Commentary Judicial outrage The deficiencies of the criminal justice system have come to public notice from time to time. Some of them derive from inadequate funding for maintenance of courthouses and police stations, for example. At another level, as reported in the Sunday... 
Fairness at university
 AT AROUND this time every year, many of us are called upon to make important judgements concerning fairness. Candidates apply for loans in order to finance their tertiary studies, and the relevant authorities carry the... - Stephen Vasciannie 
A sprayer before dying
 IN THE midst of raging dengue epidemics, the cry goes out throughout the lands of the Caribbean, Let us spray! And there goes forth the word from Ministries of Health that the whole world should be sprayed and their sprayers wend... - Tony Deyal 
A world of greed and hunger
 WHEN I was a small boy I remember a gala day in our home in Trinidad: my parents purchased and brought home a refrigerator to replace the old 'ice-box' we had used before. Twenty years and more later, when I used to visit my... - Ian McDonald |