- 11 June, 2025
BETTER DAYS NOT COMING
IN his takedown of the authorities in Better Days Are Coming, Black Stalin agonised about the savagery of crime in Trinidad and Tobago. “My son
BRITAIN PLEDGED REPARATIONS TO T&T
A BRAND-NEW international report states that Britain had pledged to provide reparations for slavery to the people of Trinidad and Tobago at the end of colonialism in 1962. The arrangement is being called “one of the most effective reparations measures in history.”
FOOD PRICES TO RISE AGAIN
FOOD prices are projected to rise again in 2023. With local farmers still reeling from the effects of the recent horrible floods, vegetable, poultry, and
WHAT ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR’!
HERE is a sobering fact to consider with Trinidad and Tobago now the most violent small space on earth. Between 1995 and 1999, murders totalled 520 (122, 106, 101, 98 and 93), and yet then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday inserted himself into the hot seat as National Security Minister.
WHERE IS THE FAIR PLAY FOR SCRAP IRON DEALERS?
SINGING Francine, the late, lamented calypso poet, rendered a sterling number on equal rights several years ago. Everyone deserves equal opportunity and justice, Francine sang
VENE REFUGEES BLANK T&T FOR US
HARD times in Trinidad and Tobago and the easing of immigration restrictions in the United States are causing Venezuelan refugees to head up north.
A BLOODY CHRISTMAS
SOMEDAY at Christmas, Stevie Wonder sang, “men won’t be boys, playing with bombs like kids play with toys”. If we supplant “bomb” with “guns,” that could be Trinidad and Tobago’s fervent yuletide hope.
THE LITTLE BOY THAT SANTA CLAUS FORGOT
LITTLE Allon Ramdial never really stood a chance. Allon was born to a juvenile mom just over 16, and their home was a cramped room in a fishing facility, metres from Ortoire River, the country’s widest and deepest waterway.
PROCUREMENT BOSS HAS GOODS ON CORRUPT POLITICIANS
PROCUREMENT Regulator Moonilal Lalchan has the goods on certain corrupt politicians. But it is unlikely that Lalchan would be able to move against the lawbreakers since the relevant law has not been fully proclaimed and he is racing against time.
DON’T HURRY BACK, JACOB
IN a serious land, acting police chief McDonald Jacob would have been told to go on an extended vacation.
