By Biko Agozino August 28, 2008 I have just seen the box office hit movie, Hancock, with my two teenage sons and their 12 year old cousin. As usual, after seeing a movie with the kids, we engaged in debates about the representations and subtle messages in the movie. I asked the young men if … Continue reading In Class with Hancock
By Verna St. Rose Greaves August 18, 2008 I tasted my blood At birth So that I May not know war: Ocean of blood show me where you flow River of bile tell me of your source I bit my tongue Before I slept So that I Could talk back at death: Hills of flesh … Continue reading T&T Needs Enriched Public Discourse
By Michael De Gale July 08, 2008 T&T is not a failed state; it is a state whose socio/economic policies, ineffective leadership and lack of vision is failing its citizens. It is a state which has consistently failed to effectively integrate large sections of the African and East Indian populations into the wealth creating mechanism … Continue reading Poverty is Not a Virtue
by Raffique Shah Sunday, July 6th 2008 LAST Friday, the House of Representatives debated a motion to confirm or strike down the Police Service Commission’s (PSC) nominee for the position of Commissioner of Police, Senior Superintendent Stephen Williams. Speculation was rife beforehand that the Government would reject Williams on the premise that he was too … Continue reading A mess of its own making
Ria Taitt Political Editor Sunday, June 22nd 2008 Teachers feel “disempowered” and “abandoned” on the issue of corporal punishment and classroom control as students mock them saying “Government say yuh cyar do me nothing”. Eighty three per cent of teachers agree that corporal punishment should be allowed in secondary schools. And, according to 62 per … Continue reading Teachers on corporal punishment
Barbados: 16 and Under THE AGE OF MEDICAL CONSENT should go below the 16-year limit which Minister of Family and Youth Affairs Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo is proposing. This is being recommended by the executive director of the Barbados Family Planning Association, George Griffith.
By Richard Charan Friday, June 13th 2008 MASKED men broke into the home of a young school teacher and shot her in the back when she tried to save herself. And despite her blood and her tears, she was abducted, taken to an abandoned house and raped, sodomised and beaten.
By Raffique Shah Sunday, June 8th 2008 WITH 27 years of writing columns under my belt-I once wrote two columns a week, but never scaled Keith Smith’s one-a-day heights-how well I recall sitting before a typewriter and pondering for hours: what topic shall I choose today? At this sordid point in our nation’s history, that … Continue reading Relieve rapists of their tongues
Teen arrested too South Bureau Tuesday, June 3rd 2008 Fifty-four-year-old Ricky Ali appeared in court yesterday, charged with the rape of an eight-year-old girl. A neighbour, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was also charged with raping the girl on a separate date. Both were refused bail when they appeared before Magistrate Ramraj Harripersad in the Mayaro Magistrates’ … Continue reading Man, 54, charged with raping girl, 8
$80,000 bail for woman charged with having sex with teen boy By Nikita Braxton Tuesday, May 6th 2008 Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog A woman, charged with having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old boy without his consent, was yesterday granted $80,000 bail and ordered to stay 100 feet away from the young man. Reshmi … Continue reading Woman 21 charged for raping boy 17