Things Fall Apart

by Kevin Ramnarine Looking at the pictures from the shootout at the Maracas Valley police station one could not help but reflect on the words of William Butler Yeats’ poem the Second Coming, “Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Yeats...
Posted On 30 Jan 2017
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Mr Prime Minister, talk done, action now!

Good afternoon.   Like so many of our citizens, I am alarmed by the upsurge in violence in the country, with 52 murders (7 unclassified) recorded in just 30 days – the highest in January of any year.  Trinidad and Tobago is in a state of crisis and it is imperative...
Posted On 30 Jan 2017
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Government doing the mannequin challenge while criminals run rampant

Richard Ramlal was reported missing on Sunday morning, January 22, 2017. His body was found floating in a stream at Woodland, Oropouche, on Tuesday afternoon, January 24, 2017. I send condolences to the family of Richard Ramlal and on behalf of the legal fraternity I send deepest...
Posted On 26 Jan 2017
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T&T on track to record 628 murders in 2017, as clueless Government fails to take action

Trinidad and Tobago has already recorded 43 murders for the first 25 days of the year. If this alarming rate continues, the country could see as many as 628 murders in 2017, significantly higher than the previous record of 550 in 2008 under a PNM administration. The Rowley-led...
Posted On 25 Jan 2017
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Moonilal calls for the resignation of the CEPEP Board

The Board of Directors of The CEPEP Company Limited must now resign after a High Court struck down an attempt to prevent me from exposing corruption and other wrongdoing at the company. The taxpayer-owned company had gone to Court to seek to silence me, through a frivolous claim...
Posted On 21 Jan 2017
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Kamla: PM Rowley incapable of dealing with the country’s crime menace

Leader of the Opposition Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Prime Minister Keith Rowley continues to show that he is incapable of dealing with the country’s crime menace. “While Rowley tries to deflect and shift the blame to others, our citizens no longer feel safe in their...
Posted On 19 Jan 2017
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The actions of the Attorney General subvert the express terms of the Constitution

1. I make this statement without prejudice to my firm belief that the legal age for consent to marriage should be eighteen (18) years. 2. In all of the circumstances I call on the Attorney General to disclose the following in the public interest:   The oath of each...
Posted On 18 Jan 2017
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“You farce and out of place, Ambassador Estrada” says Naparima MP

Outgoing ambassador Estrada seems to think that our country is some banana republic where we uncritically, without review, or detailed analysis support without question the dictates and impositions of our colonial masters, or “massas” as our founding father was wont...
Posted On 17 Jan 2017
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UNC Chairman Lee – Yet another young life lost as Government abandons the nation in the fight against crime

The recent murder of 16 year old Rachel Ramkissoon further demonstrates the decay of our society and evolution of our Twin Island Republic into a land of lawlessness where there is no respect for human life as yet another young girl has been robbed of a bright future and life of...
Posted On 15 Jan 2017
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Padarath: Rowley must remove Rolph Balgobin

Princes Town MP Barry Padarath has called on Prime Minister Keith Rowley to remove Dr. Rolph Balgobin, as Chairman of the CLF Board pending an investigation. Padarath stated that Rowley in the past had called on former Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, to remove persons from...
Posted On 13 Jan 2017
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