LettersTuesday, May 21, 2013
LettersSend LettersPlease send letters to the editor for publication in the Express to express@trinidadexpress.com LettersVictory for mediocrity over initiativeThe recent hullabaloo about Question 35 on the SEA Mathematics paper has illustrated many of the ills in our education system and explained much of what I’ve been complaining about over the last 20 years or so. First, let’s look at the offending question: Read More » Too many are lost for wordsDuring a recent Joint Select Committee meeting of the Parliament, chairman Corrine Baptiste-McKnight came up with the “far out” suggestion that all schools be declared “English Speaking Zones”. Read More » Traffic nightmareWhy is the travelling public inconvenienced so terribly every time there is a big concert at the the Centre of Excellence in Macoya? Last Saturday it took me two hours to get from Port of Spain to Arima. Read More » Shameful grade for EnglishNow that the teachers of English have failed at their jobs, the Ministry of Education wants to teach the subject as a foreign language. Frankly, I am at a loss for words. If they cannot teach our native language, which we all speak, how can they teach anything else? This is a national shame, but I suppose this is what you get with banana republics. Read More » Is T&T ready for tomorrow’s world?Just before the demise of our last government, many commentators on education opposed the decision of the Ministry of Education to introduce same-sex schools into the education system of Trinidad and Tobago. Read More » Let the Dutch help solve flood problemHAVING visited and read about The Netherlands and the way they control flooding, I want to suggest to our Government that they hire the Dutch to assist with the flooding that takes place, and will inevitably take place again during the rainy season in the South Quay/City Gate area. Read More » Small minds and Standard English“Treating Standard English as a foreign language in Trinidad and Tobago may well be the next step from the Ministry of Education. I guess the Ministry is humbly admitting to defeat. I would like to propose two options. Read More » What about those who got it right?I sympathise with the children who did not do Question 35 in the recent SEA exam. I understand that Question 35 is not going to be marked. Read More » Lessons from that SEA questionAs the SEA “ratio” question issue refuses to go away, I wish to add my two cents. First, a topic which is not on any syllabus should not be examined in principle; but if it is not, as alleged in this case, then why not? Read More » Keep soldiers for external enemiesThe issue of whether to engage or disengage a precepted military to support the Police Service in joint internal operations is a simple constitutional matter and does not require long discussion: the Constitution does not allow it. Read More » Where is the justice?I am currently in a state in shock and I am utterly appalled. How could we in this country allow this to happen to us? A man played high-stakes roulette with our hard-earned money and lost it all. He is now sitting snug and secure in Florida, USA, and still living the high life. Read More » Time for election primary systemMany years ago, the then political leader of the United National Congress (UNC), Basdeo Panday, suggested primaries be held in order to choose a representative to contest any election. Read More » HIV—the challenging realityAs this country joins the world in observing “Candlelight Memorial” to remember those who have died from AIDS and to sensitise the public about the impact and methods of prevention, it is amazing when you reflect on the genesis of this microbiological time bomb, first identified in 1981 in five homosexual men in North America. Read More » Letters Headlines
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