Daily Archives: December 27, 2009

International, Religion

Christmas and Santa Clause: A Historical Review

By Adib Rashad
November 19, 2000
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog

American and European history informs us that the celebration of Christmas was once banned in Britain and the North American colonies. This occurred in the early 17th century. The so-called Puritans in England considered the entire Christmas celebration as repulsively non-Christian. The Puritan Party under Oliver Cromwell in 1642 rendered all Christmas celebrations, religious and secular an anathema, and forbidden by Parliament.
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Finance, General T&T, Politics

Year we learned discretion but ignored destitution

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By Raffique Shah
December 27, 2009
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog

Trini People‘TWAS a year that brought mankind’s madness crashing into the stark realities of the punitive sins of excesses, the deleterious effects of unbridled greed, and maybe, just maybe, it also slammed some heads-in-the-clouds freaks to ground level.
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Complaints, PNM, Politics, Protest

Imbert’s Nonsensical Fire and Brimstone

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By Stephen Kangal
December 27, 2009
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog

Colm ImbertHere was Minister Colm Imbert at his arrogant worse spewing loud and rapid dragon-fire and non-supportable and baseless brimstone in the House as he wallowed in half-lies, untruths and innuendoes in his PT speech on Monday. As I sat in the public gallery and was inflicted with this spectacle, I agonized loudly: How could Mr. Speaker allow his House to be brought into such disdainful odium and total disrepute in the eyes of citizenry by sanctioning Imbert’s loud shouting, his comic antics, his peacock arrogance and his demeaning undiplomatic remarks directed at the Opposition members? His behaviour was nothing short of “waganry” at its sordid and obscene worst.
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