Elevated trivia -- October 23, 2005
Trivia are pieces of information or concerns that are of little or no importance to anyone though particular trivia may be interesting to different people. Because they are information, they will occupy our time and attention every now and then, but they will give way - perhaps I should say 'should give way' - easily to demonstrably more important concerns.
What about a budget to create wealth? -- October 09, 2005
Quick, tell me: What is there in the budget to create wealth for the country? More disposable income in people's accounts? Is that it? No ideas for the diversification of the economy? No ideas about how people can move from saving to wealth creation?
Time to revise the national anthem -- September 27, 2005
"Sorry, but our national anthem is a mess of errors, and nobody has pointed out and analysed those errors more than Denis Solomon, newspaper columnist and former UWI lecturer in French and Linguistics. Solomon identifies three grammatical errors in the anthem and even regards the whole of it as 'literary nonsense'.
The coming anarchy -- September 18, 2005
"An Arima father of two accused of being one of the persons responsible for the shooting death of a girl outside the Simple Song Panyard on the night of August 30 last month was shot five times at 11.45 am on Wednesday. Luther King, a sanitation worker at the Arima Borough Corporation was shot in full view of his daughter Victoria, 11, and his mother, Marilyn. He was rushed to the Port of Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival."
The war against children -- September 15, 2005
I do not believe in corporal punishment of children, and one of my main reasons is that there are superior alternatives to it - like hugs and kisses; rational understanding of offensive child behaviour and consequent non-violent correction; and development of the child's ability to reason and understand right and wrong.
Not supposed to happen? -- September 11, 2005
It is an uncomfortable truth that humans are a flawed species, and perhaps the greatest flaw is that we die as individuals, often very tragically. I say 'perhaps' because as a species we are great at self-renewal through procreation.
In Search of Boundaries -- August 21, 2005
I cannot honestly say that I understand the kinds of violent crime taking place in Trinidad and (God help us!) Tobago today or the frequency with which they take place. Every day, it seems, there is a murder, and many of the murders are not simply single-shot or single-blow affairs but are executed with multiple strikes.
Party problems re the next elections -- August 14, 2005
It's two years before general elections are due - a very long time in politics - but two problems in particular are so besetting the incumbent PNM administration that it would be no surprise if PM Manning were to call the elections prematurely. The problems are runaway food prices and unstoppable violent crime, especially kidnapping and murder.
Archives
Copyright © Dr.Winford James
Site Designed and maintained By: Trinicenter.com.
