By Raffique Shah October 17, 2022 To think that once upon a time, many years ago, I actually considered pursuing law as a profession. Naïve, idealist I, would have been torn apart by the dogs of law, drawn and quartered by the merchants of justice, or, who knows, I might have succumbed to the practitioners’ … Continue reading Stark staring mad
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 10, 2022 PART II The Tacarigua Village Council was inaugurated on May 23, 1946. Vernon Scott, the principal of Tacarigua EC School, was the first president of the council. Since then, a long line of villagers presided over the council and worked tirelessly, without pay, to keep the centre … Continue reading Out of the cane fields of Tacarigua
An Address to the Trinidad & Tobago Association of Washington, D.C., October 2, 2022 by Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe I am pleased that your president, Nigel Scott, has invited me to address you on the 46th Anniversary of our Republic even though I prefer to see the evolution of our political independent life beginning in … Continue reading Celebrating the 46th Anniversary of the Republic Day, T&T
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu September 03, 2022 In 2008, President Vladimirr Putin of Russia invaded Georgia. In 2014, he repeated military history by invading Crimea. Hence, it need occasion no great surprise that on 24 February 2022, the Russian President Putin repeated military history one more time by his unprovoked, illegal invasion of Ukraine. President … Continue reading Analyzing Putin’s military aggression
By Raffique Shah August 22, 2022 A few weeks ago, my cousin Susheela forwarded to me an interesting piece of Internet trivia that was anything but trivial. The author had given that generations in recorded history had lived through the most exciting period, based on facts cited, that people now in their 60s and 70s, … Continue reading Ten thousand-gun salute
By Raffique Shah July 25, 2022 Nothing defined the great dividing line in this country the way the Law Association lawyers’ motion to have Attorney General Reginald Armour resign from office did when it came before the legal fraternity two weeks ago. As people with an iota of common sense will have noted, while there … Continue reading Circling like corbeaux
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 04, 2022 We must never forget that there is something within human nature that can respond to goodness, that man is not totally depraved; to put it in theological terms, the image of God is never totally gone. —Martin Luther King, Jr, A Testament of Hope PART II I … Continue reading The politics of redemption
By Raffique Shah July 04, 2022 We are not the most crime-ridden country in the world, notwithstanding claims to that effect by organisations and individuals that manipulate raw data from dubious sources so that they can support whatever theory or argument their authors wish to pursue. For example, there are academics and criminologists who rely … Continue reading Power of the gun
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe May 24, 2022 Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. Even the restraints imposed in the training of men and children are restraints that will in the end make greater freedom possible. —WEB Du Bois, John Brown When we voted for the PNM in 2015, we … Continue reading If the priest could play…
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe May 16, 2022 PART II “Trade Union Movement in Trinidad owes Mr Rienzi a great debt of gratitude and particularly the Oil and Sugar Unions which he pioneered until he left for the Civil Service.” —John Rojas, former Leader of the OWTU Although Adrian Cola Rienzi struggled to achieve self-government … Continue reading A leader of destiny