THE EDITOR: Politics: the art or science of government. Morality: conduct conforming to a standard of right behaviour. Politics is the most noble of callings. It allows the politician to do positive things that ministers of religion, teachers and physicians cannot do. Politicians can provide water to those without, health care to the sick, buil(...)

THE EDITOR: When President George Maxwell Richards decided to suspend Justice Gladys Gafoor from the Integrity Commission immediately, the statement should have come from the Office of the President and not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Information.

THE EDITOR: Really, I can’t form the words to express my disappointment, shock and astonishment at the ludicrous announcement by the Minister of Multiculturalism etc, on a television newscast, that this country or this Government will invite the Chinese to teach us a thing or two about producing carnival costumes.

THE EDITOR: I am not a medical practitioner, I am simply a layman who, with a passion for knowledge, has for years observed and studied the causes and effects of different debilitating conditions in the human species.

THE EDITOR: Not quite three months after the People’s Partnership swept into power, and under the headline “AG’s A Team” on Newsday’s front page of August 14, 2010, the AG Anand Ramlogan appeared with his A-Team, heading the Anti-Corruption Investigations Bureau. “The briefing was called to introduce the five-member legal team . . . British lawy(...)

THE EDITOR: Are we in this beautiful country of Trinidad and Tobago serious about the safety of staff members and the general public who visit certain properties daily?

THE EDITOR: Who attacked the police at Panorama semi-finals last Sunday? Media report video show some persons aiming to move from the Greens to the North Stand. The police thought that their action was unreasonable and proceeded to use rapacious violence to convince them to change their minds.

THE EDITOR: The State enterprise, EtecK, charged with the non-energy diversification of the economy, has spent some TT$1billion on its flagship project, the Tamana Science and Technology Park. This funding is made up of government spending and loans. There is very little to show for this spending (while loans have to be serviced). According to the (...)

THE EDITOR: If a tree in the middle of the forest falls and there’s no one there to hear it, does its tumbling generate noise?

A dog is considered a puppy until it is one-year-old. This may be hard to believe, as you look at your 9-month-old mastiff, already weighing in at about 75 lbs and taking up most of the space on the sofa (when you let him!)