- 19 June, 2025
WE HAVE COME TOO FARLEY TO TURN BACK
Young, measured and thoughtful Farley Augustine could emerge as the antidote to the ageing, abrasive and aloof Dr. Keith Rowley.
Augustine’s responsible carriage and refreshing tone were major factors in his emerging political party’s epic defeat of the PNM warhorse, in Rowley’s stomping ground.
THE CARIBBEAN HAS A LEADER!
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s address at the international climate change conference was the most sterling performance of a Caribbean leader in …well, as long as we could remember.
Ms. Mottley spoke truth to power, staring down the world’s leaders and a captive global audience on the urgent environmental issues.
ROWLEY’S CLIMATE CHANGE JOYRIDE
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and his travelling team are not expected to bring value to or reap rewards from the United Nations’ 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).
That is because Trinidad and Tobago has made no commitments with respect to climate change and, therefore, cannot be held to account.
POLITICS IN DISMISSAL OF TTPS’ 15
MCDONALD Jacob acted on political instructions in sending home 15 highly-paid contracted employees of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
The directive came from a government minister, CounterPunchTT could confirm.
WHY NATIONS FAIL
Why Nations Fail is a book for the current times in Trinidad and Tobago.
The masterpiece was written almost a decade ago after about 15 years of study by two renowned economists.
They concluded that nations succeed not because of culture, geography, weather, or education, but as a result of institutions.
COLIN POWELL’S LOVE OF SPARROW’S MUSIC
I remember the evening – it was in April, 1998, I have reconfirmed – when Colin Powell hugged and kissed Mighty Sparrow.
Powell was at the Diplomatic Centre in Port of Spain to endorse a mentoring programme and museum collection of Dr. Eric Williams, a guest of then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday.
DPP Gaspard , Withdraw this prosecution!
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has compromised the integrity of the pending criminal prosecution case against former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Attorney Gerald Ramdeen.
Mr DPP, what is the difference between the media and Prime Minister?
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi is now declining to publicly comment on the pending criminal prosecution case against former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Attorney Gerald Ramdeen with regards to the indemnity agreement he signed with the State’s main witness British Queen’s Counsel Vincent Nelson. “The sub judice rule applies here to protect the fairness of the criminal process which might be affected by undue publicity.”
The political interference and attempt to subvert and assault the constitution by the Police Service Commission, the President, PM and AG makes Section 34 looks like a tea-party!
The gross hypocrisy of this galloping dictator Keith Christopher Rowley, whose intimate and pathological fractured relationship with the truth and his PNM-led Government’s increasingly authoritarian assaults on ordinary citizens continues.
WHERE IS US $20 M WORLD BANK COVID GRANT?
WHERE is the US $20 million granted to Trinidad and Tobago by the World Bank to fight Covid-19?
Why didn’t Finance Minister Colm Imbert account for this funding in his recent Budget presentation?
These questions are being posed by knowledgeable financial experts, who say that Imbert must report on the use to which the grant was put.
