By Dr Kwame Nantambu December 24, 2021 As the US House of Representatives Select Committee continues to issue subpoenas to former president Donald John Trump’s advisers and allies in regard to the endemic dynamics of the historic, violent insurrection on the nation’s capital on January 6; plus the stark legal reality that on November 12, … Continue reading Exposing the danger of cult leaders
By Raffique Shah November 15, 2021 If Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were around today, he would be simmering in glory and bursting with pride as he watched the modern world finally come to embrace his lunatic rants that passed for an ideology, namely Nazism, which extolled the supremacy of the Aryan race, namely pure-bred white … Continue reading Fear of Stupidity
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 18, 2021 When the Opposition gave notice last week that it intended to file a vote of no confidence in Faris Al-Rawi, it was another sequel in an ongoing battle to get rid of one of the most inefficient attorneys general our country has ever known. After he filed … Continue reading Has the People’s Lawyer lost his way?
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 04, 2021 I was trying my best to stay out of de commess until someone sent me a Facebook post that read: “That’s Faris’s Porsche that Roger has been driving around over the past two years.” The post also showed a photograph of the SUV number plate attached as … Continue reading Eroding Public Confidence in Our Institutions
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe September 27, 2021 “All advanced legal systems condemn as criminal the sorts of conduct described in the Anglo-American law as treason, murder, aggravated assault, thievery, robbery, burglary, and rape.” —Encyclopedia Britannica I always wonder why an inefficient government demands that its citizens be efficient when it represents the epitome of … Continue reading Criminalizing Civil Infractions
By Raffique Shah September 27, 2021 Last Sunday, dealing with the potential I saw in many of the young players who competed in the recently-concluded CPL T-20 cricket tournament, I introduced the issue of race in sports as highlighted by several Black American athletes who used the stage of the Mexico City Olympics in 1968 … Continue reading Giant leap by a Black man
By Birdie McClean September 17, 2021 Nicki Minaj put out a tweet on Tuesday that caused a firestorm of reaction and put Trinidad smack down center of the global news. This is what she tweeted. “My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. … Continue reading Nicki Minaj drops the ball on Covid-19
How about some accountability for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen? By Philip Giraldi August 24, 2021 – unz.com If you want to know how the United States wound up with “government by stupid” one need only look no farther than some of the recent propaganda put out by members of Congress, senior military officers … Continue reading The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them
By Stephen Kangal July 25, 2021 The ill-advised, overtly hurried and premature introduction into Parliament of the two completely new Bills on June 28 last on the long-festering granting of autonomy/self-governance to Tobago prior to and without conducting the requisite inter-active consultations with the Tobago constituency of principal stakeholders by the PNM was a deliberate, … Continue reading PNM’s Political Strategy To Deny Tobago Self-Governance
By Stephen Kangal, CARONI July 19, 2021 While hampers are in high demand and par for the course of alleviating abject poverty today, Tobago after twenty-five years of civilised persistence for attaining genuine self-government and functional autonomy (2018 Bill) is being presented with a misleading hamper of Bills even though Tobago is politically well-endowed. Tobagonians … Continue reading Tobago Does Not Need this Self Government Bills Hamper