By Raffique Shah May 31, 2021 In the event that you may have just awakened from a Rip shocking it might seem to you, it’s not just T&T; the world is at war…has been for almost one and a half years. Just so you get right, we have already lost more than 400 lives in … Continue reading Departing on arrival day
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe March 15, 2021 From politician to the ordinary farmer, Hutus united to get rid of the ‘cockroaches,’ working together to exterminate their Tutsi friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members. —Kennedy Ndahiro, “Dehumanization: How the Tutsis were reduced to cockroaches, snakes to be killed.” I use to think that the motto … Continue reading The Dangers of Narcissism
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 29, 2020 About one hundred yards north of Whitehall, there is a short street, Maxwell Philip Street, that is located between Prada and Scott streets, in St. Clair, Port of Spain. It is no more than 500 yards long. Although it is located in an affluent part of the … Continue reading Black American Lives Have Always Mattered…
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 13, 2020 “They say the sun will shine for all/But in some people’s world, it doesn’t shine at all./ So much been said, so little been done./ They still killing the people/ And they having their fun” —Bob Marley, “Crisis” PART 3 I have been writing about the plight … Continue reading Black Betrayal (In the Age of the Coronavirus)
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe November 26, 2019 One radio host called my comparison of Sat Maharaj with Martin Luther King “sacrilegious” while a caller to another radio station wondered what had happened to Professor Cudjoe since 2011. “I had admired Professor Cudjoe but now I don’t know what has gone wrong with him. Imagine … Continue reading Sat Maharaj and Martin Luther King
Of Independence, sedition and legislative violence: how elitist laws have damaged the nation By Dr Tye Salandy September 02, 2019 UPDATED: September 03, 2019 Sedition, careful, careful how you talking … hey hey! Sedition, careful, careful whey you walking Incompetent idiots have genuine patriots Always under escort in the sedition court. —The Mighty Sparrow (Sedition) … Continue reading Independence, sedition and legislative violence
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 06, 2019 Last Sunday, four of the five Sunday columnists of this newspaper wrote about the crime problem that confronts the nation. The Sunday Guardian also published a long investigative piece on the subject. On Monday, Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon talked about the pervasiveness of crime and concluded that … Continue reading The Road Make to Walk…
By Dr Kwame Nantambu Published: August 06, 2019 This article was written before August 01, 2019 As Emancipation Day approaches, it is indeed apropos to delineate the economic and political aspects of the abolition of slavery, albeit the European enslavement of African people or MAAFA— the “great disaster.”
By Raffique Shah August 02, 2019 A tragedy of our times is the absolute ignorance of the vast majority of our population of the nation’s history. And for once I cannot blame this void on information technology, on the electronic devices that most young people and many mature ones are glued to, in most instances … Continue reading CLR James: man without honour in his own country
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 15, 2018 “Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods, I am no idle votarist!…Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.” —William Shakespeare,”Timon of Athens” Two weeks ago, I made a case for “reparative justice.” Drawing on “Slavery, Abolition … Continue reading “The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.”