Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.Not that anyone in the local media should be asking questions of our politicians, or anything… From the Wall Street Journal: U.S. and U.K. prosecutors are investigating a prominent Canadian businessman for criminal money laundering and bribery as part of a two-year investigation centering on Alcoa [...]
About damn time too. The Express reports: Citizens will no longer need a visa for the French overseas territories once their stay is 30 days or less. Foreign Affairs Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon announced yesterday that following an approach by the Government, the French Government has agreed to exempt nationals of this country travelling to Guadeloupe, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have the right not to justify my existence in this world not to keep the races separate within me not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity not to justify my ethnic legitimacy to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify to identity myself differently than how my parents [...]