A lesson from the 90’s

THE EDITOR: I wish someone competent would sit down and write a concise, analytical political history of, give or take a year or two, the nineteen nineties in TT!

From the breakup, disintegration and demise of the NAR’s single administration to that of the UNC’s second. The causes and reasons, the lies, half-truths and innuendos revealed and displayed under the full glare and clear focus of unbiased scholarship. The players put under the microscope, their words and actions examined with pure objectivity (and minimum charity!) What a lesson could be learned! Well, might be learned ... we have to understand there are lifetimes of bias and prejudice (and racism) to overcome, persuade and convince, but, still an exercise worthy of the attempt! We might see ourselves more clearly.

GEOFF HUDSON
Port-of-Spain