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Despite much criticism about the proposed draconian penalties in the tobacco legislation recently passed, the initiative is a welcome move, but it is well to remember that the air we breathe today contains more than tobacco smoke.
Tags: vehicle emissions, tobacco smoke, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Environment, Air pollution, Smoke, Liquid fuels, Gasoline, Petroleum products, Tobacco, Disaster Accident, Automobile emissions control, Air dispersion modeling
Prof Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winner 2001, came to UWI and delivered a brilliant lecture on the measurement or rather the mismeasurement of economic growth. It was not the most eloquent lecture we have had from Nobel visitors, but it was certainly...
Tags: Joseph Stiglitz, European Social, Mr Sarkozy, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Economic ideologies, Applied ethics, Happiness economics, Index numbers, Gross domestic product, Happiness, National accounts
The Act, I expect, will join those preventing littering and mandating the use of seatbelts (among many other bits of legislation relating to motoring behaviour) that, on paper, make the country appear awfully progressive but which in reality are seldom...
Tags: Tobacco Control Bill, Tobacco Control Act, legal product, hand smoke, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Smoking, Tobacco smoking, Passive smoking, Cigarette, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Tobacco politics, Tobacco control movement
North Zone coaches hold successful workshop Sunday, November 29th 2009 Former WI coach: Gus Logie The North Zone Cricket Coaches Association held a successful two-day workshop at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, last weekend, with the likes of former...
Tags: west indies, north zone, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Coach, Garfield Sobers, Coaching, Life coaching, allnews, Gus Logie
Bas missed golden opportunity Sunday, November 29th 2009 Basdeo Panday, as Leader of the Opposition, is constitutionally recognised as being part of what is known in democratic societies as ’Government’. He, however, usually sits in Parliament and is...
Tags: US White House, square feet, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Politics, Basdeo Panday, Palace
But they are highly unaware of what is truly happening behind the doors and this is what I am going to share with the rest of the country as I have very reliable information, being a liaison officer at this second summit. Ministry workers are not volunteers...
Tags: CHOGM, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Dear US Consul: Three years ago I wanted to attend a wedding in the US and they gave me a visa for a month. Now I want to go to my uncle’s funeral, but people at the embassy said they can’t give me a visa because I’m not qualified.
Tags: United States, middle ground, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, L-1 visa, L-2 visa, Visas, Immigration to the United States, Foreign workers, Human Interest, Human migration
T&T cyclists third at Pan Am Masters Sunday, November 29th 2009 Pan Am Masters: Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Masters team who travelled to the UCI-sanctioned 2009 Pan American Masters Cycling Championships in the Dominican Republic. Trinidad and...
Tags: Trinidad, Tobago Masters, Godfrey Clyne, Colombia, Ronald Peters, Everard Carter, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Trinidad and Tobago, Hospitality Recreation, Trinidad and Tobago at the 2003 Pan American Games, allnews
A home for rhythm Martin Daly Sunday, November 29th 2009 Carnival Messiah was brought to Trinidad and played at the Queen’s Hall in July, 2003...The corridors and wings of Queen’s Hall had insufficient space for the movement of the cast through the audience.
Tags: concert hall, PCS Nitrogen, Carnival Messiah, Hall, Trinidad and Tobago, performing arts, Port of Spain, Carnivals, Parades, Entertainment Culture
Mt Hope during a visit yesterday. ’I think it is a very special place.’ Baroness Kinnock, visiting the country as one of the delegates for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Port of Spain at the weekend, praised the work of the Foundation,...
Tags: Baroness Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Health Medical Pharma, Life peers, Baroness, Glenys Kinnock, Kinnock, Glenys