What is meant by the statement: “No child shall be left behind?” Does it mean: “There will be opportunity provided for every child who qualified for such opportunity?”
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A few days ago we celebrated Mother’s Day, lauding mothers for the love and protection they provide their children. So many women like myself love children but have none of our own, so we relish being aunts and honorary aunties to our friends’...
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I read with disgust the report concerning six-year-old Eric Gittens, who was killed by a fallen concrete table top at Rex Turtle Beach Hotel, Tobago.
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Earlier this week a 1,005.9lb blue marlin was caught in Tobago during the annual Tobago International Game Fishing Tournament. It set a new record for the largest Blue Marlin caught in Trinidad and Tobago waters and the Southern Caribbean.
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For many years now, overcrowding has been and continues to be a great challenge at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH), which has only approximately 650 beds and which serves a catchment area of 600,000 people.
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It is with a great feeling of disgust I write this as I feel the authorities need to be exposed as the most incompetent bunch I have come across so far!
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Last weekend, mothers in some areas of Arima got a Mother’s Day surprise that wasn’t really appreciated.
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“… Social programs and policies are usually designed to solve social problems; sometimes the social program creates social problems of its own” (Chambers, 2000, p 10).
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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Minister of Health is concerned about the unsubstantiated claims made by local alternative medicine specialists with regard to the efficacy of their products
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It was refreshing to see that Sensei Anthony Parris has resumed teaching karate.
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