GOPAUL ARE MY FRIENDS By Darcel Choy May 18, 2011 – newsday.co.tt Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday said the owners of the house she stayed at on Maraj Street in Pasea, Tunapuna, during and after last year’s general election, were her friends. “We are not blood relatives, we are not related by blood, not by … Continue reading PM admits staying in house owned by NP favoured contractor
By Andre Bagoo May 14 2011 – newsday.co.tt PARLIAMENT’S disciplinary committee has found that a case of contempt has been made out against San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning in relation to statements he made in Parliament about a house belonging to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar back in November. In a report tabled in Parliament … Continue reading House Committee: Manning in contempt
Newsday Editorial May 2 2011 – newsday.co.tt It is to be sincerely hoped that the Government will stand firm in the decision to put an end to the illegal occupation of State lands for whatever purpose. This newspaper’s lead story yesterday gave another side, indeed food for thought, of the now highly publicised bulldozing of … Continue reading Government must stand firm
Newsday Editorial May 1 2011 – newsday.co.tt The recent kidnapping for ransom of a citizen of China who owned and operated a restaurant at St Helena has brought to the fore, once again, the question of illegal immigrants living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking in Senate recently, Independent Senator Rolph Balgobin raised this … Continue reading Strangers in our land
By Raffique Shah April 30, 2011 WHEN one sees the insensitivity—one might even say insanity—of persons who authorised and executed the destruction of food and root crops on three parcels of state land, one wonders what the hell is going on in this country. Successive governments, the incumbents included, have proclaimed their intent to make … Continue reading Agrarian Atrocity
Newsday Editorial April 28 2011 – newsday.co.tt Authorities may have followed the letter of the law in the eviction of squatters illegally farming State lands at Mausica Road, D’Abadie, but officials might have used a defter touch. We agree that the D’Abadie farmers were legally obliged to vacate the lands, but this problem stretched back … Continue reading Tragic waste
By Raffique Shah April 23, 2011 FORTY-ONE years ago, almost to the week, tens of thousands of mainly idealistic young people thought we had killed and buried the “race bogey” in this cussed country. We had grown up knowing that race-tension lay beneath the veneer of peaceful co-existence that those in authority had proclaimed. Too … Continue reading A full circle
By Stephen Kangal April 20, 2011 The Police Service is singularly the most unique and powerful institution of the state. The establishment of that service cannot be honestly and usefully compared with and justified by the ethnic composition of the establishment of any other public and private sector institution. At the same time the entry … Continue reading Police Service Is Unique and Powerful
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu April 19, 2011 While the People’s Partnership (PP) government’s National Mentoring Programme should be widely lauded, much more needs to be done/analyzed in order to confront and deal with the ubiquitous “criminal gang culture” in T&T. The fact of the matter is that the proclivity to commit crime among this country’s … Continue reading Mentoring T&T’s Youths
By Gerry Kangalee (NWU National Education and Research Officer) April 12, 2011 The National Workers’ Union (NWU) condemns without qualification the acceptance by the President and Executive of the Public Services Association (PSA) of the 5% wage offer of the Government. The situation smells to high heaven and is quite rightly being labelled as a … Continue reading NWU Condemns Signing of 5% Deal