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Trinidad & Tobago: 50 Doesn't Add Up

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco

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Posted 4 September 2012 22:26 GMT

How come the nation never learn to grow as a nation from all its peoples and from its individual talents? And how come the money and the success not giving the happiness we stop longing for?

Matters Arising republishes a letter from a friend, commenting on the state of the nation after 50 years of independence.

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