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The Closure of Caroni (1975) Limited

Published on May 19, 2013 in Food, General T&T, Indian, Labour, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics and UNC. 2 Comments Tags: Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Basdeo Panday, Caroni Ltd, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, T&T Govt, UNC.

Politics before food

Sugar and Energy Festival Street Parade – October 09, 2005

By Andre Bagoo
May 18 2013 – newsday.co.tt

THE CLOSURE of Caroni (1975) Limited and consequent devastating impact on the agriculture sector and TT’s food security, may be directly linked to political considerations surrounding the then PNM government’s fear of a repeat of the 18-18 general election deadlock of 2001, Tourism Minister Stephen Cadiz said yesterday.
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THA heads in troubling direction

Published on March 1, 2013 in General T&T, Labour, Media, Opposition Party, PNM, Politics, THA and Tobago. 6 Comments Tags: Abuse, Guardian, Politics.

Trinidad Guardian
March 01, 2013 – guardian.co.tt

There is great cause for concern over the news that the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) plans to appoint former secretary of finance and enterprise development Dr Anselm London as a senior consultant in his former division, which is now headed by the recently elected Joel Jack.

Dr London, a man of advanced age, who stepped down ahead of January’s THA election after serving in the position for more than 11 years, is the cousin of Chief Secretary Orville London. That alone raises questions and is generating considerable discomfort.
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Joe Young: last man standing

Published on October 7, 2012 in General T&T, International, Labour and USA. 8 Comments Tags: Joe Young, Raffique Shah, USA.

By Raffique Shah
October 07, 2012

LAST Tuesday, one of this country’s great labour leaders and patriots, Joe Young, made his exit from life. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, as this gentle giant was hurried to some morgue, unmarked and indistinguishable from others. Not that he would have wanted otherwise. It was his final interaction with the ordinary man with whom he lived and mingled freely, for whom he fought many a battle. At age 80, Joe must have endured more than he could in this cussed country that he so loved. He was ready to join his ancestors, to re-link with old comrades.
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$58B Budget, TT’s Largest Ever

Published on October 2, 2012 in Business, Crime in T&T, Finance, General T&T, Labour, Law, Media, Parliament, People's Partnership, Politics and Security. 5 Comments Tags: Budget, Budget 2012, Crime in T&T, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Larry Howai, Politics, T&T Govt.

Finance and Economy Minister Larry Howai

By Clint Chan Tack
October 02, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

PEOPLE who drive vehicles fueled by premium gasolene will pay higher prices at the pump from today. A wide range of hefty tax increases was imposed on the local gaming industry as of yesterday and land and building taxes will return.

However orphans, retirees, special reserve police officers and persons involved in home construction are just some groups in society who will benefit from the country’s largest ever budget which Finance and Economy Minister Larry Howai presented in the House of Representatives yesterday.
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PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Statement on Proclaimation of Section 34

Published on September 20, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Labour, Law, Media, Opposition Party, Parliament, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Security and UNC. 26 Comments Tags: Abuse, Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Crime in T&T, Ishwar Galbaransingh, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Piarco corruption, Politics, Raffique Shah, Steve Ferguson, T&T Govt.

September 20, 2012

My fellow citizens, much has been commented and reported upon the Administration of Justice (Indictable Offences) Act 201 and the proclamation of Section 34. I chose to remain silent on the matter since any premature pronouncement could have been deemed injudicious and appear to influence the outcome of my own investigations and examination of the issue.
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Question of origins and Indian Indentureship: Updated

Published on September 12, 2012 in Africa, China, Culture, General T&T, Indian, Labour, Race and Identity and Racism Watch. 4 Comments Tags: Indentureship, Kwame Nantambu.

By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
September 12, 2012

In the aftermath of the celebration of Indian Arrival Day on 30 May 2011 in T&T, this article focuses on certain origins and the historical dynamics of Indian Arrival. These origins include the Asian-Chinese Dynasty, “Ganges” river, Indian originality and the label “Indentured Servants.”
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God will not help the stupid

Published on September 9, 2012 in Business, General T&T and Labour. 1 Comment Tags: Ancel Roget, OWTU, Petrotrin, Raffique Shah, Strike.

By Raffique Shah
September 09, 2012

AS ironical and comical as it may seem, the one word that drives the fear of God into the average Trini, is “gas”.

Yes, you read right—gas! I know the more enlightened in the country might think that Shah finally flipped his lid…he gone off. After all, if anything, for the sake of country, we need more gas.
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No compensation for slaves

Published on August 29, 2012 in Africa, Business, Education, General T&T, Indian, Labour, Race and Identity and Racism Watch. 37 Comments Tags: Abuse, African.

By George Alleyne
August 29, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

The argument has often been put forward by politicians and would be politicians that persons of Indian descent own a far greater degree of property in Trinidad than people of African descent, because they had saved and used their money wisely.

It is an attempt to create misunderstanding between the two major ethnic groups. What led to today’s disparity in land ownership is well documented and rooted in Trinidad’s colonial past. The end of slavery in 1838 and the movement by freed slaves to urban and suburban areas and away from the sugar estates, with which they had for so long identified with their suffering, meant that the sugar planters had to source new labour.
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Memories of another era

Published on July 15, 2012 in General T&T and Labour. 7 Comments Tags: Boyd "Baykay" Roberts, Raffique Shah.

By Raffique Shah
July 14, 2012

LAST week, memories of another day, another time, another Trinidad and Tobago swirled through my mind. It happened over several days as many of us who grew up in the villages that make up what I call “Greater Freeport” gathered to pay our final respects to an elder, Boyd “Baykay” Roberts. Baykay was a contemporary of my long-deceased father Haniff, and a close friend of my deceased uncles, all of them sugar workers, ordinary people, barely literate, but wise in the ways of the world.
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Politics and Promotions in the Cabinet Re-Shuffle

Published on June 27, 2012 in General T&T, Labour, Parliament, People's Partnership, Politics and Security. 2 Comments Tags: Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, T&T Govt.

By Stephen Kangal
June 27, 2012

The Cabinet reshuffle, dubbed the new “pan- Cabinet”, would appear to be engineered, driven and tuned exclusively by the politics of consolidation, internal cohesiveness and ministerial promotion/demotion rather than enhancing performance in the post-MSJ era. It is a case of creating some over-lapping and ill-defined courses for horses while earning a six-month respite from the rising tide of adverse media reviews and infrastructural and labour discontent.
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