LettersWednesday, June 19, 2013
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People power for road safetyONCE when I was living in Stamford, Connecticut in the United States, I was on the I-95 heading to Mystic for the weekend. Suddenly, a car jetted past mine and every car on the highway, going well above the 65 mph speed limit Read More » Ex-Caroni workers waiting in frustrationIN 2004 the then PNM government took the plunge and shut down Caroni Ltd, putting thousands of sugar workers on the breadline. Read More » Dr Rowley’s deficiencies on showTHE latest uncomfortable situation that the Leader of the Opposition has now found himself in speaks volumes of his fitness or lack thereof to continue to be in that important position. Read More » Losing lessonsTAKING the positives from defeat is a good motivational strategy but as a recurring substitute for a hard, critical look at the causes of such defeat can impair rather than improve performance for the future. Read More »
Minister, CFO and the fire truck“NOTHING questionable” is how Minister of National Security Emmanuel George refers to the $6.8 million bill brought by former chief fire officer Carl Williams to retrieve the fire truck which fell off the Arima-Blanchisseuse Road. Read More » Ex-Caroni workers waiting in vain?FORMER workers of Caroni (1975) Ltd like myself have been waiting too long on the housing lots offered to us in our VSEP packages. Read More » $6.8m rubs salt in nation’s woundsAS if we the people of Trinidad and Tobago have not been insulted enough by the poorest of poor decisions to recover a fire tender for three times its cost, Minister Emmanuel George is now defending this decision by Cabinet in his “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” comments. Read More » Why now and what else is hidden?THIS fire truck affair occurred last November— eight months ago. Why are we only now hearing about it? Read More » Doing wrong is now right in T&TThe sheer obscenity of the fire truck fiasco compels me to wonder at the level of our moral degeneracy in the way that something so obviously wrong can be considered right at the highest level of our existence in this country. Read More » Did I get cricket calculation wrong?All cricket fans know that the Duckworth-Lewis formula is a mathematical conundrum. However, there are websites that provide a Duckworth-Lewis calculator. Read More » US a partner in keeping region safeI would like to once again state my thanks to the people of Trinidad and Tobago for the warm welcome they extended to US Vice-President Joe Biden two weeks ago. Read More » Punish those moving noisemakersThe recent letter sent by K Camps headlined “Sleepless in Diego Martin” has highlighted all the pain and suffering we residents of Diego Martin have to go through every day of our lives. Read More » Are you a daddy or a donor?What is really causing the dysfunctional family units? Maybe it could be the mothers who are strangled, lit on fire or stabbed to death at their workplace by disgruntled fathers. Read More » Letters Headlines
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