A personal and political analysis of Eric Williams' contribution to nationalist ideas and to the way nationalism was perceived and was directly or indirectly beneficial to many of Mohammed's generation
The 'Olympian' level of corruption in Trinidad and Tobago politics is discussed, as well as the seemingly incongruousness of the electorate sending back such a 'naked kleptocracy' as the Basdeo Panday regime
Profiles an Asian-Caribbean-American on American racial politics. Dr. M. Godfrey Mungal, born in Trinidad and now teaches at Stanford University, was an Indian laborer brought to the Caribbean by plantation owners after the abolition of slavery.
"On 4 December 1960 the Trinidad Guardian announced that Sir Gerald Wight had joined the Democratic Labour Party. The announcement was presented in such a way as to suggest that this was a feather in the cap of the Democratic Labour Party [DLP], and therefore the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago should follow the lead of Sir Gerald Wight. Consequently, in my address here in the University on 22 December, in which I reported to the people the outcome of the Chaguaramas discussions in Tobago, I poured scorn on the Guardian reminding them that our population of today was far too alert and sophisticated to fall for any such claptrap. I told the Guardian emphatically: Massa Day Done." (author)
Argues that the current proposal to reform the local government sector in Trinidad and Tobago stems from an eclectic application of various strands of thought that are in no way in keeping with the realities of the social and political environment of the country.
