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2023

ACCLAIMED HINDU LEADER VISITS T&T
- By Ken Ali
- . February 9, 2023
Trinidadian-born Canadian citizen Dr Balliram Chadee, 60, has thousands throughout the world listening to his lectures and following his charities.

THE ODDS AGAINST ERLA
- By Ken Ali
- . February 9, 2023
Trinidad and Tobago could have implemented the Canadian-style crime-fighting prescription but we chased away two of their finest police officials Dwayne Gibbs and Jack Ewatski midway into their three-year terms of duty.

WHAT ROHLEHR DIDN’T TELL US
- By Ken Ali
- . February 7, 2023
NOW that the breathless tributes to Professor Gordon Rohlehr have subsided, I feel safe to emerge with a sober view. This is not to subtract from my appreciation of Rohlehr as possibly the definitive academic voice on calypso before ethnic politics became entrenched in Trinidad and Tobago.

WHAT MADE ANIL BHEEM SPECIAL
- By Ken Ali
- . February 4, 2023
HIS peers describe him as being so talented he could have been a playback singer for Bollywood movies. They speak of his versatile voice and his capacity to interpret from devotional to classical to film songs.

MADURO’S STRANGE SILENCE OVER GAS DEAL
- By Ken Ali
- . February 2, 2023
VENEZUELA’S Nicholas Maduro Government has thrown a blanket of silence over the United States’ decision to permit exploration of the cross-border Dragon gas field.

UTT TURNS ROGUE
- By Ken Ali
- . February 1, 2023
THE University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) has been sanitising its top staff for political purposes. And taxpayers are made to fund such “shameful, offensive, discriminatory, high-handed and reprehensible” action.

MOONILAL GOES CHUTNEY
- By Ken Ali
- . February 1, 2023
PROMINENT politician Dr. Roodal Moonilal is now being regaled in chutney. Singer Kenneth Seepersad copped the second position in the semi-final of the Soca-Chutney Competition with “Moonilal D Man With The Big Dhantal.”

DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS TO RUN FOR US PRESIDENT
- By Ken Ali
- . January 30, 2023
Nimrata Nikki Haley, who, during the Donald Trump presidency became the first female US Ambassador to the United Nations, has indicated an interest in the top job. “It is time for a generational change,” 51-year-old Ms. Haley said, hinting at a run for the presidency.

PM BLOWING HOT AIR ON WIND FARM
- By Ken Ali
- . January 26, 2023
PRIME MINISTER Dr. Keith Rowley’s plan for a wind farm may be just a lot of hot air. That is because a University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) study has deflated such a project as “not an environmentally feasible option.”

T&T at centre of high-stakes diplomatic and trade war…
- By Ken Ali
- . January 26, 2023
THE Rowley Government’s increasing chumminess with China was a critical factor in the United States freeing up the Venezuelan offshore gas field. Trinidad and Tobago’s “comprehensive partnership” with China, which includes major commercial investments, was a prime consideration in the US handing out the big plum of licensing the Dragon gas field.