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Dear Editor: After studying and working abroad for some years, I returned home to Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 and I quickly became interested in the politics of the time. I felt that the COP represented my interests and I threw my support behind them. I sincerely believed they...

Dear Editor: Since August 1962, citizens have been clamouring for a proper Constitution. All have been severely deficient. At last, in May 2010 voters mandated for its major overhaul to be done. Now that the parliamentary debate on Constitution reform has finally begun, what has...

Dear Editor: In this season of Constitutional Reform overload, I am elated to inform the national community on the positive changes occurring in my community. When the joint soldier-police patrols started about two months ago, it was widely criticised by the Opposition and those...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has dismissed allegations of her Government’s neglect and discrimination towards Opposition constituencies. Persad-Bissessar made the statement at the launch of the $82 million Diego Martin Highway expansion project at playpark, Victoria...

Why are people under the assumption if their party of choice gets dropped out and is not longer a viable option in the run-off election they are being forced to vote for a party they do not support? If that is the case, you simply don’t vote in the run-off election if you so...

The recent constitution amendments, especially the one with regards to a runoff election has caused much controversy over the few days. The loudest voices in the media are arguing that it represents a threat and an assault on the democratic process. I however fail to see the...

 I have been paying attention to the ongoing debate on the constitutional amendment and cannot understand the fuss about the run-off vote. From what I have read and heard, the amendment says that in any constituency in a general election if no one gets more than 50 per cent of...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in a demonstration of her fundamental belief of true democracy, has relieved members of her Cabinet of the doctrine of collective responsibility by allowing all of them to vote according to conscience on the Constitution (Amendment) Bill,...

By Capil Bissoon One of the principal issues coming out of the discussion on the Government’s Constitution (Amendment) Bill is fear of change and it is manifesting itself mostly in the provision for run-off elections. There is nothing anti-democratic or dictatorial about it and...

ATTEMPTS to blur the facts of the current constitutional reform debate for narrow political purposes will only serve to hurt the citizens and our country, Public Relations Officer of the United National Congress, Rodney Charles has said. Charles was responding to comments by the...