“[…] The very prosperity that slavery brought to British capital was to eventually make slavery redundant. The capital accumulated throughout slavery led to investments in science, technology and engineering, created the industrial revolution, brought into being productive forces based on machinery, speeded up the process of proletarianisation of the British …
Read More »ESC to unveil special monument during online 2020 Emancipation celebrations
“[…] Unlike other Emancipation celebrations, which included a festive, colourful procession through the streets of Port-of-Spain and ending at the Queen’s Park Savannah, this year’s Emancipation Day will be observed online. “[…] People who traditionally participate on the day are encouraged to share their personal observances with the ESCTT via …
Read More »Griffith: Health Ministry said Commissioner’s Cup can play with no coaches or subs; so what about CPL?!
“Today, the [Trinidad and Tobago Police Service] received correspondence from the Ministry of Health’s State Counsel 1 indicating that the Commissioner’s Cup can indeed be allowed to proceed but that it must do so with a total of only 25 persons per game. “We are at a loss to understand …
Read More »Colleen Holder: My dad, ‘Mac’, and other media workers never fully recovered after 27 July 1990
“[…] Even though ‘Mac’ and his colleagues were sent for counselling by the company, he never fully recovered. I am sure the same can be said for many of the others…” The following letter to the editor on the personal toll of the attempted coup by the Jamaat Al-Muslimeen on …
Read More »Bally: TUCO execs pocketed TT$1.7 mil in four years; and here’s why it’s wrong
“[…] At the next meeting, I expressed my dissatisfaction with [TUCO president Lutalo ‘Bro Resistance’ Masimba] acquiring this large sum of money and asked what would a sponsor think if, when giving TUCO a million dollars, they were not aware that 20% goes to the president. No answer. “[…] On …
Read More »Memories of Sir Everton Weekes: ‘Reds’ Perreira recalls two great innings by late West Indies maestro
“[…] I still remember watching Sir Everton Weekes during that third Test in Bourda, when he scored 81 out of a paltry West Indies total of 182. “Wickets were falling continuously around him—[JK] Holt (12), [Jeffrey] Stollmeyer (16), [Clyde] Walcott (8), [Frank] Worrell (5), Garfield Sobers (12) and Denis Atkinson (13) …
Read More »“Put it in the regulations, if it is so critical!” CoP accuses Health Ministry of ‘mixed messages’
“[…] Why keep advising us not to do something, but not put it in the regulations if it is so critical and so important that he keeps having to say it at every media briefing? “[…] Some schools and clubs are allowing those over 18 years old alone to play …
Read More »Dear editor: Did TTPS ‘plant’ evidence in Morvant killing? Will there be consequences?
“[…] On the fateful day, the Guard and Emergency Branch not only moved the bodies but also picked up spent shells, wrecked the vehicle and left the scene bare—as if nothing happened there 15 minutes ago. It left the crime scene investigators with almost nothing to work with when they …
Read More »Dear editor: ‘Recalcitrant minority’ is example of phrase abused to suit sinister agenda
“[…] The phrase ‘recalcitrant minority’ is one such case, particularly as it relates to Trinbagonian politics. Often labelled as a discriminatory and hateful phrase by sections of our society, research on the word recalcitrant reveals that the word itself has no sinister connotation. “How then did such a phrase become …
Read More »Griffith: CMO’s discouragement of youth sport is illogical and can divert youth to ‘criminal avenues’
“[…] Preventing or trying to persuade young people not to play sport after being boxed in their homes for months, is an avenue that can frustrate many young persons. And hence their energies can very well be diverted in non-productive, if not criminal avenues. “[…] Might I also add that …
Read More »NWU: Covid-19 has not changed law for employees, despite what the ‘new normalisers’ say
“[…] Over the past few months the ‘new normalisers’ have been busy ‘new normalising’ by cutting pay, cutting hours, sometimes cutting pay AND hours at the same time, dismissing workers (sorry, letting associates go) and laying off ‘associates’ with no pay and restructuring…” The following column, which urges employees to …
Read More »‘It was a pleasure working with you’; Wallace officially resigns from SSFL
“[…] It was a pleasure working with you and members of the executive over the last three years…” The following is a letter of resignation by Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) president William Wallace, which was offered on Monday—in the wake of criticism over his stewardship of the Trinidad and …
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