Author: Ramesh Deosaran

Beneath the political noise and PNM confusion over the Prime Minister’s proposed appointment of Stuart Young, SC, as PM, the question must be asked: Who really caused all this? It is political leader Dr Rowley’s miscalculation: he put the cart too far before the horse. Why doesn’t Dr Rowley actually step down as political leader […]

During the Christmas season, a group of friends with mixed political loyalties, like so many citizens now, were expressing serious concerns about public-safety issues – crime, murders, corruption, politics. During the agitated discussion, blame was put on several high public officials whose names were loudly, even angrily, called out. There were blaming, fingerpointing, etc, accompanied […]

Moruga “mom hacked to death,” screamed big front-page headlines. Hours after that, Michelle Benjamin (MP for Moruga/Tableland) cried, shedding tears, as she explained, not only for the murdered wife and judicial support officer, Stacy Gopaulsingh but “for all other murdered people in my constituency and the country.” Others – relatives and citizens – shed tears […]

This mystifying political mess with senior citizens’ pensions could not have come at a worse time. The sudden withdrawal of the Miscellaneous (Senior Citizens’ Pension and Public Assistance) Bill 2024 in which a savings “exceeding $25,000” would have disqualified senior citizens from getting a pension raises two related issues: • The shocking twists and turns […]

Having perused the Report of the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform (197 pages), I congratulate the eight-member committee, chaired by former speaker Barry Sinanan, for its obviously hard work in producing a viable basis to stimulate citizens’ interest in several critical constitutional matters – political representation, political performance, accountability and small-state democracy as a […]

Look, politics is not for everybody; neither is everybody made for politics. Politics, especially party politics, can damage reputations, cause deep embarrassment and even damage families. Of course, it is profitable for some, but there is lot of collateral damage in and through politics. But the brave and ambitious stick it out, with or without […]

On November 23, through a TV broadcast, I heard Nizam Mohammed, a member of the Constitution Advisory Committee and former speaker, strongly objecting to the “recolonising” of the society by “the number of elitist, foreign, voluntary organisations across the country.” We should no longer be copycats, he asserted. More passionately, he advocated constitution reform with […]