By Raffique Shah
February 28, 2026

I do not know if Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has worked out a plan on how she proposes to write her name in history. Ordinarily, the nature of politics and political rule in the top Caribbean countries, in the region’s relatively short time in global history (600 years recorded since the arrival of the Europeans), does not leave much room for ambitious political figures to write their names as is prevalent in countries whose dated history may be as many as twice that number.
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By Raffique Shah
February 21, 2026

As they evolve, technologies that we see as wondrous little devices make our lives easier, safer, better. Our elders first benefited from these devices when ideas that we had explored for decades, nay, for centuries, opened windows of opportunities, in instances decades after man first ­explored them.

I don’t know when, for example, man first discovered that he could fly. Yes, fly. ­Imagine, if you would, primitive man perched on a tree’s branch, maybe as a human being or as a bird or insect—and through generations, took the thought of flying from a physical manifestation of a motorised vehicle or aircraft that he was probably daydreaming of when a helicopter-like vehicle embedded ­itself in his brain.
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