Facebook passes $38 initial public offering price
Thursday, August 1, 2013NEW YORK—Facebook’s stock has passed its $38 IPO price for the first time since its rocky public debut last May, crossing a symbolic hurdle that has eluded it for more than a...
View ArticleReport shows US economic growth stronger in 2012
Thursday, August 1, 2013WASHINGTON—The government says the US economy grew at a much faster pace last year than previously estimated. The revised growth figures signal a more sustainable economic...
View ArticleWho won’t learn must feel
Thursday, August 1, 2013If money is placed in the hands of young people who are not determined to adopt civil behaviour, then that simply reinforces their view that they do not have to transform their...
View ArticleMinistry of Education forges ahead - pt3
Sat MaharajThursday, August 1, 2013Being one of the partners in the education landscape of Trinidad and Tobago, the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha continues to note with approval, the strategic direction...
View ArticleCounting chickens before they are hatched
Clevon RaphaelThursday, August 1, 2013“This is the beginning of the end of the People’s Partnership administration.”“Jack Warner is a hero to defeat the whole PP Cabinet.”
View ArticleEmancipation for all
Thursday, August 1, 2013“Am I not a man and a brother?” Few of us will remember where this phrase comes from, but we will celebrate the passing of the Emancipation Act.
View ArticleMore doctors needed at Caanan Health Centre
Thursday, August 1, 2013I would like to bring attention a very disturbing incident that occurred at the Caanan Health Centre, Tobago. I visited the he
View ArticleRats running rampant in parts of Tobago
Thursday, August 1, 2013Are we in Tobago awaiting an outbreak of the deadly leptospirosis or other rat-borne disease? Surely the Chief Secretary, an
View ArticleNational Museum poorly staffed, funded
Thursday, August 1, 2013I was shocked to read reports of the theft of Cazabon paintings from the National Museum. I am relieved that they have been recovered.
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Photos of the Day 2013-08-01
Thursday, August 1, 2013Click here to go to the Photo of the Day 2013-08-01 gallery
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US probes IBM’s cloud computing revenue
Friday, August 2, 2013IBM says federal regulators are looking into how the company reports sales for its cloud-computing business. The technology company disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday that...
View ArticlePrison reform essential in fight against crime
Friday, August 2, 2013In 21st-century T&T the prisons, even the facilities for holding those who have not even been found guilty, remain hellish.
View ArticleBlack Voter Pudding
BC PiresFriday, August 2, 2013Secret Doubles Agent Provocateur Dhalpuri, who was last Friday provoked out of retirement/hiding by “the firetruck-load of firetruckeries in Chaguanas West” to produce...
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Who is the best calypsonian?
Peter Ray BloodFriday, August 2, 2013ValentinoWho is the best calypsonian of the 20th century? This question has been asked so many times and no one has ever been able to come up with a conclusive...
View ArticleT&T economy must adapt
Friday, August 2, 2013T&T’s economy is made up of the offshore (export-oriented sector) and the onshore which exports relatively little.
View ArticleGet it right Dr Ghany
Friday, August 2, 2013In Dr Ghany’s Sunday column he seemed not interested in the logic of my argument—but preferred to personalise it as “defending Gordon.”
View ArticleBy-election uncovered promising young politicians
Friday, August 2, 2013William Wordsworth, the great English poet, in The Rainbow said that ”The Child is father of the Man,” my interpretation being that the child, nearer to the origin
View ArticleThe biggest losers
GILLIAN LUCKYFriday, August 2, 2013The big win by Jack Warner on Monday night is a matter that will be spoken about for decades to come and for the rest of his lifetime, Warner has earned the bragging...
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Photos of the Day 2013-08-02
Friday, August 2, 2013Click here to go to the Photo of the Day 2013-08-02 gallery
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