Mrs Fete

Kamla keeps up heavy party schedule Amidst fiery protests in the Siparia constituency and bitter complaints by some constituents that she is missing in action, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is keeping up a heavy party schedule of Carnival fetes, in one instance hitting three — in different parts of the read more…

BLB facing financial crisis?
January 20th 2012 2:38 PMReports are that the Betting Levy Board (BLB) is experiencing financial problem as the taxes from some betting shops are slow in coming. A source said it would appear that certain “bookies” may be putting a squeeze on the BLB. The betting shops are supposed to submit the 10 percent read more…

Stakeholders now part of a New framing committee
January 20th 2012 2:28 PMThe Arima Race Club (ARC) has put in place a new committee to frame races. The stakeholders are now going to have an input into how races are being framed following allegations that races were being framed for certain trainers. ARC President Hugh Lee King told this column that the read more…

SoE 2011: The case for an SoE in 1973
January 20th 2012 2:17 PMARE we heading for another State of Emergency? Are we on the brink of another 1970-style happening that ended in chaos and confusion and everyone confined to their homes. Certain elements of the society are today becoming just as brave, or even braver than they were in 1970. Almost every read more…

Mayaro Mas launch
January 20th 2012 1:42 PMHUNDREDS came out for the launch of Regional Carnival 2012 in Mayaro last Saturday. The event took off at the Mayaro Recreational Ground and saw a number of traditional mas characters parading through the streets of Mayaro. Minister of Arts of Multiculturalism Minister Winston “Gypsy” Peters, who was present for read more…

Kamla setting women back
January 20th 2012 1:38 PM“Instead of the iron fist in a velvet glove we were promised on the hustings, we are treated to sash wearing, truck-bed riding, magazine posing, beauty queen behavior while the country is circling the drain. I pointed out during the campaign that she offered nothing of substance then, and sadly she read more…

De Prime Minister eh dey
January 20th 2012 1:27 PMI have never accepted V. S. Naipaul’s description of our society as being half-made or our people as mimic men and women. Some years ago I wrote a trenchant criticism of Naipaul’s work in which I responded to those designations in an effective manner. For the past three weeks I read more…



