- 7 April, 2025
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!
The election of 37-year-old Humza Yousaf to lead the Scottish National Party means he is almost a shoo-in as Scotland’s first non-White head of Government.
T&T FAILS TO MAKE TOP 137 HAPPY COUNTRIES
VIOLENCE-RIDDLED Trinidad and Tobago is not among the top 137 countries when it comes to happiness.
CORRUPTION ALIVE IN T&T, SAYS NEW US REPORT
CORRUPTION is alive and well in Trinidad and Tobago, a brand-new United States report has said.
‘BLOODY TUESDAY’ – A GENERATION LATER
MARCH 18 is another anniversary of the most brutal assault on the local working masses in modern history. Scores of police officers – including baton-wielding new recruits – savagely attacked workers as they launched a public march for “Peace, Bread and Justice” that Tuesday 1975 morning.
PIARCO NOT IN WORLD’S TOP 100 AIRPORTS
The same agency, Skytrax, which named Piarco as the Caribbean’s best, did not include the Trinidad and Tobago airport among the globe’s leading 100 for 2023.
MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR CORRUPTION WILD GOOSE CHASE
THIS is a Cabinet Note on granting $66.3 million of taxpayer funds to three British firms to urgently hunt down corrupt figures. The matter went to Cabinet on July 24, 2020.
PM’S DISTURBING ATTACK ON JUSTICE
CONSIDER this.
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has attacked Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard for asking for more human resources to bring criminal accused to trial.
MALICOUS PROSECUTION IN FAILED PANDAY CASE?
THE age-old Piarco Airport corruption case involving former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and others may have one more round in count. This time the former accused may bring a legal case of malicious prosecution.
PIARCO CASE: HOW POLITICS RUINED JUSTICE
PATRICK Manning had a clear-cut political strategy. “Always go for the top,” Manning once explained, “and the rest would crumble.”
T&T STILL OUT, AS GUYANA, INDIA CONFIRM ENERGY TIES
INDIA and Guyana are cementing closer economic ties. Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has just returned from a six-day visit to India, during which he initialled a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the energy sector.
