- 20 June, 2025
ROWLEY IN THIS HALF-MADE SOCIETY
IN 1971, when the political opposition senselessly boycotted the general election, Prime Minister Dr. Eric Williams fielded a pick-up side in rural constituencies.
CALL IT ‘MR. BAIGAN’
BAIGAN – eggplant to my urban friends – is now going at $20 for a single pound, the equivalent of half of a URP worker’s daily wage. Just the other day, baigan was being retailed at $10, which is also big money for the hundreds of thousands who, according to a Central Bank study, are under the poverty threshold.
RHODA BHARATH WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY
RHODA Bharath, the $30,000-a-month government propagandist, reminds me of a Donna Summer disco classic “She Works Hard for the Money.” Ms. Bharath, you see, is not only a witness to high-stakes leadership shenanigans in the ruling People’s National Movement, but she may also be a key protagonist with an insight into how the wind is blowing.
TTT THE $M PNM PLAYTHING
State broadcaster, Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG), was the first organisation to get a new board of directors, and company chair Helen Drayton had not yet kicked me out. Within weeks of the PNM’s return, the company spent $253,000 on a study on the path forward and then revived the sentimental Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) brand, which had earlier been laid to rest with a generation of viewers.
CRIME – WHY WORSE MAY BE AHEAD
When crime became rampant in Laventille, the authorities – instead of fixing the problem – gave Despers a new home at the site of an abandoned government building at Tragarete Road, Port of Spain.
PNM OUTRAGE OVER HINDS’ FB POST
EMBATTLED National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds is getting no love from senior PNM colleagues over his contentious Facebook post after the Rose Hill shooting horror.
PNM STORM OVER PRO AL RAWI
FARIS AL Rawi, who is unopposed for the post of Public Relations Officer of the PNM, is under growing heat in the ruling party.
ENERGY SECTOR WORKFORCE IN SHARP DECLINE
THE number of workers in Trinidad and Tobago’s energy sector is shrinking. From 19,800 employees in the last quarter of 2015, there are now 6,900, according to the most recent Labour Force Survey Bulletin of the Central Statistical Office (CSO).
Prepare to pay more for pasta, as FOOD PRICES UP AGAIN
LOCAL floods and global factors are sending up food prices once more. Domestic farmers, wholesalers, and retailers say vegetable prices could double over the next few weeks as a result of recent heavy floods in the various food baskets.
WHY ROWLEY PUT OFF LG POLLS
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has received several verbal reports of an outraged electorate.
