Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.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. [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]