Singing for one’s supper

By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe
July 12, 2025

Dr. Selwyn R. CudjoeSOONER OR LATER “de chupid” talk was bound to happen. “Cudjoe singing for his supper” and he’s “being paid off with a board appointment”. A PNM sycophant sent me a note: “Singing for your supper. You are no longer a [sic] advocate for poor black people director Cudjoe….Sing, boy, sing. It was never about true [sic] to power but to secure opportunities for yourself. Cudjoe my shame. Africans for sale.”
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Permanent poverty

By Raffique Shah
July 12, 2025

Raffique ShahAfter researching the Internet extracting information that would lead me to a possible exit from the suffering that poverty imposes on people, I concluded that the way out of poverty is to ignore those who are stricken by its malafides.

Poverty spares not one country. Even the wealthy countries have vagrants. Some of the brightest minds, backed by generous funding for university and other research agencies, have attempted to peer behind the tattered curtains that shroud poverty. Their conclusions and possible solutions are jokes. When calypsonian the Mighty Shadow (Winston Bailey) belted out his thought-provoking theories in song, he achieved nothing. Not the money earned from the sale of the song, mark you.
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