racial politics

I was doing some house-cleaning of my facebook profile - getting rid of groups and apps that weren't needed - and discovered something funnycurious (as they say in T&T - yes, foreigner, it means strange).  The number of members of the COP, PNM and UNC groups on facebook - 3,400, 2,900 & 880 respectively - is way less, even in total, than the 11,500 folks who joined the group 2 million against $2million flag!! In other wor

I have voted only four times in my life¹ - one local government and three national elections.  And 100% of my voting pattern can be explained by a single factor - I voted for the Muslim candidate.²  Combine that bit of information with my surname and it's easy to conclude that my vote is driven simply by identity politics.³

In the Sunday Express, Selwyn Ryan wrote

...Mr Panday is also correct when he notes that corruption, on its own, does not decide elections in Trinidad: Race does...

Taran questioned whether this assumption about Trinidadian politics remains valid, pointing out that