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Central FC players still owed $308k from glory years; is Sancho partly responsible for T&T football’s slide?
Dear Editor: In wake of maxi strike, can we forget politics and talk rapid rail again?
Dr Harris: To Mother Trinidad and Tobago, a Mother should never promote divisiveness between her children…
“Fed up of the disrespect!” T&T Men’s and Women’s players hit out at TTFA president
Dr Teelucksingh: My lesson in medical care from a daughter of the canefields
South Korea spank Soca Warriors 5-0; King’s troops out of their depth
Hatt: Why criticism from coaches is also important for developing athletes
King: Once we defend well, scoring chances will come; Kobi named T&T captain for S/Korea friendly
Warner: “Inequality in T&T is no longer subtle—we’re entering dangerous territory”
Dear Editor: The sell-out of Rocky Point; the problem with Aboud’s Tobago deal

Tag Archives: Abolition of Slavery

Dr Harris: Re-examining T&T’s foreign policy through prism of Capitalism and Slavery

Sunday 29 March 2026 Guest Columns, Letters to the Editor, View Point 0

“[…] In Dr Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery, he used historical analysis of a vast number of sources to put forward his seminal thesis: West Indian sugar fuelled Britain’s industrial revolution, and slavery in the British Empire was abolished not because of humanitarian arguments, benevolence or acknowledging the atrocities of …

Emancipating old narratives of ‘emancipation’ and examining colonials’ ‘deceitful bait-and-switch’

Sunday 16 August 2020 Guest Columns, View Point 0

In defiance of the rapid community spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, kept the promise he made on Emancipation Day 2019 to unveil T&T’s first emancipation monument—the only live public event on Emancipation Day 2020. Like many thousands of other Trinbagonians, I missed the commemorative spectacles of the …