By Raffique Shah February 28, 2010 THE tide of events often disrupts the best laid plans of columnists. I promised readers last week that I would today conclude my take on a ‘dying Carnival’. I wanted to share my thoughts on the few remaining bright sparks in the festival-the effervescent young pannists, calypsonians Kurt Allen, … Continue reading Ghosts in Panday’s political afterlife
The Lioness roars Kamla’s dawn, Panday’s sunset By Sean Douglas January 31, 2010 – newsday.co.tt SIPARIA MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar probably surprised even herself at the extent of her whopping landslide victory over Couva North MP Basdeo Panday for the UNC leadership last Sunday. She got 13,000 votes to Panday’s 1,300. Last week’s events were best … Continue reading Kamla’s dawn, Panday’s sunset
By Raffique Shah January 24, 2010 WHAT surprised me about my column last week was the number of people, mostly local, who knew little or nothing about Haiti’s history. But what should I have expected in a country and an education system in which history has been deemed irrelevant? Or when students study the subject, … Continue reading Haiti: Another American Annexation?
By Sir Hilary Beckles January 23, 2009 – nationnews.com THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme “Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti”. I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular … Continue reading The hate and the quake in Haiti
By Ras Tyehimba December 09, 2009 Trinidad and Tobago recently hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2009 under the theme “partnering for a more equitable and sustainable future”. Fifty-three leaders of countries, formerly direct colonies, gathered in Port of Spain, under the symbolic leadership of Queen Elizabeth II. The general responses to the … Continue reading CHOGM’s Shameful Legacy
By Andre Bagoo December 02, 2009 – newsday.co.tt PERSONS who are members of, or have links to the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) are among the hundreds listed as recipients of scholarships from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs.
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog PoS climate deal sealed HISTORY was made in Port-of-Spain yesterday as Commonwealth leaders reached a groundbreaking agreement on climate change on day two of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). This was revealed at a news conference held at the International Financial Centre in Port-of-Spain by Prime Minister … Continue reading PoS climate deal sealed
By Amilcar Sanatan – UWI Student November 29, 2009 Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog The Commonwealth is a voluntary intergovernmental organisation that covers fifty-three independent states. The collection of nations that belong to the organisation and the two billion people they represent justify its existence. The Commonwealth organisation has established itself throughout the former … Continue reading Ahead Has No Crown
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu July 19, 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com The recent accusation by UNC’s Dr. Tim Gopeesingh of “ethnic cleansing” of Indian-Trinbagonian, not Indo-Trinbagonian, doctors at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital at the supposed hands of the PNM-Manning administration, smacks of an innocuous similarity of “reverse discrimination” by Euro-White Americans whenever African-Americans seem to make some modicum … Continue reading ‘Ethnic cleansing’ of Whom in T&T?
By Sean Douglas July 18, 2009 – newsday.co.tt www.trinidadandtobagonews.com CARONI East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh alleged an “ethnic cleansing” of Indo-Trinidadian doctors at Port-of-Spain General Hospital (PoSGH), but Leader of Government Business, Colm Imbert, dismissed these charges as “scandalous, false and outrageous.” The heated exchange shook up a dull debate on the Emergency Ambulance Services … Continue reading ‘PoS General, an African hospital’