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At that price we expect nothing but the best…

Published on November 15, 2009 in Culture, Finance, General T&T, Media and Politics. 12 Comments Tags: , , , .

By Raffique Shah
November 15, 2009
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog

IT’S most columnists’ nightmare, having to return to a topic he or she will have dealt with recently. It gets worse when the target is a politician, matters not what side of the divide he or she is on. They never look into their mirrors and wonder why writers focus on them. They conclude you are against them, that you support their enemies, hence your criticisms.

But, as I learned early in my many years of writing opinion pieces, you write and be damned; if you fail to address burning issues, readers conclude you are on somebody’s payroll. There are so many important matters I wish to address, to have my fellow citizens focus on. Sadly, because of the insensitivity of our politicians, I have to forego serious issues and zero my computer on Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
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Official Opening of the National Academy for the Performing Arts

Published on November 10, 2009 in CHOGM, Complaints, Culture, General T&T, Politics, UDeCOTT and corruption. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
The Official Opening of the National Academy for the Performing Arts (Northern Campus)

Opening of the National Academy for the Performing Arts

PM’s $480m PRIDE
National Academy for the Performing Arts a masterpiece, says Manning
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Can PM Manning Ever Get Anything Right?

Published on November 5, 2009 in Complaints, General T&T, Politics, Race and Identity and Sports. 18 Comments Tags: , , , , .

By Stephen Kangal
November 05, 2009
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog

TT CricketersWhen the ethnicity agenda gets in the way of PM Manning’s modus operandi, which is the rule, he is doomed to make faux pas after faux pas. He becomes a stranger to the stark multicultural reality that surrounds him. His groping in the dark Caucasian Minister of Sports is caught in the horns of an ethnicity dilemma. He dismisses the outstanding T&T Cricket Team as not winning anything in India. At the airport he merely “notes” the performance. He is a stoic only where cricket is concerned. This is tragic and blatant irrationality.
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Shoring up time?

Published on November 3, 2009 in General T&T, PNM, Politics and UNC. 5 Comments Tags: , , , .

Newsday Editorial
November 03, 2009 – newsday.co.tt

Patrick Manning and Basdeo PandayWhat is the real agenda for the sudden meeting between Prime Minister Patrick Manning and embattled Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday?

According to the official line, Manning has invited Panday to the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s to discuss “national issues — crime and the constitution.” Basdeo Panday has jumped at the invitation, saying “It is my duty to respond…”
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Leave this ‘House of Clowns’, Mr Speaker

Published on October 25, 2009 in General T&T, PNM, Politics, UDeCOTT and UNC. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

By Raffique Shah
October 25, 2009
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com

ParliamentWITH the greatest deference to House Speaker Barry Sinanan, I think he should realise by now that he presides over a House of Clowns. If he values his integrity, he should run like hell, but not before he inflicts some choice words on the 41 jokers who sit in Parliament. In case the Speaker is short on gems from the “mooma-lexicon”, he can feel free to summon my help, since I co-authored the Obscene Dictionary.
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UDECOTT WORSE THAN PIARCO

Published on October 20, 2009 in Finance, General T&T, Law, PNM, Politics, UDeCOTT and corruption. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

By Sean Douglas
October 20, 2009 – newsday.co.tt

UDECOTTPULLING no punches as he fearlessly trained his guns on his political leader, Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley yesterday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Patrick Manning, declaring the Udecott scandal was ten times worse than the Piarco Airport affair and warning that come the next General Election, the issue would be about PNM corruption.
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Case against PM thrown out

Published on October 15, 2009 in Complaints, Law, Media, PNM and Politics. 4 Comments Tags: , , , .

October 15, 2009
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PM Patrick ManningComplainant against PM in wrong courtroom

A PRIVATE criminal charge against Prime Minister Patrick Manning was thrown out by Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls yesterday, because the woman who filed the charge was absent from the courtroom.

Manning, who appeared through his attorney Michael Quamina, later waved to reporters as his convoy stopped for a moment outside the St Vincent Street, Port of Spain courthouse, moments after the dismissal.
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Proliferation of Fact and Fiction in the Property Tax Debacle

Published on October 7, 2009 in Complaints, Finance, General T&T, PNM and Politics. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

By Stephen Kangal – Caroni
October 07, 2009
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HouseThis ill-conceived, thief-in-the night and fiscally obscene property tax is being driven and confused by a conflicting and contradictory interplay of the contending forces of fact and fiction. In one fell swoop all proud resident home-owners of T&T have been reduced to fictitious renters paying fictitiously high rents way beyond their (f)actual salaries in order to arrive at an artificial and fictitious annual taxable value (ATV) for one’s fictitiously rented home. They have even thrown in the factual two-month compensatory renting hiatus period to arrive at the fictitious, unreal ATV.
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Time to replace the PNM

Published on October 7, 2009 in Complaints, General T&T, PNM, Politics and UDeCOTT. 16 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

By George Alleyne
October 7 2009 – newsday.co.tt
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PNMIt is time for a multi-racial and multi-economic group political party to emerge which will effectively challenge and replace the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) at the next General Election. The country should be prepared to accept that the PNM today is but a simulacrum of the party which the late Dr Eric Williams created.
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Derailing Uff

Published on October 6, 2009 in Law, Media, PNM, Politics and UDeCOTT. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Newsday’s Editorial
Tuesday, October 6 2009

Calder HartLAST Friday’s freezing of the Commission of Inquiry into Udecott until the High Court hears Udecott’s case for judicial review on February 8, 2010 may look like a bolt out of the blue, but to seasoned observers it should come as no surprise. While on the surface there is a lot of confusion as to how lawyers for the Commission could possibly have ended up agreeing to such a draconian consent-order with Udecott’s lawyers, we dryly note that it comes on the heels of a long list of past efforts to throw the spotlight of public accountability away from Udecott.
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