Let us suppose you were the attending nurse at the Couva Health Centre when 12-year-old Rajiv Persad was brought in after being bitten by two dogs. Supposing that you knew - as you should - that standard procedure called for the boy to be administered with anti-tetanus shots. Supposing now that, after checking, you discovered that there were no doses of the drug at the workplace. Would you have, as the attending nurse did in the given situation, give the lad two Panadol tablets and send him on his way and hang the possible consequences? »

On the assumption that President Barack Obama survives for a full four-year term - for it is generally assumed that, as the first African-American president, he will face a higher than average risk of assassination - what changes will he bring to the United States and the world? It is remarkably difficult to say, for no president since Lyndon Johnson has come to office with so few commitments to specific policies. »

The youth man on the hill - in his late 20s, I'd guess, old enough to have been working - at whatever - long enough to amass the funds necessary for stereo equipment capable of blasting clear across the valley, but yet still young enough not to have begun seeking out more substantial and more rewarding music - jammed a mixed playlist on Tuesday morning. »

Part III »

THE speed with which tickets for the upcoming "revenge match" between Trinidad and Tobago and England were sold out would have been gratifying news for the organisers. »

IN Tobago last Monday by consensus, an all-embracing ceremony marked the service at the Scarborough Anglican Church at the funeral of Edgar Everette John, the man generations of Tobagonians knew familiarly as "Murphy". »