HAVE you noticed a recent dramatic increase in the playing of loud music where you work or live? It could be the bar across the road blasting music for patrons every night. Or the Soca fete a kilometre away, yet you can still hear the boom of the base up to 2:00 a.m. […]Read More
OUR country is looking for something positive to say we had a crime free Carnival where we actually have to stress that the Carnival was safe and be grateful to the criminals and the gangs for not killing us and murdering us. Yet we still heard of a terrible incident of the shooting on Ariapita […]Read More
FOR some persons it seems that developing countries have become a financial black hole which continuously needs and owes money. These countries cannot continue being debtors, dependent and viewed in derogatory terms as monetary parasites. There must be a decision to escape from the financial abyss and stop accepting ‘charity’ and handouts from international […]Read More
BRUP! Brup! Look out everyone here comes the morality police beating their chests over the wickedness of carnival, using personally convenient self-twisted biblical quotes (some from religions they themselves do not subscribe to) and admonishing everyone who took part in such a feast of sin. According to the keyboard clacking puritans, Carnival is 100% […]Read More
‘Petrol prices continue to surge but poor Trinidad and Tobago, we no longer have a refinery because the Dr Keith Rowley-led Government decided to close down our refinery and leave it to rust down to nothing’ EVEN though Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has apparently come to his senses and said his […]Read More
THERE have been sanctimonious talk and articles that would offend supporters and participants of Carnival. I will not write about the fetes, questionable songs that are divisive/racist or the millions of dollars spent on our culture. Carnival has its fair share of beauty and bacchanal. The public’s image of Carnival, is often a sensual […]Read More
CARNIVAL season really is bacchanal season oui! The plan was to write an article wishing everyone a safe carnival, don’t be touching people without consent, don’t be body shaming, mind yuh business and have a good time… but then… Like a tsunami rising from the depths of Poseidon’s lost kingdom, tearing through the cities […]Read More
IN a media release on January 30, 2023, the public was informed of the intention of the Rules Committee of the Judiciary to change the regime by which court fees are paid for civil matters. Currently, the Chief Justice has in place an ongoing waiver of payment of court fees for all documents […]Read More
‘Her decision not to fall into the stereotypical female leader “let the country see me as the caring, mother of the nation, who will unite us all through love and kumbayas” role has impressed me’ THERE is a deep chill in the air. It has nothing to do with weather patterns, it […]Read More
WHY must citizens of a poor, struggling country suffer when its brightest minds and talented citizens are attracted to wealthy developed countries? T his is a grave injustice and there is a need to intervene to stop the brain drain. Developed countries should be training their own people and not adopt the lazy and […]Read More