Commentary

ROWLEY’S 10 DISASTROUS YEAR

“LET’S rescue our country,” Dr. Keith Rowley told Trinidad and Tobago 10 years ago.

STUART YOUNG’S SOCIAL MEDIA POLITICS

TODAY’S headline news about Stuart Young’s touted legislative reform on social media is a cocktail of bogus politics and sloppy journalism.

ROWLEY’S FINAL OLE TALK ON FOOD

PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley last week discussed food production and prices with his Caricom colleagues even while he has done nothing on those crucial issues.

COLM AGAIN?!

ONLY in a collapsing state could the author of our crisis flaunt another term in elected office.

Colm Imbert dancing his way to the PNM Screening Committee is an affront to the country he wrecked with a stream of failed economic policies.

A CONCRETE SCANDAL

The latest increase in the retail price of cement – the fifth in three years – is an illustration of such predatory practice.

The government and the Fair Trading Commission casually sat back as monopolist Trinidad Cement Ltd., (TCL) imposed another price hike.

WE DESERVE A PARDY

WE have to go back 50 years for an equal number of political parties to those in this general election season.

In 1976, a total of 11 parties and a handful of independents faced the electorate of 565,646.

HOW TO HOLD YOUNG ACCOUNTABLE

LABELLING incoming Prime Minister Stuart Young with Indian nicknames is bad politics and poor strategy.

It would spark a dead-end and senseless race row while sidestepping the critical issues for which Young must be held accountable.

T&T HEADING TO HAITI’S ANARCHY

THE shootings at the homes of three prison officers are the latest step in Trinidad and Tobago’s descent into Haitian-style anarchy.

The shootings follow Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s shocking assertion of police stations being closed for fear of criminals.

Local prisons officers were previously killed, allegedly after hits were placed on their lives by inmates.