- 11 April, 2025
A BLOODY CHRISTMAS
SOMEDAY at Christmas, Stevie Wonder sang, “men won’t be boys, playing with bombs like kids play with toys”. If we supplant “bomb” with “guns,” that could be Trinidad and Tobago’s fervent yuletide hope.
More oppression of the masses…
DO you see a link between the shocking expose at the Paria probe and the gross neglect of flood victims? It is instructive that when the powers-that-be finally responded, it was to send in showman Faris Al Rawi and his bumbling sidekick Rohan Sinanan.
DOTISHNESS ON TOP OF INCOMPETENCE
In the midst of the great floods of 2022, there was clearly no monitoring and situational awareness, so the authorities were unprepared for the silt-ridden Caroni River breaking its bank. And when Rohan Sinanan made a roadway available to harassed commuters, it was the Priority Bus Route, which runs along the eastern corridor and, therefore, provides no relief to stranded southern commuters.
AL RAWI AND THE THEATRE OF FLOODS
FARIS Al Rawi is a man of theatre who lives for centre stage.
CRIME – WHY WORSE MAY BE AHEAD
When crime became rampant in Laventille, the authorities – instead of fixing the problem – gave Despers a new home at the site of an abandoned government building at Tragarete Road, Port of Spain.
PNM OUTRAGE OVER HINDS’ FB POST
EMBATTLED National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds is getting no love from senior PNM colleagues over his contentious Facebook post after the Rose Hill shooting horror.
TICKING CRIME BOMB
REMEMBER a few months ago when Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley spoke of making crime a public health issue?
HYMC NATION
NAZMA Muller’s blunt placard – “Imbert HYMC” – is a political message of the ages.
It succinctly expresses the aggravation of the common man across the land.
‘THIS INEPT MADNESS CANNOT GO ON’
There is nothing wrong with the rich getting richer.” – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, August 13, 2020.
ARE you taking note of the financial chaos in Britain as the new Government is making the rich richer?
Finance Minister backed down from CDAP, SEA aid
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert backed down in his Budget presentation on original plans to ease the current hardship on the small man.
