Driving south from Port of Spain along the Uriah Butler highway, you will see sugar, citrus and rice fields, maybe a few buffalypso (buffaloes which have been selectively bred for meat), and Hindu temples and mosques.

Deputy Youth and Sports Minister M Saravanan put his foot down on a suggestion mooted yesterday by a Youth Parliament member to legalise the use of marijuana, also known as ganja, in the country.

Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

Hilloa, good fellow, quoth he, in a jovial voice, who art thou that struttest in such gay feathers?