Overall, the average detection rate of the TTPS has plummeted in recent years from a dismal 24 per cent to 14 per cent. The data looks even worse compared to rates in the UK, with a population of about 60 million people and a detection rate of close...
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The startling story of the Environmental Commission, which has been slinking along for the last 13 years with no shortage of funding, raises the prospect another state agency designed to serve the larger interests of the country seems to be falling...
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The Government’s decision to close the Carrera Island Prison and the prospect that the prison at Port-of-Spain might also be shut down raises again the possibility of a long overdue rethinking of the country’s prisons systems.
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Tomorrow, President George Maxwell Richards will be given a grand sendoff. A day later, his successor, President-elect Anthony Carmona, will be welcomed with even more fanfare.
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Views on his future career may be equally divided, since his papacy will be largely defined by his handling of major issues affecting the church, including sexual abuse by priests, decline in membership and the Vatican’s positions on abortion,...
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One of the early and unnecessary casualties of the Flying Squad bacchanal may turn out to be the relationship between the media and the acting Commissioner of Police.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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It was a positive step, given T...
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The Minister of Local Government did not specifically lament some of the Government’s choices of councillors at Tuesday’s launch of local government reform consultations, but he did make some sensible suggestions that might improve performance in...
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While the people of Trinidad and Tobago may not be quite the pyromaniacs that Environment Minister Ganga Singh claims, the large number of fires reported since December 2012 is cause for serious concern.
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