By Stephen Kangal July 01, 2021 The work and deliberations of the Committee of the Whole on the two Tobago Self Government Bills have been adjourned sine die. The PMTT has indicated that they may not come back to the House before September and may even lapse by December. This is the low measure of … Continue reading Time to heal, reconcile and conciliate
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 29, 2021 “Nations seldom listen to advice from individuals, however reasonable. They are taught less by theories than by facts and events.” —Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Last week I commended President Joseph Biden for signing into law a bill that made June 19 a national holiday to … Continue reading A Luta Continua
By Dr Selwyn R, Cudjoe June 15, 2021 A few days ago the Attorney General asked the Parliament to approve a supplementary vote of $118.9 million for his ministry. Barataria/San Juan MP Saddam Hosein asked (perhaps pleaded is a better word) how much money the lawyers (120 local and nine foreign) were being paid and … Continue reading Digging Out We Eye in Broad Daylight
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 07, 2021 “Get the niggers,” was their slogan, / “Kill them, burn them, set the pace. / Let them know that we are white men, / Teach them how to keep their place.” —A. J. Smitherman, “The Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre” (1922) I had just left Harvard University … Continue reading White Brutality Against Black and Brown People
Germany calls atrocities ‘genocide’ but omits the words ‘reparations’ or ‘compensation’ from a joint statement By Philip Oltermann, in Berlin May 28, 2021 – theguardian.com Germany has to agreed to pay Namibia €1.1bn (£940m) as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century, in what Angela Merkel’s government says amounts … Continue reading Germany recognises colonial ‘genocide’ in Namibia
By Raffique Shah May 24, 2021 An amazing contradiction that is embedded in the dissemination of information via technology that seems to evolve at a dizzying pace is how easy it is to fool massive numbers of people into believing glaring lies. Disinformation, a craft that is as old as civilisation itself, which has been … Continue reading Respect conventions of war
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe May 17, 2021 “We need to solve our problems without causing a civil war that can be a danger to our existence.” —President Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel In 1963, Martin Luther King was imprisoned in a Birmingham jail for leading a nonviolent demonstration against American segregation. As he sat … Continue reading Palestinian Lives Matter
By Raffique Shah May 17, 2021 As the spike in Covid-related infections and deaths rocketed almost exponentially over the past three weeks or so leaving many citizens stunned, people who sought guidance and leadership from politicians were assaulted with a cacophony of discordant notes that sounded like the braying of a pack of ancient jackasses. … Continue reading Politicians lying, people dying
By Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 19, 2021 This week we will know the fate of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck, an act that led to his death. It was a crime that inflamed the sensibilities of many people around the world, especially those people who have fought … Continue reading The Gaslighting of America
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 13, 2021 I left Trinidad and Tobago on March 16, 2020, a few days before the borders were closed to citizens and visitors alike. I was on the verge of departing for a ten-day visit to India, at the invitation of the Indian government as a part of its … Continue reading Opening the borders