Daily Features

A bigger threat than terror We have to look forward to a long and terrible age of increasing and fearsome devastation. 

The institutional arrangements in the EPA are of importance Tucked away towards the end of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will be signed shortly between the Caribbean and Europe is a section that deals with what are known as the institutional arrangements.

A look at the Trinidad and Tobago Budget 2008-09 It was like a baptism of heat for new Minister of Finance Karen Nunez-Tesheira of the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago as she presented the first budget of the re-elected Patrick Manning government and more personally, her first since her surprise appointment as the country’s first female Minister of Finance.

By Legal Analyst In her letter in Stabroek News of September 22, 2008, which responded to allegations of unconstitutional delay by the President in assenting to certain parliamentary bills, Minister Gail Teixeira makes, and repeats, an interesting observation.

One of the fond memories of my childhood involves my grandmother, who, I believe, was a woman way ahead of her time.

Hail Mary passes Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica.

Danger to swimmers! On Sunday September 7, 2008, a glorious Sunday, 23-year-old Gloria Nedd and her boyfriend, Royston Seecharan, went to the sea-shore between Pegasus and the jetty for a swim in the Atlantic.

Some plants can be propagated using leaf cuttings In the middle of September the nights get particularly cold in England, and further north in Scotland it is not unusual to experience the first frosts.

‘My life, my country’ There exists a slim, neat volume of some fifty pages, unobtrusive and unheralded, whose worth is several times more than its unassuming appearance and deserving of much more attention than it has ever been given. 

Distemper Here is another disease against which we can vaccinate, thus offering our dogs meaningful protection.

The hard burn of heartburn By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Consultant Internal Medicine) What is GERD?

Giving – and making it known When charity benefits both I looked up the definition of “charity” in an old dictionary- (sorry for myself not being computer-wise) and nearly got into trouble.

Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) Installment Sixty-Six Recently, the U.S.

Work among women fifty years ago By Cecilia McAlmont In the Annual Report Guyana 1958 is an excerpt on Work Among Women.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.

Hurricane relief for Haiti and Cuba: Defining a response Alissa Trotz is Director of Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto and editor of the In the Diaspora Column Sunday’s newspapers carried a letter by Christobel Hughes that drew attention to our moral responsibility to assist Cuba and Haiti in the wake of the recent hurricanes that have swept across the region, and called for an organized relief drive that involved the government, opposition, trade unions, private sector and other organizations.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street about their role in their children’s schoolwork.

Crisis in the USA: Is America too big to fail? September has been a disastrous month for the US whose leading presidential candidates like to refer to it jarringly as the greatest country on earth.

World champion Viswanathan Anand loses to Levon AronianAnand, V (2798) – Aronian, L (2751) Grand Slam Final Bilbao ESP (8), 10.9.2008 1.e4