Commentary

YOUNG A BIG BUSINESS PRIME MINISTER

With his family’s entrepreneurial background and his entrenched commercial interests, Young is likely to become an even greater facilitator of large corporations than Dr. Keith Rowley.

DELIVER US FROM ERLA

Harewood-Christopher is a functionary with none of the required skills to tame the gangsters, inspire the nation and prompt policymakers to make the appropriate investments.

She is not the public official to take T&T out of the hellhole as one of the most violent places on earth, swamped with illicit arms in the hands of thousands of driftless and savage youths.

NEW THEATRE FROM AN OLD CAST

Aside from his 2009 parliamentary attack on then-leader Patrick Manning and 2013 emailgate trickery, Rowley recently used dramatic flair in summoning a midnight Cabinet meeting to remove the Strategic Services Agency chief.

HIMSELF PROBING HIMSELF

UNDER the leadership of Roosevelt Bruce, the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Services fell into a historic state of disrepair and abandonment.

Now, Bruce is chairing a committee to determine what led to the deaths by fire of Government Minister Lisa Morris-Julian and her two children.

NEW THEATRE FROM AN OLD CAST

FOR someone schooled in the unexciting field of volcanoes, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has a showy sense of theatre.

HYPOCRISY IN FIRE PROBE

THE government did not probe the inability of the fire services to save an elderly bedridden partially blind man in a Santa Cruz fire in September 2023.

ROWLEY’S LEGACY AND ‘HOUSE SLAVE’

AS he ebbs toward the end of his political career, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley would bear the image of not using public office to help the lowest in society.

MURDERS ARE PAINFUL, TOO

THE horrific tragedy of Minister Lisa Morris-Julian and her young children’s deaths is indeed “an unbearable loss,” as Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley labelled it.

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.

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.