Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.Back in 2008, I wrote a piece that argued thus, on the subject of my preferred “hairstyle”: I am my hair. I am challenging, I am defiant, I do not apologize. And the next time some Wall Street multimillionaire or Oxbridge-educated middle-aged perpetually entitled white British [...]
I wrote this, elsewhere, three months ago: I am a stranger. I am estranged. I am a person without a country, without people, without kin. I rely more often on the kindness of strangers than the loyalty of friends. I watch those I love and loved and lost create lives in which I play no [...]
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 [...]
And no, I’m not talking about Armageddon as induced by the Large Hadron Collider or Sarah Palin becoming president of the United States of America. I’m talking about the incredible series of events unfolding as I write this, events that have shaken Wall Street, the City of London and the global financial system to its [...]
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 [...]