By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
August 31, 2006
The decision by the Ministry of Social Development to launch the “Smart Card” initiative to assist “the least of these” in our society only brings to the fore the ineptitude, superficiality, and myopia of the public policy decision making process in TnT under the PNM regime.
Continue reading ‘Smart Card — Duncy social policy’
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
August 25, 2006
The public issuance of the Draft Constitution of TnT, embodying the election of an Executive President and Vice President, manifests the latest dictatorial blitz/salvo that the Manning-PNM government has leveled, hurled and pelted at the citizens of TnT.
Continue reading ‘Dictatorial blitz of the PNM’
By Michael De Gale
Incompetent, unconscious, unconscionable, and an imbecile, Fitzgerald Hinds is an embarrassment to the PNM, his constituency, the legal profession and Black people everywhere. I’ve stopped being surprised when I hear the utter nonsense that emanates from the mouth of this brother; however, I continue to be consistently embarrassed. To state in Parliament that his British counterparts assured him that, “T&T is as safe as London,” despite the unprecedented number of murders, is a clear indication that Mr. Hinds is either a buffoon or he is just plain stupid. He certainly seems to have no sense of history for if he did, he would understand why his British counterparts will make such a statement. How does one rationalize the fact that in a population of just over 1.2 million and an area of approximately 1,864 square miles, 253 people have been murdered to date? By comparison, in Toronto with a population in excess of 2.5 million, less than 50 murders have occurred over the same period. Must we always aspire to the lowest common denominator?
Continue reading ‘Mr. Hinds Should be Tarred & Feathered!’
By Linda Edwards
August 21, 2006
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog
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All countries where land was alienated from the indigenous inhabitants for the benefit of Europeans should follow the example of Zimbabwe, and either force the farmers to agree to a fair price for their ill-gotten gains; fair being what the government determines the land is worth, or confiscate the land outright, paying a minimal sum in compensation. The enormous profits they already made could keep them in hock for three or four generations.
Continue reading ‘South Africa threatens to evict Whites’
By Raffique Shah
Last Wednesday I found myself following Ramesh Maharaj’s march. Ramesh will not have seen me, so he may well say, “Shah is a liar!” Before I am so branded, let me explain. I happened to be travelling in a maxi-taxi going south when I saw traffic and some commotion in the area of Petrotrin’s refinery. As the maxi snaked past, I saw scores of policemen and maybe around 40 marchers, matching the traffic’s snail’s pace, proceeding north. Behind them traffic piled up for around a mile. It struck me that I, too, would be trapped in that since I would soon return home, having to pass Maharaj’s marchers.
Continue reading ‘The party’s over, Bas’
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
At the outset, it must be clearly stated that what is sharply discernible is that the Euro-colonial system of education actually replaced an ongoing indigenous Afrikan system of education.
Continue reading ‘Euro-Colonial Education in Afrika’
By Clint Chan Tack, newsday.co.tt
A ROMAN Catholic priest yesterday called upon the population to pray for young men who fall into a life of crime rather than hope that they will solve the gang problem plaguing several communities in Trinidad and Tobago, by eliminating each other.
Continue reading ‘Priest urges prayers for wayward youths’
By Raffique Shah
If there was any surprise over last Thursday’s transatlantic airline crisis it was that British security forces, working in collaboration with Pakistan’s, managed to pre-empt what could have been a disaster of immense proportions. But sadly for the millions who must travel by air every day, and who have nothing to do with the root causes of a would-be mass mid-air murder, the risks have not diminished. George Bush, who has taken the world to the edge of disaster, is still around-will be for another two years-to peddle his devious non-strategies.
Continue reading ‘Blame Bush, not Bin Laden’
By Linda Edwards
This project, now completed at the Russell Latapy Secondary School on July 17 to 28, aimed at providing additional reading support services for children in the under-served areas of Morvant/Laventille, who were identified by their sending schools as being less advanced than their peers. In some cases, they could hardly read.
Continue reading ‘A Small Beginning: The UCIBIDES reading project’
By Terry Joseph
Although commanding an incalculably large viewing audience, MTV hasn’t made proportionate contribution to the sum of human dignity it met at first airing 25 years ago, except there is value hidden somewhere in the dehumanisation of black youth.
Globally famous as the ultimate party source, the station quietly marked its silver anniversary, which fell on Emancipation Day, perhaps fearing increased attention to the role it plays in enslaving black youth, who now refer to each other as “pimp” and “bitch” rather than “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” as was the language of their forbears in the pre-MTV era.
Continue reading ‘Dehumanising our youth’
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