“Budget 2026 is a declaration that Trinidad and Tobago is back on course… When UNC wins, everybody wins!” Minister of Finance, Davendranath Tancoo. The desk thumping and back slapping in response to the Budget delivery reminded me of the declaration by US President George Bush in 2003. After six weeks …
Read More »Noble: The WASA freeco—is it really the poor who suffer from disconnections?
Thirty years ago, Frico was a famous milk brand which offered free children’s toys in each tin. A ‘freeco’ was different: an event in which some could enjoy benefits for no money, yet others would have to pay for it. It is like the ‘comps’ for the young today. Given …
Read More »Noble: Wasting a crisis; Le Hunte wanted Cabinet to invest in our future—and they didn’t listen
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before,” Rahm Emanuel, (2008). The context for that quote—which is really a riff off one made by Paul Romer, who in …
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