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by Rabindra Moonan As the date for the general elections draws closer, the PNM has now emerged as the Limp Force. Starting from the blocks early, spitting fire and brimstone, Rowley and his then gay group have now sputtered as a miserable bunch .Their campaign has faltered badly...

By: Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC WHAT an exciting week since I last wrote for you. I dealt with the gruesome twosome of Rowley and Warner and put them back in their box in a speech in Debe, I was serenaded as I officially opened the Febeau Primary School in San Juan and opened the...

By  Capil Bissoon Ask yourself which Trinidad and Tobago Leader, or for that matter any third world leader, has promised term limits reducing their own powers? Not even the legendary Lee Kuan Yew did. But Kamla has. Which leader has attempted to put more power in the hands of...

by Capil Bissoon Politics makes for very strange bedfellows. Three hard-back men with over 180 years combined and a record of all kinds of tricks—good, bad, dirty and otherwise— are seeking to dethrone one woman, and a grandmother at that! Dr Keith Rowley, Austin Jack Warner and...

By Capil Bissoon Jump high, jump low. there is a sense that our country is now at the crossroads. We have exhausted existing governance paradigms. Institutions like the Financial Intelligence Unit, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Integrity Commission,...

By Parasram “As the woman fell, during the skit, one of the marchers stood over and remonstrated her conduct…marchers of Diego Martin West were interrupted by an uncoordinated woman, again clad in bright yellow and carrying a bottle of rum…The woman lurched as she held her...

By Capil Bissoon PNM sleeper cells are now in full battle cry. They seem to be everywhere, operating on cue, in the most surprising places and are shamelessly singing from the same hymn-book. When I listened to retired Justice Sebastian Ventour, deputy chairman of the Integrity...

By Jai Parasram Keith Rowley is deluding himself into believing that he is the new Eric Williams when all the evidence point to the opposite. I was a reporter during the Williams era and I can say with certainty that Rowley is no Eric Williams. It takes more than a march to...

SUZANNE MILLS Sunday, May 10 2015 During my down time, some random PNM fan on the rant demanded to know why I hadn’t aimed my arrows at MP Vernella of hyphenated surname for her off-coloured comments in the Parliament about someone assumed to be the Opposition Leader. “I’m not in...

If I were an undecided voter I would still be one after last week’s heavily advertised People’s National Movement (PNM) mass national meeting at St Augustine. Such a gathering should have attracted thousands but the meeting was more like a wake than an event by a party aspiring...