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Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
- 9 January, 2025
Commentary
ANTI-WORKER GOVERNMENT
THE legal injunction forcing port workers back on the job is another blow against the working masses by the Government.
As it did against teachers two years ago, the Government last week asked the Industrial Court to grant an ex-parte injunction instructing port workers to pick back up their tools.
GOVERNMENT’S HEARTLESSNESS, SRC’S INCOMPETENCE
Now, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and other beneficiaries will disavow any interest in pay hikes at this time, on the eve of a crucial general election.
But when the SRC originally presented its report last February, Cabinet sent it back for the Commission to also consider increases for the judiciary.
A DUNCE CAP FOR IMBERT
COLM Imbert wrote the PNM’s 2015 general election manifesto, which faithfully promised to grow and diversify the economy.
Imbert and the PNM guaranteed that there would be “macroeconomic stability, strong institutions and investor confidence.”
ROWLEY’S ABSURD JINDAL OBSESSION
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, who presided over the net flight of US $2.6 billion in investments in 2022-2023, is furious over objections to the suspicious entry of a corruption-accused businessman.
A TALE OF TWO LEADERS
Dr. Keith Rowley – who sailed to electoral victory nine years ago with an “all-of-government” anti-crime pledge – insisted he can’t be held accountable for the pestilence that stalks the land.
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE?
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley agonises over the unending stream of cold-blooded killings as if he is an average helpless citizen.
He still saddles the country with gross incompetence at the National Security Ministry, to the point where his friend, UWI’s Dr. Hilary Beckles, speaking at Emancipation Day celebrations, pleaded for a “changing of the guard.”
POETIC JUSTICE FOR JINDAL
TAXPAYERS are dishing out $12 million to a Canadian company to evaluate bids for the lease of Petrotrin.
The Government has permitted Naveen Jindal, the billionaire industrialist, to skip that process.
Why doesn’t President speak out on national crises?
PRESIDENT Christine Kangaloo’s attempt to play down painful national crises is typical of high office holders insulated from the reality of ordinary citizens. Kangaloo suggests
COPS ONLY BAD WITH TRAFFIC TICKETS
A FEW months ago, a bulky police officer stepped into my path as I drove off Churchill-Roosevelt Highway between St. Augustine Girls’ High School and
PM’S SALARY HIKE OBSCENE, SHAMELESS
IT’S happening before our eyes.
Attorney Gilbert Peterson pocketed almost $9 million with respect to the Commission of Enquiry into the Paria diving tragedy that took the lives of four innocent and diligent workers.