Opinion

Food for thought

The letters column in this publication, since its inception in 1986, has served the community as a forum where all manner of thoughts, ideas, information and valuable historical knowledge are dispensed.

Bitter sweet justice

Dear Editor, The saying: you do the crime you must do the time, is apt, in the sentences handed down to the five involved in the heinous and brutal killing of Faiyaz Narinedatt, a young son, husband and father.

State contracts and the koker door calamity

The report published in the Friday, January 20th issue of this newspaper regarding the flooding in parts of Charlestown and Albouystown, the result of what the report refers to as “shoddy koker work” completed by a private contractor, is a microcosm of a deeper problem of contractors seemingly failing – whether through a competency deficit or through deliberate departure from the specifications of the contract – to properly execute the specific deliverables.

The CLICO crisis 14 years later

Fourteen years ago today, shockwaves reverberated throughout the Caribbean when the Trinidadian government announced that it was bailing out the CLICO parent company and some of its subsidiaries.

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