By Raffique Shah February 21, 2022 I am convinced that Trinidad and Tobago is the most corrupt country in the world. There is hardly a person who has not witnessed “wid mih own eyes”, as Trinis would say, or otherwise gained knowledge of, at least one act of corruption in his lifetime, and likelier several … Continue reading Corruption capital
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe February 15, 2022 I am not sure that I feel the same angst Ralph Maraj (a fellow columnist), former archbishop Joseph Harris, Raymond Tim Kee (deceased), Ken Gordon and others feel about the debilitating effects that Carnival has on the moral and ethical standards of our people. Maraj laments: “Our … Continue reading A call for social justice
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe November 15, 2021 The recent upsurge of religious voices calling upon God to intervene in the carnival of atrocities that our country is experiencing occurred when the corpse of 26-year-old Kezia Janeka Guerra was found in a shallow grave in Maracas, St. Joseph. Father Knolly Clarke intoned: “I am concerned … Continue reading The Loss of Innocence
By Dr Kwame Nantambu September 01, 2021 Within recent times, massive chupidness has overtly erupted in T&T in regard to Trinbagonians taking their jabs. Indeed, the clarion call has been publicly bandied about to the extent that Trinbagonians are “skeptical” and “hesitant” toward agreeing to take their jabs. No problema. The salient fact of the … Continue reading Real vaccinate chupidness in T&T
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 04, 2021 The condemnations came fast and furious. U.S. actor Michael B. Jordan, it seems, was farse and outaplace to name his new rum J’Ouvert and equally outatiming to set the label of his product on a box that included “a schematic of the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, … Continue reading Saying Yes, Sometimes
By Raffique Shah May 03, 2021 By a curious twist of fate, I was browsing through some books on Amazon when I saw a digital copy of one of the finest historical novels I’ve read, Freedom at Midnight, co-authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. I couldn’t resist buying it. I would find the time … Continue reading Vortex of violence
By Raffique Shah March 29, 2021 Last week, dealing with the new vaccines that are unfolded almost daily to fight the Covid19 pandemic, I unfairly targeted the World Health Organisation and the Pan American Health Organisation as having betrayed countries like Trinidad and Tobago that have adhered to the rules of engagement, quietly awaiting their … Continue reading Right, wrong, but spot on
By Raffique Shah March 01, 2021 I cannot claim to have conducted any scientific survey by interviewing samples of the population the way political pollsters do, but I feel certain if I did, I would find that as many as seven out of every ten adults believe that ‘Trinidad and Tobago gone through’, in the … Continue reading We will survive
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe November 25, 2020 “Me nah know how we and dem a go work this out/But someone will have to pay/for the innocent blood/that they shed every day.” —Bob Marley, “We and Dem” There is a notion that Trinis are a happy-go-lucky people, a description that may be more applicable to … Continue reading Demonizing Black People
By Raffique Shah September 07, 2020 Early morning Independence Day. I switch on the television, remembering that there would be no military parade this year, thanks to Covid-19, the Great Destroyer. So what is there to watch? On CNC3, I catch the last few words of the Prime Minister—rerun of an interview he’d done with … Continue reading Opportunities lost