Tuesday, February 9, 2010 National news of Trinidad and Tobago
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Go, Mr Hunt, go
As if it were a headpiece causing a headache on Carnival Tuesday, Sport Minister Gary Hunt thrust into the convenient hands of the Sports Company the responsibility for mounting a flag on a pole at the Hasely Crawford Stadium-at the cost of $2 million. »
For whom the educational bell tolls
Schooling in Trinidad and Tobago has had a long history. This has been the result of the hard work of successive colonial administrations and several religious denominations. Also, the People’s National Movement (PNM) has been responsible for the type of education system we now have. »
A tune for the time
Interesting how the tens of thousands of deaths in Haiti have given new life to the 24-year-old David Rudder song. Not, of course, that ’Haiti’’ was ever certified dead but the recent horror has resurrected it Rudder having to sing it everywhere he appears this season. »
On building codes
In the first flurry of responses to the Haitian tragedy it was inevitable alongside the humanitarian responses and the calls for reconstruction that there should also be reference to the issue of building codes and the vital need for them. »

Road safety in our own hands
IN a letter addressed to the Minister of Works and Transport and dated February 2, 2010, the advocacy group Arrive Alive praised the minister for the Government’s passing the long-awaited legislation and then the implementation of the breathalyser. »

the economy: a tectonic shift
KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR convinced the UNC membership that Basdeo Panday could not lead the party into government. On a platform preaching opposition unity that appealed to the arithmetic of the politics, she soundly defeated Mr Panday and his slate. But this dissatisfaction with Panday started sometime ago and to some it was the reason why Winston Dookeran took his supporters from the UNC, attracted a part of the middle class that did not support either the Manning or Panday faction and formed the Congress of the People (COP). »
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