Noble Philip

“There is a tremendous difference between living in a place and belonging to it and feeling your destiny is irrevocably bound up in the life and destiny of that place.”

“There was a naughty boy/ And a naughty boy was he,/ He ran away to Scotland/ The people for to see–/ Then he found/ That the ground/ Was as hard,/ That a yard/ Was as long…”

As primary school children, we would have learnt a poem by John Keats. “There was a naughty boy/ And

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher.

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” Karl Popper, Austri

“Budget 2026 is a declaration that Trinidad and Tobago is back on course... When UNC wins, everybody

“Budget 2026 is a declaration that Trinidad and Tobago is back on course… When UNC wins, everybody wins!” Minister of Finance, Davendranath Tancoo.

Our honourable Prime Minister, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar, decided to mount a tiger to get access to the promised riches of the Dragon.

This week, two quotes came to mind as I read the local newspapers. The first was from Benjamin Frank

This week, two quotes came to mind as I read the local newspapers. The first was from Benjamin Franklin, who was accused of treason (by leaking letters) in 1774. These letters criticised the colonial rebels even though it was clear that his own loyalties were to the American colonies.