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Trinidad & Tobago: Crash and Burn?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 @ 14:30 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Trinidad & Tobago
Topics:: Ideas, Cyber-Activism, Development, Economics, Elections, Law, Media, Industry, Politics
Languages:: English

This Beach Called Life is worried about the direction Trinidad & Tobago is taking: “I am certain the economy will soon crash. I am basing my economic prediction, not on a feeling, but on newspaper commentaries, comments by the Governor of the Central Bank and the imbecilic looks on the faces of those in the Ministry of Finance.”

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