The revolutionary disrupter

By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe
August 16, 2025

Dr. Selwyn R. CudjoeI wish to remind UNC detractors that the term “revolution” denotes the overthrow of an old order and replacing it with a new system of governance. Sometimes a revolution is violent, sometimes it’s peaceful. Whatever form it takes, it involves changing the social and economic order, repudiating how things were done previously, and delineating what it hopes to accomplish in the future.
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I Commend PM Kamla

By Raffique Shah
August 16, 2025

Raffique ShahI hope I am mistaken, that I have purged myself of the spirit of the sugar industry that came with the first colonisers and all but strangled Trinidad and Tobago’s economy for many years. I am not ungrateful, mark you, for what sugar has given us by way of revenues and opportunities and “solid, liquid cash”, according to Mastana Bahar’s hosts. But its contribution to the wealth of the nation may well have been close to zilch when one considers the number of times it lost money, wrecked people’s savings, and left the country in a state of disaster.
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