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“Too black to be Prime Minister”: the shackles of mental slavery
“Too black to be Prime Minister”: the shackles of mental slavery

Sir Ronald Sanders
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday February 13, 2014 – Of all the offensive – and unintelligent – statements made in the politics of the post-independence Caribbean, an assertion, that Dr Keith Rowley, the leader of the Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago, is “too black” to be Prime Minister, has to rate as the worst.
It is a telling indictment of the person through whose mind the thought passed without perishing and from whose mouth the stupidity was uttered. Fitzgerald Hinds, a former Senator of Mr Rowley’s political party, the Peoples National Movement (PNM), is the person reported to have made the statement to a party political meeting. He is also reported to have said that “a group of businessmen and former PNM ministers have agreed that Dr Rowley was “too dark in complexion to become prime minister.” Continue reading
Tales of the Rupununi Cattle Trail – By Dmitri Allicock
Tales of the Rupununi Cattle Trail
By Dmitri Allicock
Cattle, cowboys and horses, creeks, rivers, wooden bridges, swamps, rain, mosquitoes, jaguars and snakes are the ingredients for a great imaginative western movie and can be found in the stories of the movement of herds of cattle from the grasslands of Rupununi to the coastal marketplace of British Guiana, just shy of a hundred years ago. Continue reading