By Lee Salter December 14th 2009 – Venezuelanalysis.com Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Researchers at the University of the West of England, UK, have exposed ongoing and systematic bias in the BBC’s news reporting on Venezuela. Dr Lee Salter and Dr Dave Weltman analysed ten years of BBC reports on Venezuela since the first … Continue reading A Decade of Propaganda? The BBC’s Reporting of Venezuela.
By Tony Fraser December 16, 2009 Ramesh Maharaj is correct in saying that the outcome of the January internal elections of the United National Congress (UNC) will determine the future political prospects of the party. Indeed, to take that projection further along the road of rep-resentative politics, the out come will also determine the short-term … Continue reading Making the right choice for party and country
By Raffique Shah December 13, 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog I WISH I could take comfort in the marginal drop in the number of murders this year when compared with last year, the way Acting Commissioner James Philbert does. At a recent year-end function, (Acting) Assistant Commissioner Gilbert Reyes sought to assure citizens that soon we shall not … Continue reading Crime shift from urban to rural districts
By Stephen Kangal December 13, 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog I am now convinced that the two draconian property tax bills No 23 and 24 of 2009 must receive the requisite constitutional majority before they can be legitimately passed in the House of Representatives on Friday 18 December without public input. These bills are clearly being introduced in … Continue reading Property Tax Bills Need Constitutional Majority
By Ras Tyehimba December 09, 2009 Trinidad and Tobago recently hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2009 under the theme “partnering for a more equitable and sustainable future”. Fifty-three leaders of countries, formerly direct colonies, gathered in Port of Spain, under the symbolic leadership of Queen Elizabeth II. The general responses to the … Continue reading CHOGM’s Shameful Legacy
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog The Challenge of Our Time 1. Climate change is the predominant global challenge. We convened a Special Session on Climate Change in Port of Spain to discuss our profound concern about the undisputed threat that climate change poses to the security, prosperity, economic and social development of our people. … Continue reading Port of Spain Climate Change Consensus: The Commonwealth Climate Change Declaration
By Stephen Gowans November 03, 2009 – what’s left Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog It has become standard practice in many parts of the world for opposition candidates to decry as fraudulent election results that favor the incumbent. Charges of vote fraud are routinely levelled against governing parties that win elections contested by opposition … Continue reading When electoral fraud is met by congratulations
By Tim Collard November 2nd, 2009 – telegraph.co.uk Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Yesterday The Observer reported an alarming row over a TV talent contest in Shanghai. One of the leading contestants, a 20-year-old girl named Lou Jing (pronounced Low not Loo), has attracted enormous opprobrium from all over the country. Some of the … Continue reading Are the Chinese racist?
Newsday’s Editorial Tuesday, October 6 2009 LAST Friday’s freezing of the Commission of Inquiry into Udecott until the High Court hears Udecott’s case for judicial review on February 8, 2010 may look like a bolt out of the blue, but to seasoned observers it should come as no surprise. While on the surface there is … Continue reading Derailing Uff
By Stephen Kangal September 23, 2009 Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog The Caroni Assembly of Villagers during their meeting held on Tuesday evening at the Vishnu Boys College in Caroni condemned the proposed high level of property tax as being unprecedented, unduly harsh and oppressive in the taxation annals of T&T. It was held … Continue reading Caroni Villagers Condemn Property Tax and Call for its Withdrawal