The latest fruit from the poisoned tree to land heavily on our heads was an incident waiting to happen, as it merely followed a long series of criminal acts caused by Neanderthals who have been enc...

Sometimes, it is the seemingly innocuous comment by a politician about his opponent that gets the old brain cranking its gears into overdrive. Last Friday, Rama Sithanen remarked that "Il y a meme...

We are all guilty of it; it usually manifests itself for us lesser mortals at midnight on New Years' Day when the emotions of the dawn of a new phase of our lives seem to compel us to make promises ...

An acronym is a word that is made from the first letters of two or more words and can be a very useful mnemonic tool for students revising for their exams. It must however encapsulate the full ...

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages - Stanley Baldwin, UK Prime Minister, 1931. ...

Before his first budget in 2006, Rama Sithanen identified four possible ways of tackling the economic problems of Paradise Island: 1/ an increase in borrowing which would inevitably increase th...

Virtually every sensible, responsible adult in Paradise Island knows what is wrong with the country and would therefore accept the following premises:the state education system is failing a lar...

We have heard it mentioned a lot during the last year, especially since the last budget provided our major companies a jackpot of over Rs 3 billion by the simple expediency of reducing Capital Gains...

One of the key performance indicators that would impede funding from the European Union is the high level of absenteeism in our schools; a problem that should have been resolved years ago has been a...

'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free'. The Gospel of John, 8:32 The annual May Day nonsense is thankfully over and the country is still marveling at the desecration of our...

It is that time of the year again and a public holiday decreed specifically for the workers will be hijacked by a bunch of megalomaniacs on their annual crusade to use us as evidence of their po...

Imagine this scenario: despite the severe rainfalls, our reservoirs are losing water at an alarming rate and the workers there know that it is largely due to structural defects in the constructi...

I often sit in a darkened room and cogitate on life's iniquities; I worry over the obscenity that allows one man to be called a thief for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his children and another ...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary - Robert Louis Stevenson.The years pass us by and nothing seems to change. We are continuously assailed by...

"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty four." Mark TwainA whole year has passed us by and nothing has changed in Paradise Isla...