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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Let the layoffs begin

31-Aug-08

Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.The global financial system and the world economy are facing unprecedented challenges, but you wouldn’t know that if you only read Trinidad’s so-called “newspapers.” There has been an almost complete lack of coverage of the meltdown that started in the US housing market, other than occasional [...]

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On the Bank Job and colonial contempt, briefly

03-Aug-08

Finally watched The Bank Job, the plot of which depends heavily upon the activities of one Michael de Freitas, better known as Michael X – black power activist, pimp, and murderer. Michael X was born and bred in Trinidad, a fact which the film continually acknowledges. Am thus extremely irritated by the thick Jamaican accent [...]

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