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- 22 December, 2024
WORLD EVENTS MUST PROMPT T&T TO PLANT THE LAND
Trinidad and Tobago, which has suffered from the vagaries of recent food supply issues, should take careful note of the suspension of the wartime grain deal between Russia and Ukraine.
WE HAVE COME TOO FARLEY TO TURN BACK
Young, measured and thoughtful Farley Augustine could emerge as the antidote to the ageing, abrasive and aloof Dr. Keith Rowley.
Augustine’s responsible carriage and refreshing tone were major factors in his emerging political party’s epic defeat of the PNM warhorse, in Rowley’s stomping ground.
THE CARIBBEAN HAS A LEADER!
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s address at the international climate change conference was the most sterling performance of a Caribbean leader in …well, as long as we could remember.
Ms. Mottley spoke truth to power, staring down the world’s leaders and a captive global audience on the urgent environmental issues.
WHY NATIONS FAIL
Why Nations Fail is a book for the current times in Trinidad and Tobago.
The masterpiece was written almost a decade ago after about 15 years of study by two renowned economists.
They concluded that nations succeed not because of culture, geography, weather, or education, but as a result of institutions.
DPP Gaspard , Withdraw this prosecution!
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has compromised the integrity of the pending criminal prosecution case against former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Attorney Gerald Ramdeen.
Mr DPP, what is the difference between the media and Prime Minister?
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi is now declining to publicly comment on the pending criminal prosecution case against former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Attorney Gerald Ramdeen with regards to the indemnity agreement he signed with the State’s main witness British Queen’s Counsel Vincent Nelson. “The sub judice rule applies here to protect the fairness of the criminal process which might be affected by undue publicity.”
The political interference and attempt to subvert and assault the constitution by the Police Service Commission, the President, PM and AG makes Section 34 looks like a tea-party!
The gross hypocrisy of this galloping dictator Keith Christopher Rowley, whose intimate and pathological fractured relationship with the truth and his PNM-led Government’s increasingly authoritarian assaults on ordinary citizens continues.
WHO IS PROTECTING T&T?
Trinidad and Tobago is one of just a few countries in which the crime rate did not dip during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is in spite of a lengthy State of Emergency and patrolled night-time curfew.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that “reported robbery, theft, and burglary declined … by more than 50 percent in most countries” and homicides fell by “25 percent or more in some countries.”
ROWLEY’S SUPPORT OF AN AG WHO HAS LOST VALUE AND GOODWILL
The casual dismissal of raging concerns over Attorney General Faris Al Rawi should serve as a national reckoning.
It shows that, for now, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is the Teflon kid, engaging in plausible deniability and toying with national opinion.
In the middle of the storm, Rowley brought his beleaguered top legal advisor before the national community, only to sneer at rampant criticisms, in his typical blasé manner.
PRESIDENT WEEKES AND ‘THE POINT OF NO RETURN’
In T&T, parliamentary committees are as useless as before they were refashioned a few years ago.
For example, the Joint Select Committee on National Security – mandated to enquire into “crime: the security, safety and protection of citizens” – could only recommend in 2020 that a certain Opposition parliamentarian “should not serve as a member.”
Legislators were idle bystanders as the moving parts of the Police Service Commission sham played out, leading to the overdue resignation of disgraced Chair Bliss Seepersad.
