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T&T needs better reporters

23-Feb-08

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 [...]

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Beyond politricks

18-Feb-08

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 [...]

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Thoughts on the “Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People”

15-Feb-08

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 [...]

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