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The next generation of racial politics

Published on January 23, 2013 in General T&T, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Race and Identity, Racism Watch, THA, Tobago and UNC. 7 Comments Tags: Abuse, Guardian, Keith Rowley, Politics, Sheila Rampersad, T&T Govt, UNC.

By Dr Sheila Rampersad
January 20, 2013 – guardian.co.tt

That Indian/African racism and racialism predate Hilton Sandy, that racial baiting has been ubiquitous in T&T politics, and that it is practised by PNM and UNC are by now undeniable truths. So to swelter inside that cocoa house with repetitive back-and-forth accusations of who said what, when, and who responded then but not now and vice versa is unproductive, unhealthy and, quite frankly, unbright.
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How the International Community Failed Haiti

Published on January 17, 2013 in Caribbean, General T&T, Haiti, International and Politics. 6 Comments Tags: Abuse, African, Aid, Disaster, Racism, USA.

Hundreds of Thousands Homeless in Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake Despite Billions in Aid Funneled to NGOs, Contractors and Internationals

By Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas
January 17, 2013 – counterpunch.org

Despite billions in aid which were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of January 12, 2010 remain.

The earthquake devastated Haiti in January 2010 killing, according to Oxfam International, 250,000 people and injuring another 300,000. 360,000 Haitians are still displaced and living hand to mouth in 496 tent camps across the country according to the International Organization of Migration. Most eat only one meal a day.
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MACHEL GUILTY

Published on December 11, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Law, Media and Violence. 10 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Machel Montano, Newsday.

By Alexander Bruzual
December 11, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

REIGNING Soca Monarch and Road March King Machel Montano was yesterday found guilty by a Port-of-Spain magistrate of five criminal charges of assault and using obscene language during a fracas near the Zen nightclub in Port-of-Spain five years ago.

Montano gasped in the Seventh Court when he was told, he was guilty as charged by Magistrate Maureen Baboolal-Gafoor. He stood next to performing artistes Kernel Roberts, son of deceased Calypso icon Aldwyn ‘Lord Kitchener’ Roberts, 2011 Young Kings Calypso Monarch Rodney “Benjai” LeBlanc and Joel “Zan” Feveck.
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BABY’S FLESH BITTEN OFF

Published on December 10, 2012 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Media and Violence. 14 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Newsday.

By Nalinee Seelal
December 10, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

ENRAGED that there was no food in the house for him to eat, a 24-year-old man violently turned on his own five-day-old baby daughter, grabbing her tiny body and biting off the tender flesh from her left cheek before biting off a chunk of flesh from her right leg at their East Dry River, Port-of-Spain, home yesterday morning.

And while her father remains in police custody, the little baby girl who was given the name Jinayah only two days ago, is warded in a critical condition at the Paediatric Ward of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope.
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Machel Montano guilty on five criminal charges

Published on December 10, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, Culture, Entertainment, General T&T, Law, Media and Violence. 3 Comments Tags: Abuse, Machel Montano, Zen.

…to be sentenced January 17, 2013

Machel and his mother Elizabeth Montano in Club Zen
at Machel Montano’s Appreciation Ceremony 2007

By Darren Bahaw News Editor
December 10, 2012

SOCA STAR Machel Montano was this morning found guilty of five criminal offences.

Montano, the reigning Power Soca Monarch and Road March king, along with Kernel Roberts, the son of legendary Calypso icon Lord Kitchener, Joel “Zan” Feveck, a member of Montano HD Family, and Rodney “Benjai” LeBlanc, best known for his patriotic song, Trini, were all charged with a series of criminal offences arising out a fracas outside the Zen nightclub, in Port of Spain in April 2007.
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Changing the face of power

Published on November 4, 2012 in General T&T, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM and Politics. 7 Comments Tags: Abuse, Politics, Raffique Shah, T&T Govt.

By Raffique Shah
November 03, 2012

SOMETIMES the eternal optimist in me is severely challenged by a nagging pessimism in my mind, and I ask myself, is there any hope that this country would become the paradise so many think it could be, or are we condemned to the purgatory of mediocrity or worse? The thought that we might remain trapped in the netherworld of the latter depresses me.
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Ten years and a ‘po’

Published on October 14, 2012 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Opposition Party, Parliament, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics and UNC. 14 Comments Tags: Abuse, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, Raffique Shah, T&T Govt.

By Raffique Shah
October 13, 2012

RECENTLY, as I mused on the state of “permanent politicking” that citizens of this country have been victims of for decades, I thought, why not elect a government for ten or 20 years? Before readers condemn me to the gallows for instant execution, or cart me off to the lunatic asylum to spend what is left of my miserable life, hear me out. Over the past 21 years, we have had—what?—seven general elections. We have changed governments four times and faces in government at least ten times.
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Gopeesingh’s Son ‘Planasses’ Man

Published on September 28, 2012 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Indian, Law, People's Partnership, Politics and Violence. 32 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Politics, T&T Govt, Tim Gopeesingh.

Gopeesingh: It’s my son
Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh yesterday confirmed that the man depicted in a video assaulting a man with a cutlass is his son.
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Backward ever, forward never

Published on September 23, 2012 in corruption, Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Media, Opposition Party, Parliament, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Protest and Security. 18 Comments Tags: Abuse, Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Crime in T&T, Ishwar Galbaransingh, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Piarco corruption, Politics, Raffique Shah, Steve Ferguson, T&T Govt.

By Raffique Shah
September 22, 2012

IN ordinary times, the Prime Minister’s decision last week to fire Herbert Volney for allegedly misleading the Cabinet on a critical issue (Section 34) would have won the lady universal acclamation. But these are extraordinary times. The baying of the hounds continues unabated, the sounds of fury rise to crescendos, refusing to be silenced by the sacrifice of one silly goat. The natives are restless.
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Volney paying now

Published on September 22, 2012 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Media, Parliament, People's Partnership, Politics, Security and UNC. 7 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Ishwar Galbaransingh, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Piarco corruption, Politics, Raffique Shah, Steve Ferguson, T&T Govt.

By Sasha Harrinanan
September 22, 2012 – newsday.co.tt

THE firing of Justice Minister Herbert Volney, two days ago by Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar, was karma for his controversial 1998 dismissal of a manslaughter trial against Brad Boyce, who was before the High Court for the 1996 killing of Jason Johnson.
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