The United States Embassy revealed today that US Treasury economic crime advisor, John Murphy, is working with the Trinidad and Tobago Government, just days after US President Donald Trump’s phone call to local Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley. Murphy, according to the US Embassy, will help the Trinidad and Tobago …
Read More »PM’s comment on domestic abuse is not the whole story; and therein lies the danger!
“Women choosing bad partners is not the whole story of domestic violence. Indeed, domestic violence is not the whole story, either, of violence against women. “Girls and women do also get raped and killed by complete strangers. Just getting into a taxi can bring this upon us. Not all female …
Read More »Fixing T&T: Does Fr Harvey believe abused parishioners should have chosen their priest wisely?
Fixin’ T&T’s open question to Fr Clyde Harvey who asserts that the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s recent reckless and callous statement was right: All of the persons across the world who have been abused and exploited by Catholic Priests… Is it that they did not choose their Priest wisely? …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Men and women should stop the blame game and work together
“It is my firm belief that until we find a way to make an intervention in the homes, and until the overwhelming majority of Trinbagonian homes are wholesome, functional, nurturing places for children, we are engaging in mass self-deceit if we believe anything will change significantly anytime in the future.” …
Read More »Letter to Editor: No time to play with Trinidad and Tobago’s future, Mr PM… Innovate!
“You, sir, are in the sunset of your career; you are in a position to set the stage for the greatest show on earth. Not Carnival but an island of innovation. “Dr [Keith] Rowley, we are in a lot of trouble and we need you to become the leader you …
Read More »Murder at MovieTowne: Why two T&T Prime Ministers got their responses very wrong
The recent murder in MovieTowne is the second to take place at that location. It has had several reverberations, which are as great as those that accompanied the first one, fourteen years ago. On both occasions our Prime Ministers made insensitive remarks in the aftermath of the murder. On the …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Rowley shouldn’t apologise for sensible approach to domestic violence
“Regrettably, I have observed recently that certain organisations established with the objective of empowering and protecting women have perhaps, unwittingly, been promoting—by implication—recklessness, given their lack of support for the Prime Minister’s call for personal responsibility as one of the obvious measures in the protection of women. “These organisations ought …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Rowley’s nauseous statement and Faris’ spin is another Gov’t own goal
“The Prime Minister has a couple days to pull his foot out of his mouth or his cassavas out of the wood fire, even as the Farris Wheel goes at the media for incorrectly ‘contextualising’ the Prime Minister’s statement.” The following Letter to the Editor on Prime Minister Dr Keith …
Read More »Rowley in Leggings: Live Wire considers PM’s advice on spotting murderers
When you have just finished sermonising, in the wake of a murdered young woman, and the first person to offer you a “thumbs up” would probably be ex-Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee… Maybe you didn’t appeal to the target audience you had in mind. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley …
Read More »Letter to Editor: Why Grant’s link of Rowley and TEDx is not an idea worth spreading
“TEDx Talks are about “ideas worth spreading”. The speaker is tasked with building an idea in the mind of the audience. “Did the Prime Minister do that? The jury is still out…” The following Letter to the Editor on columnist Lennox Grant’s criticism of a speech by Prime Minister Dr …
Read More »A PNM lapse? What 2016 LGE results say about path to future electoral success
“Neither party can claim to have made the gains required for a genuine, meaningful victory. That would have required capturing the ILP’s—and, to a lesser extent, the COP’s—space. “Combined, the ILP/COP share amounted to 133,400 votes. The UNC gained some 58,900 votes, meaning that some 74,500 votes or 21% of …
Read More »Tone deaf: Daly examines response from both parties to local election results
My musically accomplished friends tell me that to be tone deaf means to be unable to distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes. In common usage tone deafness has a wider meaning, namely a person unable to discern the different nuances of a situation. We had a local government …
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