…protests increase Golconda to Pt Fortin highway by $3.5m Sunday, July 8, 2012 Anika Gumbs-Sandiford – guardian.co.tt Residents of Debe and surrounding areas line the M1 Ring Road in Debe with their placards in a show of support for the Point Fortin to Golconda highway yesterday morning. PHOTO: RISHI RAGOONATH Minister of National Security Jack … Continue reading PM, Cabinet knew about demolition
By Raffique Shah July 07, 2012 RARELY do I address the same topic for two consecutive weeks, but I feel compelled, in highly unusual circumstances, to alert the nation to the misadventures of National Security Minister Jack Warner. Last week, like many of my columnist colleagues, I took Warner to task over the way he … Continue reading Cry blood, my beloved country
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 03, 2012 Life in T&T is very funny business. Yo know way yo going; yo don’t know where yo’ likely to reach. The government declares a state of emergency, arrests over 8,000 black young men under the guises that they are/may be criminals. No charges made, no apologies offered … Continue reading Jack’s lawlessness and Corruptibility
By Raffique Shah July 01, 2012 WHAT more must Jack Warner do to prove that he is unfit to be this country’s Minister of National Security? Declare war on Tobago or Venezuela or Barbados? Introduce a death squad to go around executing persons he suspects of being criminals or gangsters? Arrest and detain persons perceived … Continue reading Return of Sheriff Lobo
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu June 29, 2012 The decision by newly-appointed Minister of National Security, Austin Jack Warner to demolish the “Highway Re-route Movement” camp on government land was the right thing to do. The fact of the matter is that since T&T has degenerated into a lawless society, now is the time for a … Continue reading Warner was right – Afri-centric analysis
Shortly before 8:00 PM tonight, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, announced the highly anticipated reshuffle of her administration. Two Ministers were fired and several others either received promotions or less significant portfolios. Most significantly, Jack Warner, has been given the National Security Ministry, replacing Brigadier John Sandy.
By Raffique Shah May 27, 2012 FOR all our boasts about technological advancements we have achieved—”4G smart phones”, “wifi hotspots”, GPS in vehicles and on phones—it is amazing how we remain mired in backwardness when it comes to dealing with fundamental problems. The classic is carnage on the nation’s roads. Last Sunday’s horrendous crash that … Continue reading Backward ever, forward never
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe May 02, 2012 The news flooded the airways and inundated the newspapers: “Vidwatie Newton, the sister of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, traveled first class when she accompanied the PM on her recent trip to India…The total cost of Newton’s travel to India was $233,600” (Express, April 27).
By Stephen Kangal May 01, 2012 Let me categorically state that the printed media especially since 2004 when the TT/Barbados boundary dispute first erupted and counting, has never gotten it right in reporting about our very specialized maritime boundaries matter. They have done a great disservice to T&T. I cannot identify any single journalist past … Continue reading Get it Right Before You Write on TT’s Maritime Boundaries
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 18, 2012 I never thought that Patrick Manning was such a genius and soothsayer, especially when he told us that one could turn ordinary CEPEP managers into captains of national and international industries; that, in fact, they could run corporations worth billions of dollars without flinching; and all that … Continue reading Manning, The Genius