Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.To the editors and reporters of the Trinidad Guardian who might be reading this: Hi. The Liming House here. Today I happened to catch the attention of the folk(s) behind @TriniGuardian. As I’m inclined to do whenever I read one of your pieces, I was engaging [...]
A friend forwarded me the following Guardian story, which was published on Friday with the sensational headline: Trinis drink more alcohol than water—Hospedales In a word, awful. In two words, bloody awful. Any more words and this post will no longer be fit for children. But as I am of late attempting to be constructive [...]
Several months ago, I bemoaned T&T’s “apparent lack of reporters who actually understand business, finance, law”. The absence of sufficiently qualified finance and business reporters from the halls of T&T’s newsrooms is even more galling now, as the global financial crisis deepens. And make no mistake, it is a crisis – one that few people [...]
For the sake of my blood pressure, I try not to read the local newspapers. This is difficult, given my obsession with news and media and my day job as a reporter, and more often than not I succumb. And each time I pick up a copy of the Trinidad Express, or the Guardian, or [...]
Trinidadian newspapers infuriate me. I’ve already written at length about their lack of a systematic corrections policy, and the superficiality of much of our reporting; today’s bugbear is their casual approach to bylines. In the context of a newspaper article, a byline is simply the name and often, the title or position of the person(s) [...]