By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 06, 2021 On March 25, Georgia’s Representative Park Cannon, a Black woman and state senator, was arrested for knocking on the door of the private office of Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, as he and six white men signed a law that effectively suppressed the right of Black … Continue reading America’s New Jim Crowism
By Raffique Shah February 08, 2021 THE outrage expressed by many people over the most recent case of the abduction and murder of a young woman is understandable. We cannot believe that there exist among us depraved people who are capable of committing atrocities, inflicting extreme violence on women with seemingly consummate ease and callous … Continue reading Be careful when you hunt rapists
By Raffique Shah December 28, 2020 For the umpteenth time in past three or more decades, many people in this country that is never short of controversies, engage in sterile debate over an issue that might send people in other countries where there are real problems, into stitches of laughter. What is the hot topic … Continue reading ‘PH’ drivers a necessary nuisance
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe December 09, 2020 It might be providential that Che Lewis’s corpse was paraded around the capital city at the same time that we are talking about the goals of our educational system and the Venezuelan crisis. The simultaneity of these events should make us think where our society is (in … Continue reading An Existentialist Crisis
By Raffique Shah December 06, 2020 Posted: December 08, 2020 The ethnic mix of the Venezuelan population—51 percent are categorised as Mestizo (blend of White/indigenous/Afro), 41 percent European/Middle East /Whites)—ensures that those who are flocking Trinidad more than Tobago are almost exclusively from the first mix. They are the equivalents of the “Reds” in our … Continue reading It’s a topsy-turvy world
By Raffique Shah November 30, 2020 If there is not now on our statute books a law that empowers us to deny entry into Trinidad and Tobago to any alien, man woman or child, more so persons seeking to enter our territory illegally, then Government must move post-haste to rectify such anomaly that foreigners are … Continue reading We Must Control Our Destiny
By Dr Tye Salandy November 13, 2020 I remember when Barack Obama won his first term as US President in 2008. Late that night, I heard a massive noise of joyful screams and applause from the neighbourhood, the moment his victory was confirmed. At that point, I knew we were in for a rough ride. … Continue reading Biden/Harris and the Diverse Faces of US Imperialism
By Raffique Shah November 10, 2020 It was a critical juncture in the history of the United States of America, when its outgoing president, having lied his way to sitting in a position of close-to-supreme power back in 2016, was poised to steal the keys to the Oval office for the second time, in plain … Continue reading Who will lock up the President?
By Dr Selwyn Cudjoe November 02, 2020 I place myself in the category “too scared to believe it even though I wish for a positive outcome”. I refer to Tuesday’s US presidential election and what the polls wish us to believe. In spite of what the polls say about Joe Biden’s lead, I can’t get … Continue reading The racial ghosts of the past
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 05, 2020 When I arrived in the U.S. in 1964, the presidential contest between Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) and Barry Goldwater (Republican) was underway. They disagreed on many issues (for example, the use of the atomic bomb in warfare and U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War), but their major difference … Continue reading President Trump’s Disruptive Power