Even in the dim light from the overcast skies and heavy rain, the night walkers were clearly visible. With confused looks on their faces, they wandered across the country from one closed business place to the next—with increasingly unsteady strides—in search of flesh from the recently dead. Thankfully, KFC promised …

Natasha Barrow, formerly the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs’ Permanent Secretary and Sport Minister Darryl Smith’s personal travel agent, is on the move in the first notable fall-out at the MoSYA after last month’s infamous Tobago splurge at the Magdalena. Barrow authorised a TT$92,000 bill for 12 ministry officials—including Sport …

One day, there will be public relations lectures on the worst response humanly possible to an embarrassing media report. It will go like this: blame your second-in-command, defend yourself with lies that can easily be cross-checked, call critics haters and insist that it wasn’t really a mistake anyway, based on …

First, the good news. Thank God that Tourism Minister Shamfa Cudjoe didn’t ask her Cabinet colleague, Darryl Smith, to tag along to the Bahamas. There has been precious little worth celebrating at the Ministry of Sport ever since the super-sized Diego Martin Central MP squeezed through the front door and …

Sometime on the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and seventeen, verily Trinidad and Tobago was smitten with a mysterious sign. As the funeral for the late Dr Anthony Norman Sabga ORTT took place at the Church of the Assumption on Long Circular Road, …

No sex education for over-sexed students? Playing dress up with teachers? Half-hour lunch breaks for primary school children? Education Minister Anthony Garcia is on a roll. The bad news is, as always, he is heading downhill. Super Fast Garcia was at it again yesterday when, while pointing to a shift …

Scene: Boardroom at an undisclosed location. (Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley tells his colleagues on the National Security Council and a few specially invited guests to expect an important visitor. There is a knock at the door). Keithos: Come in, boy. (Crown Trace resident and Unruly gang member Abdul “Krysis” Wakeel …

Just so that there could be no doubt as to the purpose of Friday’s walkabout in Enterprise, Chaguanas, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, chest puffed out, walked with Deputy Commissioner (Crime) Wayne Dick swinging breezily at his side—hanging slightly to the right. Dick was massive. Verily, Dillon was well pleased …

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” SE Hinton, The Outsiders. Somewhere in Trinidad and Tobago, there is likely to be a high powered national security meeting going on right now. But it will have little to do with catching the killer of WPC Nyasha …

Warning: As you read this satire, dozens—maybe hundreds—of abusers and killers of women are walking around Trinidad and Tobago, just trying to mind their own business and stay out of trouble. Inexplicably, young women are provoking them to murder by inadvertently being too slow to outrun them, too weak to …

When you have just finished sermonising, in the wake of a murdered young woman, and the first person to offer you a “thumbs up” would probably be ex-Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee… Maybe you didn’t appeal to the target audience you had in mind. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley …

First, the good news. Diego Martin Central MP Darryl Smith apparently has a firm grip on his staff at the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. At first glance, the image of Minister Heavy D putting his hand on an employee from the communication department seemed like a throwback to …