- 12 July, 2025
POVERTY AND THE ELECTRICITY RATE INCREASE
The electricity rate increase would add to the financial misery of the 38 per cent of citizens, who, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), exist in “multidimensional poverty.”
DOES ROWLEY HAVE HUBRIS SYNDROME?
Rowley’s leadership of T&T has been demarked by his unwillingness to accept censure and critical analysis, his combustible manner and his snobbish style.
ROWLEY TAKES A CHILL PILL
THE public apology over crime by National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds is part of an attempt by the Government’s top brass to create a humble outlook ahead of the crucial general election.
IRFAAN ALI STANDS ALONE ON REPARATIONS
DR. Irfaan Ali, the transformative leader of Guyana, is standing alone in championing slavery reparations for Caribbean societies.
Dr. Ali has not received any public support from Caricom or any regional leaders following a recent “vile” and “condescending” interview with a British television morning show.
BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS
A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl in Britain was stabbed to death on Thursday, and the media and public commentators reacted with horror and urgency.
“The carnage and the cruelty must end,” the Daily Express said in its Friday editorial.
$35 M GUAYA FISH FACILITY STILL ABANDONED
THE $35 million Guayaguayare Fishing Landing Facility, completed by the Kamla Persad-Bissessar Administration, remains abandoned while the community is continuing to suffer.
PUBLIC SERVICE COLLAPSING
PEOPLE have not been able to get electronic birth certificates for the past few weeks because of a shortage of appropriate polymer paper.
The Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs has been telling applicants that there is a breakdown of relevant machines.
T&T OUT OF SLAVERY REPARATIONS
TRINIDAD and Tobago is the odd man out as the Caribbean is making headway in obtaining reparations for the evil of chattel slavery.
T&T does not even have a constituted Reparations Committee, while Guyana has received an apology from descendants of former slave owners.
WHAT G20 SUMMIT MEANS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
THE sprawling Bharat Mandapam International Exhibition-Convention Centre at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi is the venue of the first summit of G20 nations to be held in South Asia.
ANOTHER BUSINESS LEADER FINDS HIS VOICE
Dr. Thackwray “Dax” Driver, Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Chamber, is now saying that it cannot be business as usual.
