www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Tonight TV6 News reported that police investigators have closed the books on investigations into the Danah Alleyne/Akon raunchy dancing incident at Zen nightclub. The TV6 News report said, “According to Deputy Commissioner of Police Winston Cooper, the investigations have reached a stalemate as witnesses aren’t coming forward to support the police.”
At Club Zen Tonight, April 27th, 2007 Less than twenty-four hours after police moved to close Zen nightclub, club owner Johnny Soong said that Zen is very much open for business. Soong is threatening legal action if his club suffers any losses coming from an extremely controversial string of events.
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Machel and his mother Elizabeth Montano at Club Zen in 2007 at Machel Montano’s Appreciation Ceremony TrinidadandTobagoNews.com April 26, 2007 In the aftermath of the Akon and Danah scandal at Club Zen, new reports have surfaced of another controversy/incident at the club in which Soca giants Machel Montano, Kernel Roberts and Benjai have been … Continue reading Machel Montano in Brawl at Zen Over Spilled Drink
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Comment on i95.5fm [audio:zendanah240407.mp3] By Heru From: Trinidad and Tobago News Blog April 24, 2007 When this issue first surfaced on the internet and local radio talk shows, before Trinicenter’s article “Akon Did Not Abuse Girl At Zen“, many people were making very racist comments against Akon. Over time, following the exposure of the … Continue reading Danah’s Conduct at Zen: What’s the Big Deal?
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Danah Alleyne before “action” with Akon Trinicenter.com Reporters April 22, 2007 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a response to the many racist comments about the Akon/Danah video clip, especially those that were initially posted on YouTube, among other websites. The two clips that were initially posted on YouTube were removed together with hundreds of … Continue reading Akon Did Not Abuse Girl At Zen
Raffique Shah Sunday, April 1st 2007 LAST week the world’s conscience drifted back in time, some 400 years, to the barbaric transatlantic slave trade, and to the bicentennial of its formal abolition in 1807. What I read and heard of apologies sans reparations, of manufacturing heroes and liberators while ignoring those who really fought to … Continue reading No man must ride your back
By Leslie www.africaspeaks.com/leslie March 27, 2007 When has Western society ever taken moral precedence over the dollar? All the examples chronicled in our recent and ancient history indicate that the answer is a resounding “never.” It is therefore safe to say that the decision to ban the slave trade in 1807 was not about those … Continue reading Celebrating the Madness: Britain’s Financial Decision to End the Slave Trade
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu March 26, 2007 Slavery started in the United States in 1619 when twenty Afrikans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, aboard a Dutch ship. According to the 1850 census figures, there were 3.5 million Afrikan slaves in the United States. On 1st January, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation thereby freeing … Continue reading America’s slavery experience: Underground Railroad
By Marion O’Callaghan, newsday.co.tt Monday, March 19 2007 This is what Harry Mungalsingh, speaking in the Senate, said: “As far as I know, 83 percent of the prison population come from specific communities which predicates the need for a strong and distinct national development plan accepted by the entire society for these specific 16 communities … Continue reading Harry Mungalsingh’s distinct national development plan
By Stephen Kangal February 11, 2007 The arbitrary and selective conduct of the police in responding to recent popular protest movements raises fundamental questions on this response and its linkage with the composition of the protective services in plural Trinidad and Tobago. In cosmopolitan societies but more so in a multicultural but in an ethnically … Continue reading Wanted: Plurality in the Police Service