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- 23 December, 2024
KING, GANDHI AND T&T
EVERY third Monday of January, the United States observes a federal holiday in honour of civil rights icon Martin Luther King.
BETTER DAYS NOT COMING
IN his takedown of the authorities in Better Days Are Coming, Black Stalin agonised about the savagery of crime in Trinidad and Tobago. “My son
BRITAIN PLEDGED REPARATIONS TO T&T
A BRAND-NEW international report states that Britain had pledged to provide reparations for slavery to the people of Trinidad and Tobago at the end of colonialism in 1962. The arrangement is being called “one of the most effective reparations measures in history.”
WHAT ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR’!
HERE is a sobering fact to consider with Trinidad and Tobago now the most violent small space on earth. Between 1995 and 1999, murders totalled 520 (122, 106, 101, 98 and 93), and yet then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday inserted himself into the hot seat as National Security Minister.
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.
DON’T HURRY BACK, JACOB
IN a serious land, acting police chief McDonald Jacob would have been told to go on an extended vacation.
TALE OF TWO LEADERS – MIA AND M.I.A.
The charismatic Barbadian leader delivered a broadside against developed countries on the urgent issue of climate change. In contrast, when Trinidad and Tobago was recently hit with heavy rains, possibly caused by climate change, Ms. Mottley’s Caricom colleague Dr. Keith Rowley had virtually no presence.
BRITAIN, CANADA WARN NATIONALS ABOUT TERRORISM IN T&T
THE American authorities are not the only ones warning their citizens about the risk of terrorism in Trinidad and Tobago. The British and Canadian administrations have issued similar but separate caution to their nationals.
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?
