At yesterday’s post-cabinet news conference, Prime Minister Patrick Manning appeared alone to explain why he fired Rowley. Manning said that he fired Dr. Keith Rowley because of unacceptable ‘hooligan behaviour’ at a meeting of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of cabinet, and not because of his corruption allegation. Rowley stated that he was fired … Continue reading Manning: Why I Fired Rowley
By Andre Bagoo Thursday, April 10 2008 T&T Newsday OPPOSITION LEADER Basdeo Panday’s legal problems just got a little worse. More than one year after having his political life revitalised by the quashing of a criminal conviction against him, the Privy Council yesterday paved the way for him to face a retrial on three charges … Continue reading Try Bas Again
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 10, 2008 Over the past two weeks, some of my friends have accused me of or complimented me for going down memory lane. Others have suggested that once the genie is out of the bottle there is really no way to get it back in. They are both correct … Continue reading The Values Imperative
By Stephen Kangal February 14, 2008 The damaging legacy bequeathed by the Barbados Labour Party’s dethroned Ex-Prime Minister, Mr. Owen Arthur in contributing to the turbulence that marred and blemished T&T/Barbados relations for the fourteen years of his Prime Ministership must not be allowed to accompany him unnoticed and unrecorded as he rides into the … Continue reading Arthur’s Legacy on T&T/Barbados Relations
By Nalinee Seelal Wednesday, February 13 2008 newsday.co.tt Crime weary Laventille residents fear their lives and those of their families are in danger and believe gangs will strike back when a lockdown on their community is lifted. “They are afraid of no one, and when the police and soldiers end this exercise and return to … Continue reading ‘We in danger’
Dr. Kwame Nantambu January 16, 2008 As Calypsonians put the final touches on their compositions for C2K8, it is apropos to relegate to the ash heap of TnT’s political history, the notion that has been bandied about by some Calypsonians that as Prime Minister of TnT, George Chambers was “duncy.” The fact of the matter … Continue reading Chambers wasn’t ‘duncy’ after all
By Corey Gilkes January 13, 2008 I really loved the well-written article by former Secretary of State Madeleine (shouldn’t that be Meddlin?) Albright on the Trinidad Express on Friday 11th January. Such hubris, such hypocrisy compressed into twelve paragraphs. It was exactly the sort of historically decontextualised drivel I have come to expect from North … Continue reading On Albright’s “Lost” Aura of Democracy
By Stephen Kangal January 15, 2008 It must be a source of enormous embarrassment to us in T&T that the Manning Administration should spend our taxpayers money to jointly sponsor in collaboration with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf a seminar. It will outline the procedures for the delimitation of … Continue reading Laying Tracks for Bajan Goutis to Run
By Stephen Kangal January 09, 2008 The unfortunate decision of the Speaker, the Honourable Barendra Sinanan to debar unconstitutionally members of the COP wearing their attention-grabbing, artistic logo from attending the second sitting of the House as responsible members of the public gallery to listen to the debate on crime is clearly symptomatic of electoral … Continue reading House Standing Orders Unconstitutional
By Selwyn R. Cudjoe December 31, 2007 I suppose I can say publicly what Selwyn Ryan (See Express, December 23) can say privately and obliquely when he speaks about the specter of the non-representation of twenty five percent of the population and the impending disenfranchisement of Africans in the political process that is likely to … Continue reading Acting in Our Self-Interest