The chaos witnessed in Haiti after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked its capital on Jan. 12 made us acutely aware of how vulnerable we are to natural disaster.

Scenes in Port-au-Prince days after the earthquake could happen anywhere in T&T, without a proper crisis-management system in place. It is good to see that Minister of Education Esther Le Gendre has taken note of that fact.

The altercation between the principal and a teacher at the El Dorado East Secondary School on Oct. 19 is one of the more recent stories of indiscipline that will sadly be dismissed as an isolated case.

The sobering reality of crime in Trinidad and Tobago may not saturate our pages like it does in the local dailies, but this absence is in no way a reflection of its place in our consciousness.

Each new school year seems to bring the magic of newness. Yet old problems continue to plague us. At a post-Cabinet press conference, Minister of Education Esther Le Gendre pointed out that poor performances by CSEC students in mathematics and English were better than their regional counterparts.

Maybe you weren't yet born in 1990. Still, July 1990, in the history of Trinidad and Tobago, will be remembered as the month and year darkness hovered over our capital city from billowing clouds of smoke above Police Headquarters.

Don’t radio stations have a responsibility to the young people of Trinidad and Tobago any longer? Don’t they respect us anymore?

By the design of the laws found in Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act, homosexuality is illegal. Supporting immigration laws also debar homosexuals from entering this country. Add to that the plethora of religious laws which denounce homosexuality and the odds of it being widely accepted in Trinidad and Tobago are stacked pretty high.

Again, we are forced to revisit the issue of the illegal trade of the “PH” taxis.
“PH” taxis plying their services for hire across T&T is only one symptom of a deeper issue, which is the lack of commitment by the Government to provide reliable transportation systems, so that the traveling public would not have to depend on “PH” taxis.

We asked our readers to share anything they have heard from their parents and elders which show just how tech-savvy they ARE NOT. Like one fella say his dad came home boasting how the company gave him a new RasBerrry phone. Another girl say her mom is always talking about Blue-teeth.