Author: Ramesh Deosaran

An unprecedented White House blowout occurred last week between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky causing a dejected Zelensky to hurriedly exit the White House in a daze. He wanted Trump’s help. It was a discussion over the Russia-Ukraine war. Still, it fiercely illustrated what a greater power can do to a […]

This is a humanitarian cause. It is worth spending a little time considering during Carnival. Man, woman and child have to use a small fishing boat to cross a river to go to work, shopping or school. The 100-year-old shaky bridge connecting their homes to the outside world collapsed about ten months ago after several […]

Just back from Miami, I find our country noisier and more divisive than before I left. But while the political heat is rising, the bottom-line question that must be asked is whether this country will be led to a safer, better place after the elections. Who will likely do it, and how? So the electorate […]

Prime minister-designate Stuart Young, SC, is destined to be a decisive factor one way or another in the coming election. He is entering at a time when several of our public institutions remain broken, with low levels of public confidence, when crime and national security face lingering troubles, when income inequity expands, when our foreign […]

As countries around the world hunger for peacemaking, unifying and visionary leaders, up comes the enigmatic 78-year-old Donald Trump in a historic victory as America’s 47th President. Having lost the presidency four years ago, many said he couldn’t do it. But he taught them unforgettable lessons about courage, determination and the value of being a […]

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 […]