Opinions

By Kamal Persad- Issued 2021 Professor Courtenay Bartholomew has articulated his deep concern about the decline of the black professional class in Trinidad over recent years in a lengthy commentary...

Many countries proclaim that they conduct fair, free and legitimate elections yet the political directorates in these countries either at central or local levels are preoccupied with the manipulation of...

COVID 19 has now become the new buzzword from all tongues across the globe. But it is not a pleasing word, nor is it a word to give all mankind...

Canada has a problem with illegal guns coming into the country and being used in shootings and all manner of crimes. From what I hear, so has Trinidad, though they...

Trinidad and Tobago’s secularism is not fully rooted nor appreciated in the minds and consciences of the national populace. Put politics aside, we now focus on the religious diversity and...

In a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs visited the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy and one of his nemesis followed to get him. To get him off his back Bugs decided...

Scholarship award time has come again in Trinidad and the black community is in the usual agony. Indian students have taken the lion's share of the scholarships once more. But...

Former Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday feels that there are racial overtones as to why this country was not in receipt of Covid 19 vaccines from India. Panday...

An essay on the collapse and coming execution of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in Trinidad is essentially a dirge, a death song on the vision failure of its...

I had to take on a black Guyanese woman Akola Thompson for regurgitating the old song about the mythical powers of mixed race children in the Caribbean. You can read...