Guest Columns

Not since Roman prefect Pontius Pilate made a grand show of washing his hands—during a dodgy and memorable case immortalised in the New Testament—has a legislative body shown so much enthusiasm for ridding itself of a matter and so little stomach for taking responsibility for its decision. Rather than make …

“Other women will fall in love with your husband.” These are not words you want to hear, especially while the blush and glow of your first anniversary is heating your blood and warming your soul. No, you do not want to hear those words, especially not from your father. You …

HL MENCKEN suggests that “under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” I could find no quote more discomforting in its truth about the situation here in Trinidad and Tobago. There …

There is a local video making the rounds that has me quite disturbed. The video appears to have been shot on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook in the wee hours of morning on Sunday March 29. (Click HERE to view video). It starts with an irate female violently venting her frustrations on …

Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews shares another powerful love story with Wired868:  “I missed you,” he says. She has just stepped through the door and he meets her at the threshold and wraps his arms around her. Her face finds its place between his neck and shoulder and she breathes in his …

Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews shares an enduring love with Wired868: When she was eleven, she fell in love. There were no fireworks or lightning bolts but it was intense, life-altering… and forever. It was the first time she read a romance novel. It was written by Barbara Cartland, set in the …

“My Cabinet colleagues are really a good bunch of people based on what I have seen,” Sport Minister Brent Sancho told Wired868. “Every discussion that they have in Parliament and outside of Parliament is for the better of Trinidad and Tobago. The Prime Minister in particular has really impressed me… …

“I know qualification always seems to be a topic but I don’t get what qualification you’re supposed to have to be a Sport Minister,” Sport Minister Brent Sancho told Wired868. “Are you supposed to go to university and study to be a Sport Minister? “I think experience is the greatest …

Leroy Calliste or, as he is better known, the “Black Stalin” is no ordinary Calypsonian. He has used his artistic ability to be a voice of the nation. His entire career has been about “taking care of de people business.” I became a Stalin fan before I ever dreamed of …

There are several traits that quality leaders must possess, which include being able to: Relate and Inspire; Organize, Manage and Motivate; Innovate and Achieve; Envision; Endure; Make Good Things Happen; be Strong but not Brittle, and Recruit and Raise Leaders. The one that has the most telling impact on a …

Wired868 abandons satire in this series to go straight for the forehead: Call me Ishmael. The name my mother gave me not too good at the moment; so is best to use this one to get a Government cheque. I work CEPEP, or 10-days as allyuh like to call it. …

At the height of the Chaguanas West by-election last year, I wrote an article titled “Sinking in the mud” which highlighted the low level of campaigning and the depths to which some candidates sank in order to win votes. I wrote at the time “the rhetoric from the various campaigns …