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At 64: choose country (opens the original)
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As Trinidad and Tobago marked 64 years of Independence, one question kept returning to me: when a Prime Minister addresses the nation, who exactly are they addressing? The answer ought to be simple: the nation. Not the party, not a political base, not one ethnic or religious community, but the nation entire. That distinction matters here more than almost anywhere else, because our defining national achievement has been the construction of a common society out of people with radically different r
The independence we still have to earn (opens the original)
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There is an old household rule that has aged better than most childhood lessons: if you want something, you work for it. No child in any Trini house was raised to expect the world to hand over anything for free. Effort had value. Anything received without cost or sacrifice was, in time, taken for granted. The same is true of nations. Independence is not something a country can afford to take for granted either and yet, year after year, that is precisely the risk this country runs. On the night o
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