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Everard Medina

The business of policing
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Those of us who watch crime shows on TV are aware that in the USA, Canada, and other metropolitan countries the police do not sit in police stations waiting for crimes to be reported to them; they ar
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Labour in short supply
Sunday, January 19, 2014
In 1998 I was appointed to serve on the T&T Task Force to eliminate the Common Entrance Examination. I was a representative of the T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
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Political will, billboards and vagrants
Sunday, December 15, 2013
There are many definitions of the term “political will,” some are dissertative and cover many pages, but “Owlman5,” a blogger on “Wordreference.
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The trappings of independence revisited
Sunday, November 24, 2013
In the years after the end of World War II, in the heyday of newly-won independence, it was the accepted wisdom in newly emergent countries that entrance into the society of nations needed a national
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‘Reduce post-election strain for businesses’
Sunday, November 3, 2013
When there is rapid social or political change or threat of change businesses, large and small, must consider whether, from an individual perspective, these changes will be for the better or worse of
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The business of capitalism
Sunday, October 20, 2013
In the early fifties and sixties some of my older male relatives would leave the country to work abroad, returning at intervals. On inquiry, I was informed that they were working “Down the Main.”
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The business of substance abuse
Sunday, October 13, 2013
The suggestion by Chief Justice Ivor Archie that the use of marijuana in small quantities should be decriminalised is a welcome invitation for this country to at last enter into the international deba
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