· November, 2006

Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from November, 2006

Trinidad & Tobago: Corporate Social Responsibility

  8 November 2006

Karel McIntosh provides an overview of corporate social responsibility in the Trinidad and Tobago context. And Francomenz asserts that “It’s sad that we may have to actually legislate magnanimity in order for businesses to understand the weight of their corporate responsibility, but in a climate where industry makes no apologies...

Trinidad & Tobago: The responsible executive

  7 November 2006

“‘Corporate’ and ‘responsibility’ involve a contradiction in terms, of course, but I guess there's no harm in trying to imagine what a progressive corporate boss might do (as opposed to say), should such a creature exist,” writes Trinidad blogger Jeremy Taylor in the preamble to “The Responsible Executive's Manifesto”.

Trinidad & Tobago: Cricket, breathalysers and crime

  6 November 2006

The Manicou offers his two cents on the West Indies cricket team's defeat in the ICC Champions Trophy, Trinidad and Tobago's proposed breathalyser law and observes that “murder in Trinidad has no modus operandi.” And crime comes a bit too close to home for Karen Walrond as well.

Trinidad & Tobago: DNA testing

  2 November 2006

Trinidad and Tobago's police comply promptly with a request from their London counterparts for a DNA sample. Why, wonders the Modest Goddess, didn't they act with the same promptness in connection with DNA testing for a now infamous local case involving the murder of a minor?

Trinidad & Tobago: Child abuse

  1 November 2006

The Manicou expresses outrage and disbelief at the circumstances surrounding the latest murder of a minor in Trinidad.