- 12 May, 2025
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.
THE EXTRAORDINARY GRENFELL KISSOON
GRENFELL Kissoon was one of the hostages at Maraval Road during the 1990 bloody insurrection.
MINIMUM WAGE PAPPYSHOW
Minister of Labour (it turns out we have such an official) Stephen McClashie was quoted as saying an amended minimum wage would be announced in coming weeks.
ROWLEY’S DYING POLITICAL BRAND
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley came into national office in 2015 with his unique macho brand, which he had honed from two decades as the so-called “PNM Rottweiler,” a take-no-prisoners antagonist.
YES, LOAD UP THE ‘MATIC!
Stand Your Ground laws have become common around the world as a result of the prevalence of crimes with high-powered weapons, brazen invasions of properties, and widespread incidence of brutal assaults, including rape.
WHAT ROGET LEARNT THE HARD WAY
ANCEL ROGET is a poor student of labour history. Clearly, the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) leader knows little – and cares even less – about a PNM administration authorising blows upon workers and wrecking a protest in March 1975, in what has since been labelled “Bloody Tuesday.”
MR. EMAILGATE CRIES FOUL
FARLEY Augustine has some fancy political footworks. Just over 18 months in the chair at the Tobago House of Assembly, he has weathered textbook PNM dirty tricks and is facing up to his self-inflicted political wounds.
‘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.