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- 19 September, 2024
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
The Failure of Coalition Governments in Trinidad and Tobago
The political history of Trinidad and Tobago has witnessed several coalition governments that ultimately failed.
PASSING OF THE GREATEST GENERATION
We are losing the post-Independence generation, whose imaginations were fired by national pride and honour and who strove zealously to create a better Trinidad and Tobago.
‘WHY NO CALYPSO ON PARIA?’
WHILE prominent calypsonians dodged the issue of the deaths of four Paria divers, a music teacher has poured her heart into the scandal.
SHOTTA ONLY KILLING YUH AFRICAN’
THE operator of the country’s only calypso radio station has entered the fray with a hard-hitting song about crime.
But Kenny Phillips sang in his calypso of being told he is “on the wrong road” and should leave singing to others.
REHASH, REVAMP, REPEAT
ON Friday January 15, 1999, then-Education Minister Dr. Adesh Nanan told the House of Representatives of a policy of the Panday Government.
“While the previous administration had a report and never acted on it,” Nanan said, “this Government took the initiative to standardise textbooks.”
WILLIAMS, NEHRU AND G20
DR. Eric Williams and Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago and India respectively, held similar worldviews and promoted comparable policies.
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.”