T&T SHOULD BE BETTER OFF

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s In­de­pen­dence Day as­sess­ment that Trinidad and To­ba­go should be fur­ther ahead af­ter 64 years of In­de­pen­dence, giv­en the foun­da­tion in­her­it­ed from Britain, has trig­gered a sharp his­tor­i­cal re­buke, with a his­to­ri­an ac­cus­ing her of pre­sent­ing a dis­tort­ed pic­ture of colo­nial rule.