By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe September 04, 2008 On Tuesday evening, thanks to the generosity of Jack Warner, I attended a soccer game between Joe Public FC and New England Revolution at the Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts, as each team battled to advance to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League. Joe Public defeated … Continue reading Doing It With Style
By Raffique Shah Sunday, August 3rd 2008 AS many of my African brethren gathered over the past week to mark Emancipation Day, I reflected on just how emancipated we are. And I don’t mean just Afro-Trinis, I mean all of us who form the melting pot that is Trinidad and Tobago. I started this column … Continue reading Emancipation an unrealised dream
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu July 25, 2008 One hundred and seventy-four years have passed since Afrikans were emancipated from European enslavement. Nevertheless, their descendants in TnT are still irreversibly entangled in the web of historical-ancestral dislocation and powerlessness. The fact of the matter is that in 2008, the descendants of these ‘freed’ slaves are still … Continue reading Emancipation vs Liberation
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 26, 2008 When I was growing up in Tacarigua, Gilbert Jessop, the priest of the St. Mary’s Anglican Church, employed David, a homosexual servant, who was cook, maid, chief bottle washer and the master of his house. Rev. Jessop, the son of the famous English cricketer of the same … Continue reading Church and Sexuality
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu May 08, 2008 In his 1972 article titled “The meaning of development”, Professor Dudley Sears argued that “a country which had doubled per capita income could not claim to have experienced development if poverty, inequality, (inflation/ spiraling high cost of living, food shortages, human safety/security, level of crimes) and unemployment had … Continue reading Industrialization by Illusion: T&T Today
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe April 04, 2008 Last week when I alluded to my double allegiance to Christian and Yoruba religious practices that attended my growing up in Tacarigua I wanted to suggest that religion, be it of the European or African variety, structures our imaginative and emotional lives and how we behave in … Continue reading Land of Hope and Glory
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu March 25, 2008 As quiet as it is kept, Trinbagonians seem to be in long-term denial that there is a direct correlation between Soca music and moral decadence in TnT. As of this writing, the evidence is very clear and convincing that immorality and public sexual vulgarity have surpassed the nadir … Continue reading Soca Music and Moral Decadence
Inauguration of TT’s President in pictures Public scarce on President’s big day Judging from the crowd that turned out to President George Maxwell Richards’s inauguration ceremony at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo yesterday, it was clear that the people of this country prefer to party to the max with the President during Carnival, than … Continue reading Inauguration of TT’s President
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe March 06, 2008 In 1980 when Peter Minshall was about to bring out Danse Macabre, David Picou, a good friend of Ken Morris, took Morris a sketch from Minshall and asked him to see what he could do with it. That suggestion led to the production a section in Minshall’s … Continue reading Gingerbread Houses
By Stephen Kangal February 19, 2008 In the build up to Wednesday’s meeting with newly elected PM Thompson of Barbados, PM Manning must be briefed comprehensively and clinically on the problems and issues that contributed to the deterioration of T&T/Barbados bilateral relations during the regime of former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. He must work assiduously … Continue reading Fixing Our Relations with Barbados First