Archive for June, 2007
Flush, don’t touch
You stop at Curepe Junction to buy doubles and feel the need to relieve yourself, so you go into the nearby ultra-clean public washroom, with its automatic doors, no-touch flushing, electronic paper dispenser, sensor-operated soap, water and hand-drying facilities, music and voice messages, and even toilet seat washer. You are so comfortable that you don’t [...]
Politicians failing the country
OUTSPOKEN Roman Catholic priest Fr Clyde Harvey took a swipe at the country’s politicians yesterday, saying consideration must be given to placing a ‘‘none of the above’’ space in the ballot paper for future General Elections.
Fr Harvey waded into current Trinidad and Tobago politics during his homily at yesterday’s inter-faith service at the Cathedral of [...]
Philippines, Canada online
An Internet search on other countries that had voters’ list online showed that the Philippines had posted its 2004 list of 5.7 million voters on online.
The list was pulled amidst fears of identity theft and protests that personal information was being divulged. However the National Capital Region of the Commission on Elections says that the [...]
Unknown Spy sinks JFK plotters
A CONVICTED drug trafficker, working as a spy for the Joint Terrorist Task Force in New York, was the man responsible for sinking his “partners” in an alleged plot to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at JFK International Airport in New York.
According to the informant who infiltrated the group of Guyanese and Trinidadian [...]
The whole country will be in mourning
IN RECORDED conversations with an FBI informant, Guyanese-born terror suspect Russell De Freitas described the impact he believed an attack on JFK could have on the United States:
“Any time you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States. To hit John F Kennedy, wow… they love John F Kennedy like he’s [...]