Opinion
Trinidad’s ministerial reshuffle
The talk of the month in Trinidad & Tobago has been the ministerial reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar.
Numbers on a swipe-pad at a city bank have faded
Dear Editor, The numbers on the swipe-pad of a city commercial bank are faded, and customers, especially the elderly, even though they are wearing spectacles, cannot press these digits readily.
PPP’s engaging of Mr Ramkarran must lead to assurance that it has taken concerns about clean gov’t on board
Dear Editor, What the PPP should have done when Mr Ramkarran wrote about corruption, was to have trumpeted its agreement with him, affirmed that the Cabinet, Executive Committee and Office of the President recognised its own concerns and determination in Mr Ramkarran’s statements, and just let the matter die out.
President Ramotar has done nothing about corruption
Dear Editor, I seek to share some thoughts on the Donald Ramotar presidency.
Charity Police Station, environs need sprucing up
Dear Editor, I wish to call on the Minister of Home Affairs to act early and clear the environs of the Charity Police Station.
A new beginning for Ralph
Dear Editor, Loyalty to a cause and loyalty to a party are not necessarily synonymous.
That homosexuality is neither a pathology nor mental illness has been recognized internationally and in varying political contexts
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the letter `Fact, truth detail and evidence should take centre stage when discussing gay rights’ by Roger Williams published in your paper on June 28, 2012.
Thirty-two countries have abolished all forms of corporal punishment
Dear Editor, To date, 32 countries have abolished all forms of corporal punishment (CP) of children in homes and in schools.
Cold War diplomacy and the Syrian Crisis
The four month-old Arab League-United Nations diplomatic effort to try to bring an end to the increasingly horrific carnage unfolding in Syria has come to bear a striking resemblance, in at least one important respect, to Cold War diplomacy.
Dave, the brothers don’t have it that easy
Dear Editor, Ow Dave I think you too tough on the brothers (`Men are such jackasses’—Sunday July 1 `So it Go’).
Breaking news
The PPP no longer has a dissenting voice of internal reason
Dear Editor, Ralph Ramkarran’s resignation is the nadir of the PPP’s catastrophic descent into disgrace.
Are the Oath of Professional Conduct, Conflict of Interest Code observed by the Audit Office?
Dear Editor, Given the known record of non-compliance in the governance structures it might be appropriate for concerned parties to enquire whether the following statutory requirements have been or are observed, by the Audit Office: Oath of Professional Conduct Section 7 of the Act requires that: “The Auditor General shall not enter upon the duties of his office unless he has taken and subscribed before the Speaker of the National Assembly the Oath in the form set out in the First Schedule to the Constitution.”
It is time for the decent in the PPP to stand up and be counted
Dear Editor, It has to be a painful, wrenching moment for Mr.
Rohee tried to divert from the real issue
Dear Editor, Please allow me to pen these few lines in response to Minister Rohee’s letter published in SN on June 29 captioned: ‘If ever there are tensions in our society it is because of the political opposition fuelled by sections of the media and rarely the government.‘
Parents should be able to discipline children by flogging them
Dear Editor, I was writing another letter totally unrelated to this one when a Stabroek News editorial on the recent imprisonment of a father for beating his promiscuous teen caught my eye.
Old coins
Dear Editor, After carefully checking the date on a particular coin which I have had for many years in my collection, I have just found out that it carries the year 1834 which makes it 178 years old.
The administration is only dealing with corruption selectively
Dear Editor, During the PNC era, there were many allegations of corruption which were steadily pursued by the then opposition, the PPP led by the late Dr Cheddi Jagan.
Mr Sattaur’s exit from NCN
In the era of former President Jagdeo and a PPP/C parliamentary majority, the shake-up that has been visited upon state TV, the National Communications Network would have been unheard of.
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