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Questioning the President
Two Fridays ago, the House of Representatives appointed a Special Select Committee on the “Nomination of a Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police”. According to the Leader of the...
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Presidential transition controversies
One month from now, Trinidad and Tobago will have a new President. As the arrangements for the transition are being put in place, one can only hope that there will not be any controversies associated...
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Who is accurate?
According to CNN on its website on February 9, 2018, reporters Ryan Browne and Barbara Starr said:“US troops participated in anti-terror raids Thursday in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago...
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The failure of federation
Sixty years ago this month, the campaign for the election of the first Parliament of the West Indian Federation on March 25, 1958, was underway. Sir Grantley Adams and his party would emerge victorious...
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Carnival in Lent
With the Carnival season having officially ended at midnight on Carnival Tuesday, it appears that there are lingering elements of a Carnivalesque nature that have overtaken the public square now that...
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To leave or not to leave
At the post-Cabinet media briefing last Thursday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley rejected the position adopted by President Carmona that the Chief Justice is entitled to take sabbatical leave. He...
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Internal election dynamics
“Permit me to get personal on this, I heard my colleague talk about our political opponents. It is not only your political opponents that can do bad things, your political friends can do bad things...
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Tobago autonomy
A Bill “to amend the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to accord self-government to Tobago, to repeal the Tobago House of Assembly Act, Chap. 25:03 and for related matters” was laid...
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Diplomatic briefings
As the foreign policy conundrum involving this country’s vote at the OAS on the request by Dominica to seek a waiver of its annual fees to the organisation for the years 2018 and 2019 continues to...
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Errors of judgment
Last week there were a number of errors of judgment that decorated the public square. The most glaring was the one committed by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in demoting Darryl Smith from the position...
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Preparing for the inevitable
In 1999/2000, the then Panday administration made significant alterations to the Sexual Offences Act 1986. The big issue in 1986 was the question of “marital rape” in section 4.The Chambers...
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The persistence of the Westminster-Whitehall Model
Last week, the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (Salises) held its 19th annual conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica, under the theme Sustainable Futures for the Caribbean.Part of...
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Tobago self-government
On April 1 instant, I wrote on the issue of the Constitution (Amendment)(Tobago Self-Government) Bill 2018. Today, I am following up with another instalment.Section 8 of the bill seeks to empower the...
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Remembering Dr Morgan Job
Last Sunday, Dr Morgan Job, activist, media personality, former parliamentarian and intellectual, passed away. He was someone who made a mark in the society by the passionate manner in which he...
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Changing the guard at the CCJ
The CCJ changed its guard at the farewell session of the court in Antigua last week for Sir Dennis Byron who ended his judicial career and handed the reins over to Mr Justice Adrian Saunders.This will...
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Equality for Tobago and Trinidad
Last Wednesday and Thursday, the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (Salises) of The University of the West Indies (UWI) held two events in Tobago to launch its Outreach...
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No Opposition
For the second time this year and for the seventh time overall in Commonwealth Caribbean national electoral history, one party won all of the seats in the May 24 Barbados general election.T&T had...
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BLP Government and BLP Opposition
The landslide victory by the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in the general election on May 24 instant has had two significant outcomes. The first was the fact that they won all 30 seats at stake and that...
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A T&T federation
As the Joint Select Committee on the Constitution (Amendment)(Tobago Self-Government) Bill 2018 continues, the issue of the “equality of status between the Island of Trinidad and the Island of Tobago...
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Barbados and the IMF
When she unveiled her party’s manifesto on May 10 at Kingsland, Christchurch, BLP Leader Mia Mottley told the crowd as follows: “I said it before that we would do whatever is necessary, that is legal...
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