DR ERROL N BENJAMIN "SARAM NA BA” used to be the terse reprimand of my agee (grandmother), to mean rhetorically “that I had no shame," whenever I cheated my smaller sister of the sweets that she had brought from the temple. In response as a child, I often giggled and walked away with little sense
THE EDITOR: Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar would seek to be a “glass” to Brutus for him to better understand his “passions of some difference” about Caesar’s emerging tyranny which would eventually lead to Brutus’s participation in Caesar’s assassination: “And since you cannot see yourself /So well as by reflection/I your glass will modestly discover
DR ERROL BENJAMIN THE CONSTRUCTION of the new Manzanilla bypass so soon after the ravaging floods is a remarkable achievement and the Minister of Works should be given plaudits for it. And the people of that community did – no politics, no nothing, just a sincere appreciation for a service which made an important difference
Obviously, the 600-plus murders, increasing home invasions, illegal firearms and gangs, in particular, are pushing public fears infectiously to new levels. Has the country passed the tipping point? Even PM Dr Keith Rowley seems to wonder. With obvious desperation and repeated hopes, he plans to reset things by calling “national consultations on crime.” Former senior
THE EDITOR: Jensen Rushton, in a letter in the December 16 Newsday, headlined “Benjamin fails to follow his own principles" as writer of a textbook on critical thinking, has responded to my December 12 article entitled “A literate population.” First let me state that the theme of my article, which was that governmental complacency about