By Raffique Shah February 27, 2023 If anyone in the country was surprised by the minimalist style that almost all the designers opted for in outfitting female masqueraders, such poor folks have either detached themselves from Carnival for some time, or ceased to be bothered by the near nakedness of thousands of adults, whose gyrations … Continue reading Porning our Carnival
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe February 06, 2023 Jonathan Smith (not his real name) is one of my dearest friends. Last Sunday, after reading my column, he sent me the following note: “Dr Cudjoe, I can’t remember when last you wrote so much unrealistic and unadulterated crap. I never heard your good friend Sat Maharaj … Continue reading ‘Stand Together, ye Damned of the Earth’
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 25, 2022 PART I — PART II The Hatter asks Alice: “Why is a bird like a desk?” Alice was pleased. She enjoyed playing word games, so she said, “That’s an easy question.” “Do you mean you know the answer?” said the March Hare. “Yes,” said Alice. “Then you … Continue reading Keith Rowley’s Failed Leadership
By Dr Kwame Nantambu June 27, 2022 Years after the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2011 as “The International Year for People of African Descent”, it must be realized that the European enslavement of African people or the “MAAFA” (“great disaster”) only represents .01 per cent of the history of African people on this planet. … Continue reading Getting world history right: real African history
By Jensen La Vende Newsday Two suspected bandits and a woman are dead after a shootout at a home in Westmoorings on Thursday morning.
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 Raffique Shah November 29, 2021 One of the fundamental though unwritten rights citizens in every country in the world enjoy is the inviolable, unfettered right to be an ass. Or a coward. From the uneducated, the ignorant, to brilliant scholars among the intelligentsia, and otherwise sensible people who are law-abiding and look and act … Continue reading Fear of the needle
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 Selwyn R. Cudjoe November 01, 2021 Beloved is an excruciatingly intense novel about the slave experience written by Toni Morrison, an acclaimed African-American writer. She is the only Black woman to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She also won a Pulitzer Prize for Beloved in 1987. In 2012 President Obama presented … Continue reading Beloved
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe October 25, 2021 An article, “Energising conservative voters, one school board election at a time”, appeared in The New York Times last Thursday. It was subtitled “Republicans hope that concerns about critical race theory can help them in the midterm election”. This issue has torn apart one of Wisconsin’s suburbs. … Continue reading Whiteness and critical race theory