“Friends Will Take You, But Not Bring You Back”
The people we spend our formative years with can influence the person we eventually become.
Ethics
When the Sunnah Comes Home
The full transcript from Friday’s Khutbah by Shaikh Ahmad Kutty, containing some beautiful examples of love and mercy in families. Khutbah – Friday, September 11,…
Churchill Azad Akaloo: When Success Became a Means of Serving Humanity
Churchill Azad Akaloo’s death on the night of September 11th 2026, marks the passing of a Trinidadian businessman whose name became synonymous with Sheik Lisha Ltd.
The Kalimah: A Challenge to Power and a Call to Justice
The kalimah still speaks with extraordinary force to a world searching for fairness, struggling over power, and standing at the threshold of technological possibilities it does not yet fully understand.
From Nerves to New Beginnings: Children’s Book Opens Conversation on Diversity and Acceptance
The story suggests that acceptance does not require people to erase their differences. It requires them to see beyond those differences and recognise the humanity they share.
No Reproach Upon You Today
According to traditional accounts of the Conquest of Mecca by Muslim historians, the Prophet Muhammad addressed his enemies with words echoing Prophet Joseph in the Qur’an: “No reproach shall be upon you today. Go, for you are free.”
Before We Convict One of Our Brightest Jurists
Hold the CCJ accountable, but allow the facts to emerge. When confidence in courts is casually undermined, it is not one judge alone who suffers; the entire architecture of Caribbean justice is put at risk.
The Tel Aviv-Port of Spain Fallacy: Unmasking Zionist Lobbying in Trinidad and Tobago
There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that dresses itself up as scholarship, and Nicholas Jagdeo has perfected it.
Dr Mansoor Ibrahim: A Life of Work, Method and Discipline
The University of St Andrews has published a remarkable tribute to Dr Mansoor Ibrahim (MB ChB 1966), tracing his extraordinary journey from “Behind the Bridge” in east Port of Spain
On Pioneers, Sacrifice, and the Fragility of Memory
“You should voluntarily resign. You’ve been in leadership for too long. Step aside and give us a chance.”