By Corey Gilkes August 06, 2014 Years ago, the late economist and social thinker Lloyd Best pondered over the question of how does one save a culture from itself. This is a question we have not collectively dealt with as we continue to entangle ourselves more and more in the destructive aspects of this culture … Continue reading Emancipate Yourself from … Yourself
By Tony Fraser August 31, 2011 – guardian.co.tt Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her Government took probably their most important and perhaps courageous decision of their 15 months in office with the declaration of the state of emergency. It is a decision full of potential for a major reduction in the criminal menace that has … Continue reading SoE an important and courageous decision
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 30, 2011 Is either I stupidly or Anand and dem know many things I don’t know. But I didn’t know that one had to declare a state of emergency to capture some gang leaders and charge them with possession of marijuana or cocaine. I didn’t know that the only … Continue reading Rejecting the State of Emergency
BREAKING NEWS — 7:00 PM BREAKING NEWS: Government Fires UDeCoTT Board Developing… UFF: Public purse was at risk The UDeCoTT board was guilty of a “dereliction of duty” and “knowingly exposed the public purse to a grave risk” by failing to question the award of a $368 million contract to CH Development/Sunway Construction (Caribbean) Limited … Continue reading BREAKING NEWS: Government Fires UDeCoTT Board
Q. Is Obama better than Bush? A. It depends how you like your imperialism – with a white face or a black one. By Stephen Gowans July 19, 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com US president Barack Obama’s speech at Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 was equal parts jaw dropping hypocrisy, outright fiction, sound advice for Africans if … Continue reading Obama’s Africa Speech: Lies, Hypocrisy, and a Prescription for Continued African Dependence
By Stephen Gowans June 25, 2008 This is a war between revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries; between nationalists and quislings; between Zimbabwean patriots and the US and Britain. Should an election be carried out when a country is under sanctions and it has been made clear to the electorate that the sanctions will be lifted only if … Continue reading Zimbabwe at War