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Balancing science and religion
Monday, May 20, 2013
On the everyday level, many people are comfortable practising both science and religion. They take their medications, use analytic methods in their workplaces and pray to God.
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Scientific ignorance and homophobia
Monday, May 20, 2013
A few weeks ago my column highlighted how the state criminalises certain types of sexuality.
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Some good news today
Monday, May 20, 2013
There is no way to escape grim news. Open the newspapers, switch on the TV or surf the net and you come face to face with this lost world.
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‘Women have the power to make men wait’
Sunday, May 19, 2013
My husband and I visited Paprika on May 10, where I met three men who are in their early 50s.
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Noh Mul no more
Sunday, May 19, 2013
In just two days this month, a construction company destroyed a Maya temple, part of the ancient city of Noh Mul, near the Mexican border in northern Belize.
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Crime linked to social conditions
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Crime has definitely escalated to unprecedented and uncontrolled proportions and is now being regarded as an intrinsic part of our social life.
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Hindu burials of yesteryear
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Even though cremation of the dead is prescribed for orthodox Hindus, the practice was illegal in Trinidad until the 1930s.
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The Low Key Hokey Cokey
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sometimes it’s salutary to take a step, giant or otherwise, outside of saccharine sweet Chinibad.
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Salvaging the sick
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Only a doctor of medicine can comment on medical reasons for releasing patients from hospital, but anyone can assess practical reasons
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A computer problem
Sunday, May 19, 2013
I had intended to dedicate today’s column to a review of Dr Terrence Farrell’s The Underachieving Society.
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