By Dr, Selwyn R. Cudjoe May 08, 2017 Villers-Cotterets, a small town in France, is about 75 kilometres north of Paris. On Sunday last, after having arrived at Gare du Nord, the main railway station in France, I traveled through the Retz forest and lush fields yellowed by the colza (canola) flowers on my way … Continue reading En Marche! (On the move!)
By Raffique Shah May 06, 2017 “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world; The blood-dimmed tide is loosed; and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are … Continue reading The centre must hold
By Stephen Kangal April 25, 2017 Taking into account that the former late PM Manning’s 2009 Cabinet had a clear unwavering philosophy and intention that both Acts No 17 and 18 relating to the Property Tax, hurriedly passed without due consultations and proclaimed by 31st December 2009 would be strictly and rigidly implemented at the … Continue reading Grounds Invalidating The Current Property Tax Legislation
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 18, 2017 PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 Dr. Rudranath Capildeo, Dr. Eric Williams’s underground companion, tried to console him when he heard about the massive giveaway of the Chaguaramas lands. Dr. Williams informed him it was his party, the United National Congress under … Continue reading The Great Betrayal – Part 2
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 10, 2017 PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 – PART 4 I don’t know where Keith Rowley, Colm Imbert, Stuart Young, Rohan Sinanan, Kazin Hosein, Faris Al-Rawi, Camile Regis-Robinson, Franklin Khan and Fitzgerald Hines were on April 22, 1960, but I was in Woodford Square when Dr. … Continue reading The Great Betrayal – Part 1
By Stephen Kangal April 05, 2017 When the The Honourable Attorney General Faris Al Rawi tabled for approval by the House the Report of the EBC/Presidential Draft Order to legalise the package of measures for the holding of the THA Elections in January 2017 citizens saw that a 48,000 THA electorate albeit many absentees were … Continue reading Curbing The Tobagonian Apetite for Governance
By Raffique Shah April 01, 2017 Permit me to quote from a column I wrote in June last year. It is the first time I’m taking this liberty, but I feel compelled to so do, and I think readers will understand why as I proceed. I wrote then, “When constitutionally-independent institutions in the country seem … Continue reading Oh, what a country!
By Stephen Kangal March 22, 2017 All Caribbean peoples living at home and in the diaspora will exult with their mainland Guyanese counterparts over the successful 100,000 bpd discoveries of oil by Exxon Mobil off-shore of Guyana. The sub-regional oil balance will be tilted in favour of Guyana. T&T’s 100-year exploitation of oil and the … Continue reading Guyana on the Brink of an Oil Bonanza
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe March 20, 2017 This is not a criticism against Edmund Dillon, Minister of National Security, or the present government. It is more an attempt to place a finger on what the recent murders are doing to our national psyche, how they are affecting our emotional state and damaging our self-conception.
By Stephen Kangal March 02, 2017 The Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley in his usual unrehearsed statement made in the House on Friday 23 February during the debate of the final FATCA sitting raises a number of policy decisions the chief amongst which is whether his Government proposes to liquidate and close our foreign missions … Continue reading Will Lobbyists Now Replace TT Diplomats in the USA?