Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) party organiser Akins Vidale makes a case for the Trade Union Movement (TUM) to be seen as a viable political third party: The pats on the back have been too many to count since the 2013 Local Government National Debate. However, on too many occasions, …
Read More »Fruity politics: Live Wire responds to mango-gate by trying his arm
On 13 April 2015, 63-year-old Trinidad and Tobago businessman Danne Patrick Costelloe joined a select club of adventure seekers who journeyed to the ends of the earth and braved treacherous conditions and sub-zero temperatures to scale the North Pole. Mr Live Wire cannot confirm that Costelloe intended to stay there …
Read More »Vote in, vote out, repeat: T&T electorate’s recurring nightmare
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 …
Read More »Jesus and the MP; Mr Live Wire overhears a divine chat with a PP Pastor
Scene: Online. Four men and a divine being meet for a conference call on Skype. MP Pastor Rodger Samuel (in an excited voice): Everyone, shush! We have Him on the line… Sat Maharaj: Who the arse yuh shushing?! (Audible groans from several unidentified voices.) JC: Good day, everyone. And thanks …
Read More »Shocking Toppin: Tobago East MP molests Rowley family… And Charlotteville!
The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament was yesterday the scene of the most spectacularly unsuccessful revenge missions since a one-armed bounty hunter cornered “Tuco” in a bathtub in the classic western movie, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” “I see hate, I see bitterness, I see acrimony, I see animosity …
Read More »Party gone! Colm leads PNM conga line out of Parliament
It was the biggest and best coordinated mass evacuation of a Trinidad venue since Machel Montano finished singing “Like a Boss” at the 2015 Soca Monarch final. If the next General Election does not go as planned, PNM MP Colm Imbert could at least look forward to a future with …
Read More »Kyat fight! Rowley sinks his teeth into fresh controversy
Well, Sport Minister Brent Sancho is not the only fellah in Cabinet who knows what it is like to score an own goal. Then again, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has hired so many own goal specialists that the People’s Partnership Government should probably be investigated for match fixing. All the same, …
Read More »Decoding the Constitution: Live Wire solves riddle without big words
Mr Live Wire tries to illuminate discombobulated citizens without big words on the constitutional positions of the UNC, COP and PNM; what it means for Independents; why Prakash Ramadhar is a self-hating turkey and who won the last Lotto Plus: Take the second left, then right, then what? I’m lost!! …
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