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The utter shamelessness of Kevan Gibbs and the TT Guardian
Compare:
Baby Doc Duvalier’s return evokes Haiti’s dark past – BBC (Jan 19 2011)
Papa Doc first came to power in 1957, when he is said to have won free and fair elections.
A popular figure at first, he became increasingly authoritarian and eccentric, keeping control of the country thanks to the sinister Tontons Macoutes who acted with impunity to silence any opposition.
In 1964 Papa Doc had himself declared president for life.
Baby Doc Returns – TT Guardian/Kevan Gibbs (Jan 23 2011)
Papa Doc first came to power in 1957, when he is said to have won elections.
A popular figure at first, he became increasingly authoritarian, keeping control of the country thanks to the Tontons Macoutes who acted with impunity to silence any opposition. In 1964 Papa Doc had himself declared president for life.
Plaigirism is not journalism. Nor is it new to the T&T media, whose editors, as usual, appear to be asleep.
With high hopes for 2011…
Come on T&T. Let’s do better than we have done before. Let’s not give Minshall cause to deplore the country’s path afresh:
November 4 2007 / Trinidad Guardian
I look on in silence as a rising tide of ignorance threatens to engulf the island people. The promise and potential of an Athens of the New World is being blindly devoured by petty tribal rivalries and insecurities of skin and hair, ancestry and religion.
That bright illuminating spark of true Caribbean culture, its hybrid brilliance aglow before Independence, is put out, sold out to a cult of greed and power at any cost.
A cancer of corruption corrodes the body politic, a corruption of spirit, a primitive, barbaric immorality of soul. The beautiful island TAPESTRY is being torn to shreds. A monument to enormous gaudy crassness replaces it, casting a dark, dangerous and murderous shadow.
I look aside in shame. I feed the birds. I water the plants. I engage the company of the dogs and the cat with love, respect and wonderment.
Minshall
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