BY KEN ALI The adulation that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar received from Tobago is another firm indication of the political realities in the sister isle. Tobagonians...

By KEN ALI There is a marked decline in cocaine transship­ment off Trinidad and Tobago amid the United States maritime crack­down, US reports reveal. T&T’s drug...

… after Rowley failed to seal porous borders By KEN ALI The ar­rests last week of vicious gangsters on the high seas reveal that there is...

CDAP’s $1B a year headache By KEN ALI The cost of Chronic Dis­ease Assistance Programme (CDAP) drugs is a major head­ache for taxpayers. That is why the...

A few days after the re­cent general election, the board of directors of a State-funded institution held a lavish social function for the former...

By KEN ALI Colm Imbert, the Government’s poster boy of hubris, was always go­ing to land in trouble with the people. Within months of Im­bert becoming...

By KEN ALI Just over a year ago, a Caricom team monitored the general election in Dominica. The electoral observ­ers were invited by Prime Minister Roos­evelt...

By KEN ALI Months before the security crisis in Haiti descended into its cur­rent anarchy, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley pledged to work toward an...

By KEN ALI During the revolution­ary 1970s, trade unions and civ­ic groups mobilised consumer placard protests with a catch­phrase. “Pass by/Mamaguy/But don’t buy!”That was before one...

By KEN ALI The relevant Gypsy issue is not whether he should participate in the calypso monarch contest. That should be ob­vious to everyone, in­cluding those...