Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Crop Over: Where Bajan heritage meets Caribbean revelry

The Caribbean is un­de­ni­ably one of the most vi­brant re­gions on the plan­et, de­fined not just by its breath­tak­ing land­scapes but by its…

?Non-compliant’

The half-used in­sulin vial was wrapped in a stained cloth and tucked in­side a small purse. She had car­ried it through the swel­ter­ing heat,…

Palo Seco: A village rich in history, short on opportunity

Years ago, Pa­lo Seco was a unique mul­ti­cul­tur­al melt­ing pot, draw­ing peo­ple from across the Caribbean, as well as ex­pa­tri­ates from th…

Police to consult Plymouth residents on security post

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hill Kirk has as­sured that there will be no po­lice post in To­ba­go with­out ad­e­quate con­sul­ta­tion with st…

1,200 killed in Haiti by drone strikes; are AI weapons next?

Amidst the fears of es­ca­lat­ing war be­tween the Unit­ed States and Iran, and a pos­si­ble wider con­flict as Ukraine struck an Iran­ian ship…

Biche boy strikes a bright future for pan

As Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brates World Steel­pan Day on Au­gust 11, recog­nis­ing the on­ly acoustic mu­si­cal in­stru­ment in­vent­ed in t…

Celebrating World Steelpan Day through Panazz: The story

As Panazz: The Sto­ry is cel­e­brat­ed in Wash­ing­ton, DC, on Tues­day to mark World Steel­pan Day, for­mer Panazz leader and mu­si­cal di­rec­…

Upgrade or change the T&T business model Part II

Last week’s col­umn ar­gued that Trinidad and To­ba­go did mod­er­ate­ly well from its en­er­gy re­sources, es­pe­cial­ly gas, start­ing with th…

The race and class debate

The in­creased de­bate over the post-Eman­ci­pa­tion Day fall­out on the is­sue of race in the so­ci­ety has con­firmed the strength of our demo…

Udecott steps into Eddie Hart police-army post dispute

Af­ter two days of con­fronta­tion over the Ed­die Hart mo­bile po­lice post, the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go…

Maha Sabha: No offence with use of the word ‘c****e’

With the in­creased pub­lic use of the word, some­times in a deroga­to­ry man­ner to de­scribe those of East In­di­an de­scent, Guardian Me­dia…

Experts warn T&T reaching a racial breaking point

His­to­ri­an, Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies lec­tur­er, and ad­vo­cate for so­cial jus­tice, Jerome Teelucks­ingh, fears that racism in Trin…

Keep fetes, alcohol out of Bird Sanctuary tours, says Pouchet

The push to turn Trinidad’s wet­lands and oth­er nat­ur­al at­trac­tions in­to high-val­ue eco­tourism prod­ucts is fac­ing grow­ing con­cern am…

2,000 requests received for 246 police posts, Tobago wants 4 posts; PNM pushback

De­spite the mes­sage telegraphed to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der by Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) push­back on a po…

TPRC chair, ministers clash over Eddie Hart police post

A stand­off erupt­ed at the Ed­die Hart Grounds in Tacarigua yes­ter­day, af­ter Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man…

CoP defends police posts

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s move to set up 30 po­lice posts in com­mu­ni­ties across Trinida…

TPRC chair: Eddie Hart police post built over NGC gas pipeline

The con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the con­struc­tion of a po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah in Tacarigua has deep­ened, with Tu­na­puna/…

Appeal Court rules in Republic Bank’s favour

The Court of Ap­peal of Trinidad and To­ba­go has ruled that Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL) ex­er­cised rea­son­able care in re­la­tion to a mat­ter…