- 26 July, 2025
SoEs FAILED IN JAMAICA, HAITI
STATES of Emergency have failed to curb dreadful crime rates in Jamaica and Haiti.
Both countries introduced and then extended SoEs to limit the crisis of murders and other violent crimes.
ROWLEY’S CONSTITUTION REFORM FAILURE
A YEAR after Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley promised reform to the national constitution, the pledge is becoming another political failure.
Rowley’s assurance of modification to the constitution is now unlikely to take place before this year’s general election.
COULD ROWLEY SELL YOUNG TO THE PNM?
A FEW months ago, Professor Selwyn Cudjoe offered stirring advice to Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley about his successor.
“The PM must be careful about imposing (Stuart) Young or any member of the moneyed class on the party, when the party’s base consists mostly of Black people,” Cudjoe wrote.
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.
T&T AND HAITI – THE BRUTAL TRUTH
In Haiti, gangs are ruling several communities to the point where the authorities and visitors do not enter.
In T&T, gangs briefly blocked St. Paul Street in inner city Port of Spain a few months ago, and armed-to-the-teeth criminals put fear into delivery drivers and service providers entering hotspot zones.
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.
Is Rowley lying on the SOFA?
STATUS of Forces Agreements (SOFA) with regional countries permit United States operatives to “enter and exit” at will and be granted widespread exemptions and immunities and not comply with local laws.
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.
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.