Congrats are in order for Trinidad-born islandista Floella Benjamin who took her seat in Britain’s House of Lords today as a peer for the Liberal Democrats. Her official title is Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham in Kent, but she will be known…
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BREAKING NEWS: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first female PM of Trinidad & Tobago
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[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=Trinidad+elections&iid=8901433" src="3/6/d/5/Opposition_leader_PersadBissessar_7be6.jpg?adImageId=12976890&imageId=8901433" width="380" height="268" /] As Denyse Plummer said it then, it has become now – Woman is boss in Trinidad & Tobago. The news is just in that Kamla Persad-Bissessar will now be the first female…
Terror in Tivoli and women’s role
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And so islandistas, it has come to this. The ugly, jagged and dark side of the Caribbean’s ultimate Jekyll and Hyde island has been unveiling itself in all its horror over the last week as the forces of Dudus have been unleashed…
Island folk at White House Correspondents Dinner
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The biggest night on the Washington D.C. social calendar (outside of the inaugurations of course!) came off on Saturday – the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. US First Lady Michelle Obama looked gorrrrrgeous in a fire-red Prabal Gurung dress! [picapp…
Kamla Persad-Bissessar takes over as Opposition Leader
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She finally did it – Kamla Persad-Bissessar will take her seat today in the Red House in Port-of-Spain as Trinidad & Tobago’s first female Oppostion Leader. On Wednesday, after weeks of public bad john talk from Basdeo Panday and quiet…
10-1 is murder!
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Or so Sparrow said. Yet, despite a 10-1 drubbing by Kamla in the UNC leadership elections, Bas, like Denyse Plummer, ‘nah leaving.’ Not yet. Kamla polled 13, 929 votes to Panday’s 1,359 votes – or more than 10 times as…