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Monthly Archives: February 2008

T&T needs better reporters

23-Feb-08

There are many, many things about Trinbagonian media in general, and our newspapers in particular, that make me want to pull my hair out. I am continually bemused by our haphazard approach to errors and corrections, for instance. But it is our apparent lack of reporters who actually understand business, finance, law and (the non [...]

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Archive everything (or, the necessity of cultural historians)

20-Feb-08

To this day I regret not interviewing John La Rose before he died. I regret not following through on a proposed project which would have chronicled the lives of different generations of Trinbagonians in London – The New Lonely Londoners: a documentary by Fred and sin I regret the botched handling and inevitable collapse of [...]

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Beyond politricks

18-Feb-08

When I grow up, I want to write like Michael Harris. I discovered him quite by accident – trawling the (badly implemented but kudos for even having one) RSS feed of the Trinidad Express, lured by the headline “Party politics and the voice of the people.” The man is a true-true political commentator, and an [...]

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