Trinidad and Tobago
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PM hints that Warner may not be UNC candidate for by-election
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has indicated that her former national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner is not an automatic choice of the ruling United National Congress (UNC) to contest the parliamentary seat he vacated in the wake of a damning report of his activities as an international football executive. Warner, who launched his…
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Trinidad to host Canada-CARICOM business meeting
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will host a meeting of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Canadian public and private sector officials to share best practices, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has announced. Addressing a public meeting of her United National Congress (UNC) at Gasparillo, south of here on Monday night, Prime Minister Persad Bissessar, who last week…
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TRINIDAD-MEDIA-Government moves to repeal criminal libel legislation
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said it would move to amend the existing libel and defamation legislation so as to ensure that journalists were not jailed “for the malicious publication of any defamatory libel.” Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, speaking at a news conference following talks with a delegation from the Vienna-based International…
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Call for better tsunami warning systems
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In the Caribbean and western mid-Atlantic, tens of thousands of lives are at risk and millions of dollars are at stake if a tsunami strikes and therefore all communities must implement more efficient warning systems. So says Christa von Hillebrandt Andrade, manager of the US national weather service Caribbean tsunami warning programme, who spoke yesterday…
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‘Be ready for natural disasters’
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Citizens must make themselves ready to deal with disasters and not depend on the Government, head of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM), Dr Stephen Ramroop, said yesterday. Ramroop was speaking at the eighth session of the Inter-Governmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean, at…
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How Dancehall and Rap Define Today’s Youth
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The music we listen to reflects our innermost feelings and our relationship with society, and if society does not offer opportunities for jobs and a meaningful life, then music won’t offer narratives that reflect hope and opportunity for loving relationships and acceptance into society. That is why we have hip hop culture infiltrating T&T. That’s…
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Trinidad-born author wins regional prize for literature
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad-born United Kingdom-based writer, Monique Roffey, whose work titled “Archipelago” based on the 2008 floods here, has won the US$10,000 2013 One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. St. Lucian poet, Kendel Hippolyte won the poetry category for his collection “Fault Lines” while Guyanese writer Rupert Roopnarine won the non-fiction category with…
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Getting gender right
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – At Wednesday’s consultation with religious bodies on the 2012 draft national policy on gender and development, Leela Ramdeen, chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice, raised a curious argument regarding the definition of gender in the document. After acknowledging the strengths of the policy document, Ms Ramdeen described the definition of gender as “socially…
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Warner in destabilising role of insider/outsider
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago has now been challenged to entertain the prospect of a Jack Warner scenario that is still being scripted. Such is the outcome, first, of the unfolding of increasingly devastating revelations and events and, then, of his own calculating responses. His resignations from high FIFA and international football positions, from the T&T Cabinet,…
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I acted alone
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she was not pressured by any Government minister into accepting the resignation of former minister Jack Warner. The Prime Minister returned from Canada on Saturday night and said it was in fact the Concacaf findings and report by Sir David Simmons, a former chief justice and attorney general of Barbados,…
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