By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe September 28, 2020 “The work of the desireless doer can rightly be expected to be better than that of one driven by desire for the fruit.” —The Gita According to Gandhi At the beginning of last week, a disturbing video began to circulate on social media. It shows about a … Continue reading A Plea for Humility & Equanimity
By Vijay Prashad and Érika Ortega-Sanoja August 10, 2020 – venezuelanalysis.com On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Venezuela. Appearing before the committee was U.S. State Department Special Representative Elliott Abrams. Abrams, who has had a long—and controversial—career in the formation of U.S. foreign policy, was assaulted by … Continue reading How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela
By Raffique Shah July 13, 2020 I don’t know why Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar thought it necessary to appeal to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to invite a team of observers from The British Commonwealth and/or CARICOM to witness the conduct of the general election that will take place on August 10. All elections in … Continue reading Much ado about nothing
By A. Hotep July 05, 2020 Some people in this country are intent on shifting the dialogue away from the questionable and seemingly extrajudicial killing of three men by the police in Morvant, which was captured on CCTV footage, to centering discussions on the conduct of black youths in deprived communities. The obfuscation of the … Continue reading Brute Force, Blame and Bigotry: Police Killings in Morvant
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 29, 2020 About one hundred yards north of Whitehall, there is a short street, Maxwell Philip Street, that is located between Prada and Scott streets, in St. Clair, Port of Spain. It is no more than 500 yards long. Although it is located in an affluent part of the … Continue reading Black American Lives Have Always Mattered…
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu June 07, 2020 Ever since they were brought involuntarily and violently from Mother Africa in 1619 to be enslaved on plantations in the United States, enslaved Africans and their descendants have been the victims of Code Noir, Jim Crow laws, Lynch Laws, Ku Klux Klan, the infamous “Three Fifths Clause”, “Grandfather … Continue reading “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired”
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe May 18, 2020 If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. —Abraham Lincoln I thought the expeditious manner in which the Prime Minister and his party handled the coronavirus pandemic rescued their fortunes and gave their supporters reason to believe … Continue reading Young’s tragic blunder
T&T FACES US SANCTIONS – ROWLEY’S DANGEROUS ALLIANCE WITH VENEZUELA CAN NOW DESTROY OUR ECONOMY By Kamla Persad-Bissessar Good morning everyone. It is with serious alarm that I note a report in today’s Trinidad Guardian about the United States probing our country over a Trinidad &Tobago fuel shipment linked to Venezuela. If true, our country’s … Continue reading Kamla Courts Sanctions, Rowley Responds
By Raffique Shah April 06, 2020 When we will have overcome the COVID-19 multi-pronged attack on Trinidad and Tobago, we will face associated problems ranging from the economy under severe stress such as it has never been before, with unemployment at a crisis level, disruption of the education system leaving all stakeholders confused, and possible … Continue reading After crisis food rationing?
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe March 31, 2020 PART 2 In response to my column of three weeks ago, “Black Betrayal,” a critic attacked me in a slanderous manner. Mercifully, the Express deleted the more vitriolic aspects of his original letter. He claimed I invented Aaron St. John to carry on my nefarious agenda. St. … Continue reading Black Betrayal, Or God Don’t Like Ugly