Monday, October 6, 2025

MABURRO vs. DRUMPF

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 My wife asked me this  morning about how I felt about the Americans flying their war planes over Venezuela. The question got me to thinking...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

HAS MABURRO MADE LIFE BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE?

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 It strikes me as very strange that those who support Maburro (the misspelling is deliberate) and are criticizing  the Americans for "i...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

"THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY..."

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 "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". I think that everybody (or almost everybody) believes that this old saying, which, like mos...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

WHY ARE MUSEUMS IMPORTANT?

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 There are three questions about museums - 1) What are they for? 2) How do they tell society's stories? 3) Who gets to decide? I think t...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE A YEAR AGO?

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 Let's call a spade a spade. Politics in Trinidad is race driven; it shouldn\t be, of course, but it is. Both politival parties are hope...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

ARE THE RECENT BOARD APPOINTMENTS BY THE NEW UNC GOV'T RACIST IN NATURE?

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 The Chairman of the Opposition Party - the PNM - is quoted in the newspaper as saying in essence that the recent appointments to State boar...
Monday, July 7, 2025

'INDEPEDENT' SENATORS?

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 Question: what exactly is an "independent"  Senator? Webster's dictionary defines "independent" as being 'free ...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

KAMLA"S PROBLEM

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 The Prime Minister has a serious problem: her credibility is at stake. Her problem stems from the promises that were made before the last e...
Friday, June 20, 2025

WHY CORPUS CHRISTI IS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN T&T

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 When I was a young lawyer an old Queen's Counsel told me: "If you ever want to understand a problem go back to basics". I hav...
Monday, May 26, 2025

LOOKING AGAIN AT OUR NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

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 Before going further, I think that its important to note that I agree with ALL of the reasons for Indian Arrival Day and Emancipation Day a...
Friday, May 16, 2025

A CASE FOR TOLERANCE

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 THE country (T&T) has become noticeably less tolerant of divergent views and opinions over the last few years. Whether this is simply c...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

GETTING THINGS BETTER?

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Evwerybody lies. I read somewhere that the average person lies between twenty to a hundred times a day. But what about the people who we ele...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

HAPPY EASTER

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 Today (easter Sunday) marks the most important festival (for want of a better word) in the Christian calendar. Indeed, you cannot be a Chri...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

THE COMING ELECTION

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 Well, at the time of writing this post there are less than two weeks before the general election. The UNC continues to pull large crowds - ...
Monday, April 7, 2025

ELECTION MESSAGING

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 Clearly, what wins elections is better messaging and better candidates - especially at the top of the ticket. So the questions are, or ough...