The Spectre of ISIS: Trinidad’s Unfolding Jihadi Nightmare
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"You now have a golden opportunity to do something that many of us here wish we could do right now. You have the ability to terrify the disbelievers in their...
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Are Russia and NATO inching towards a conflict?
2016 ,
The Joint Communique issued by the recent NATO summit, held on July 8-9 in Warsaw, appears to have sown the seeds of a renewed confrontation with Russia. It identifies Russia...
Read MoreChina’s Growing Influence in the Caribbean
2016 ,
In June 2013, during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Trinidad and Tobago, the then Prime Minister of the Caribbean nation, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in a fawning speech, had...
Read MoreThe Failed Coup in Turkey – The Road Ahead
2016 ,
Introduction It is more than two weeks since the abortive coup on the night of 15-16 July took place in Turkey. Although additional information has become available, it is still...
Read MoreMessage from the Indo-Bangladesh Border: `Banijya Basati Lakkhi’
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On July 21, 2016, the prime ministers of India and Bangladesh jointly inaugurated, through video-conferencing, Asia’s largest Integrated Check-Post (ICP) at Petrapole, 95 km from Kolkata, in North 24-Parganas district...
Read MoreSaudi-Israeli Rendezvous: Does it indicate a Policy Change?
2016 ,
The July 22 visit of a Saudi delegation led by retired Major General Anwar Eshki, head of the Jeddah-based Middle East Center for Strategic and Legal Studies, to Israel to...
Read MoreElections in PoK and Protests in Kashmir Valley: The Linkage
2016 ,
Burhan Wani’s death on July 8 occurred just before the elections in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Expectedly, election rhetoric from all concerned political parties, including the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz...
Read MoreJuly 27, 1990: Trinidad’s day of infamy
2016 ,
On Friday, July 27, 1990, Trinidad experienced its own day of infamy when a radical Afro-Trinidadian Islamist group, the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, an Afro-Trinidadian convert to...
Read MoreExtension of the Disturbed Areas Act in Nagaland
2016 ,
Through a Union Home Ministry Notification of June 30, 2016, the Government of India has extended the coverage of the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) to the entire State of Nagaland...
Read MoreInter-State Council and Internal Security
2016 ,
Chairing the 11th meeting of the Inter-State Council (ISC) on July 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that “[t]he nation can only progress if the State and the Centre work...
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