Jack Warner’s intention to contest his own by-election will pose for the United National Congress one of its biggest challenges in the after-wash of the Warner-Concacaf-resignation-firing affair.
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I’d intended to look on silently at the spectacle of the erstwhile National Security Minister’s dark night of the soul, but a person with a foreign accent I met last week changed that.
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Our ability to fool ourselves is startling and often amusing. For decades parents have encouraged their children to eat spinach in the belief that spinach was loaded with iron.
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I am wrung out from my four days at the annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest, but also inspired and renewed by those four days. The festival ran at the National Library in Port-of-Spain from April 25-28.
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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...
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Many might say we have a simple answer to that question. It is the one offered by Western academics and the law—corruption is the abuse of public office and/or power for private and personal gain.
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Kim Nichols from Maine last month told the US Senate’s special committee on ageing of her father’s mystery phone call from Jamaica. He was told he had won a car and a lottery cash prize—but first, there was a little US$500 transfer fee for shipping.
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The Integrity in Public Life Act stipulates that each person in public life must submit a Declaration of Income, Assets and Liabilities and a Statement of Registrable Interests to the Integrity Commission by May 31 of each year.
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Seamstresses call it a basting stitch. It is loose and temporary, a precursor to the more permanent stitching.
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Tucked among the Bocas Literary Festival’s many activities was a short panel discussion on CLR James’ classic Beyond a Boundary, which celebrates its 50th anniversary of publication this year.
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