What message does it send to have leadership that sees 500 murders (and counting)—the vast majority of which were committed by men—and sees fit to blame women?
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” was a funny little fable until I realised I was living it in real time.
How is it that our Education Minister is already out here publicly embarrassing us less than a week after Independence Day?
How did Deyalsingh manage to give this speech without googling “midwifery” to grasp how women have been learning about breastfeeding since the palaeolithic era?
Our leaders can’t hide behind procurement legislation when the issue is why they can’t seem to work together to maintain our ageing infrastructure.
When the people of the Beetham and Laventille get fed up of the ongoing sewage leaks and block the roads again, I doh want to hear none ah allyuh whining.
You can always count on the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds to stick his foot in his mouth The man has never met a crime controversy he didn’t want to dive into.
What kind of person looks at a video of terrified children being shushed by their, no doubt, equally terrified teacher as gunshots ring out nearby and calls it “quite misleading”?
I wonder if we’ll ever get around to envisioning an approach to addressing our spiralling crime rate that doesn’t amount to cheering for extrajudicial killers.
Trinidad and Tobago is having a tough time right now. The world is slipping into a recession, COVID refuses to acknowledge our collective efforts to pretend it doesn’t exist, and our government is besieged by a combination of microphone malfunctions and an “irritated” population.