February, 2008

NAME : CALDER HART
D.O.B. : JUNE 11TH 1945
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Commerce from St. Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1962 – 1966
Worked
for the city Government of Ottawa. He was about to be fired for
incompetence, insolence, lack of integrity and insubordination when he
left for Trinidad on the invitation of Mr. Andre Monteil, a senior
executive with CLICO, his former class mate.

He claims to have
studied at MIT for his MBA – to date this cannot be confirmed
irrefutably. He cannot remember his lecturers names and they cannot
remember his. He claims to have studied at the Sloan Business School at
MIT in 1969. No one remembers him. He claims to have worked for the
city Government of Toronto as a town planner. This cannot be confirmed.

JOB STATUS:
Chairman of UDECOTT
Chairman, CEO and Managing Director of the Trinidad & Tobago Mortgage and Finance Co. (TTMF)
Chairman of NIPDEC
Chairman of NIB.
(Many staff members of the above institutions say that Mr. Hart is a very unpleasant person to work with.)
CITIZENSHIP: Canada and Trinidad & Tobago

Miss Aliya Bose, in her letter to the editor, warns that the American people should not be fooled by Barack Obama and that race is a key factor in his success.

It should be noted that Obama speaks about the politics of change. He wants to do away with the dominance of Washington. However, what is essential is that he wants to unite the people of the United States and this appeal is working for him. Hence, he has won a number of states traditionally dominated by white voters, with Maine being the most recent. He is also popular among white male voters and this is increasing daily.

We must remember that Bill Clinton injected race into the elections prior to the primary in South Carolina. Obama is what America needs-a new leader with a personality free of scandal and corruption. Can Hillary Clinton really speak to Americans about family life or morality? Voters in the United States are moving away from the politics of race, unlike their counterparts in Trinidad and Tobago.

Shivan Maharaj

This story breaks my heart and makes my blood boil... read only if you have the stomach for it...

The Untold Kidnapping

By Anand Ramlogan
Sunday Guardian
14th January 2007

‘I was stripped of all my dignity,’ she said quietly. Hands covering her face, she recounted the details of her kidnapping. She had come to see me because she read my columns and felt that I would understand and ‘feel’ her pain. She wanted to tell me her about her experience.

Kidnapping is so organized that there are several groups involved, with each one performing a specific duty. Team A , the abduction team, snatched the victim. Team A handed her over to Team B (the transportation team) at an undisclosed location that was only made known to it after a few calls from someone who gave careful, specific directions.