By Raffique Shah June 22, 2014 Disclosure: I am a parliamentary pensioner. I receive the princely sum of $3,000 a month. In 1976, I was elected Member of Parliament for the Siparia constituency, and I served for five unremarkable years. When I look back at my life, my achievements, my contributions to country, I easily … Continue reading Heartless Parliamentarians
Official statement from: Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago June 12th 2014 PM: No action against Minister Anil Roberts at this time There has been a clamour in some quarters for me to have taken immediate action in relation to allegations made against Minister of Sport, Anil Roberts.
By Rachael Espinet and Clint Chan Tack May 21, 2014 – newsday.co.tt IN a surprising turn of events yesterday former Justice Minister Herbert Volney apologised to Attorney General (AG) Anand Ramlogan for alleging that he was responsible, in any way, for the early proclamation of Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act … Continue reading Volney on Section 34: I Was Wrong
By Nalinee Seelal Monday, May 5 2014 – newsday.co.tt AS PROMINENT Senior Counsel, Dana Seetahal, became a statistic in the country’s continuing grim murderous run yesterday, her assassination has triggered an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) for today and the posting of a million dollar reward for her killers, while police are … Continue reading ASSASSINATED
By Iniko Ujaama April 24, 2014 – africaspeaks.com/reasoning I watched the video of the Trinidadian parent who recently posted the video of herself beating her daughter over posting some ‘sexy’ pics on facebook and the subsequent video of her two daughters(an elder sister and the one beaten) explaining away and justifying the mother’s actions.
By Raffique Shah April 06, 2014 The cavalier manner in which certain senior officials at First Citizens responded to the legitimate concerns of citizens over aspects of the bank’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) exposed them as not knowing their own history, or caring about public trust that is critical to the success and survival of … Continue reading Patriots built bank
By Raffique Shah March 23, 2014 If we think that the top-to-bottom lawlessness and overpowering crime that besiege the country today are portents of hopelessness in tomorrow, think again. It will be much worse. Those who will live here for the next 50 or 80 years (I will be long gone, thankfully) should be afraid…very … Continue reading Hurtling to self-destruction
By Stephen Kangal February 06, 2013 While the Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development Dr the Honourable Bhoe Tiwari is romanticizing in the spills, drills and thrills of the imagination at the expense of not giving his ministerial attention to the issues at the ground level relating to the protection and conservation of our fertile … Continue reading From Cabbage Patch to Concrete Jungle
By Raffique Shah January 25, 2014 In my column last week, in recounting the legal encounters between the late Karl Hudson-Phillips and the progressive forces during the events of 1970, I made a serious omission that I now seek to rectify. I mentioned the condonation pleas that set the mutinous soldiers free—their genesis and the … Continue reading Three eminent jurists
By Stephen Kangal January 24, 2014 Foreign Minister, the Honourable Winston Dookeran posits that were the T&T Consulate in New York to continue to apply to the State Department for the granting of an A2 US Visa on behalf of a member of its locally recruited staff (LRS), that would “breaking US law…” Well the … Continue reading How is applying for an A2 Visa Breaking US Law?