO not throw away your water or juice bottles.…
Jasper the lionhearted
THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY BC PIRES EMANCIPATION DAY showers pelting down and I’m criss-crossing St…
Home is where the heart is
DR GABRIELLE HOSEIN THE floorboards creaked and tore as if daily life was almost too…
Why it pays to have Pride
JARREL DE MATAS WHEN MARJORIE PADMORE composed the National Song, God Bless Our Nation, with…
Distraction or asset to learning?
TTUTA THE RECENT ban by the French authorities on the use of smartphones, tablets and…
Weapons of mass destruction?
JEAN ANTOINE DUNNE THERE WAS a once-in-a-lifetime event on July 27. A blood moon crossed…
Democracy Trini style
LLOYD RAGOO SOON WE will be celebrating 56 years of independence and 42 as a…
Remembering slavery
DEBBIE JACOB I AM NEVER able to take an important holiday like Emancipation Day and…