Things are not getting better for those marginalised in our society. People laid off applying for government grants promised by the Prime Minister before the election are still having trouble getting them. Restaurants and fast-food places are still only open for those able to line up and take away, if they keep their distance lining […]
Pandemics do not come properly one at a time, as they should if they were well-behaved. This is not flu season in the tropics, although the mimic men who need to find something to say are picking up the northern hemisphere statistics and making specious comments straight out of the Toronto Star beginning with: “As […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on December 15th 2019. My basic discipline in University was Philosophy …Everything that human relationships touches on is based on a philosophy of one sort or another. The Industrial Court, for example, was based on the philosophy clearly enunciated by its first President, Sir Isaac Hyatali, who , […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on December 1st 2019. Confusion has greeted reports that appeared in most of the daily papers last week about the interpretation of an award delivered by the industrial Court in Complaint no. GSD-IRO 36 of 2018 between OWTU and Trinidad Cement Ltd.. It happens from time to time […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on November 24th 2019. Family firms are fascinating, unlike what economists have been saying for years, family firms from start-up to medium sized are often better able to survive economic downturns than the large public owned ones. Of course, history tells us that economists, like weather forecasters, are […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on November 17th 2019. The handling of mental illness in the workplace is an issue that has not been formally or specifically addressed in T&T. Unlike physical illness which has legislative coverage under the Minimum Wages Act, mental illness, which is frequently the precursor to the physical and cannot […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on November 10th 2019. Have you noticed the evolution in commerce lately? In many cultures, time is not regarded as something successive, but as a circular phenomenon. Although the conventional European concept of history is sequential – that time is linear, just one thing after another until you […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on November 3rd 2019. The conventional belief in sociology used to be that it takes a whole generation for patterns of social or cultural behaviour to change. The rule of thumb definition of generation was 15 years. In this Axial age we are going through time seems to […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on October 27th 2019. In Trinidad & Tobago ‘s Industrial Relations system ”Recognition “ resembles what used to be referred to as “Plighting your troth” Which was promising to enter into and stay in a contractual relationship with another in which both would take responsibility for those under […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on October 20th 2019. On one of my earliest visits to Mayaro, many years ago, I was introduced to a soucouyant. Well, to be honest, I was sitting on the back steps at night, and what I saw was what appeared to be a ball of light swirling through […]
