If only Mrs Carmona could rest a belt on “Lord Pussyfoot.” But, for more reasons than one, we know it isn’t going to happen. The President’s House, meticulous in shipping out pre-action protocol letters and demanding apologies, was less efficient at its bread and butter business yesterday, when it messed …
Read More »T&T has a new PM! Rowley takes over town; Kamla shuts down
Taxi for Kamla Persad-Bissessar! In the end, it transpired that Trinidad and Tobago was not the only thing that the UNC political leader had not been properly servicing. After a less than gracious concession speech, the Siparia MP hopped into “PM1”, only for the vehicle to refuse to budge. Who …
Read More »PNM or People’s Partnership? Live Wire gives his final word before September 7
Scene: A haggard figure knocks firmly on a white, wooden door and then sits on the step to catch his breath. Suddenly, the door swings open and sends the visitor catspraddling into a parked car. A mystical figure emerges from behind the door… Patriot (shaken): Mr Live Wire, I presume? Live …
Read More »Rowley has no time for Integrity; he’s trying to be T&T Prime Minister
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley will not allow himself to be sidetracked by matters of integrity as he continues his campaign to be elected as Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister. Well, that’s a load off the minds of people who are afraid of a radical change in governance. At a …
Read More »Honeypot Rottweiler and Hindu/Krystian PM; Bas and Patos talk Elections 2015
Scene: Residence of former Prime Minister Patrick Manning. His old Parliamentary colleague, fellow Presentation College, San Fernando alumni and ex-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday takes a seat. Patrick Manning: What would you like to drink old friend? Basdeo Panday: Ahmm… Gimme a Carib there, old man. Ahmm… Stiff and cold like …
Read More »Pay-per-view: Express on the ledge; Mr Live Wire tries to talk newspaper down
Paging Minister of the People and Social Development Christine Newallo-Hosein to the Brian Lara Promenade! The Trinidad Express Newspaper climbed on a ledge in downtown Port of Spain this morning and threatened to jump back into the next millennium. And, bizarrely, it asked its readers to join in. On page …
Read More »Rowley’s inflamed Gumbs; Wired868 investigates bizarre harassment case
In what would probably go down as the worst “sex scandal” since an Australian Senator offered ex-Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Ato Boldon a Tim Tam, Trinidad Express investigative journalist, Anika Gumbs, quit her job yesterday after being left “mentally scarred and traumatised” by a series of meetings with a character …
Read More »Blunder after plunder: Kamla discusses Reshmi, LifeSport and Vikings in odd Q&A
“Have you ever seen a TV show called Vikings?” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar asked Dr Morgan Job, who was one of her three interviewers last night. ‘Vikings’, in case you don’t know, is an Irish-Canadian television drama that is not short of historical inaccuracies but big on sacking and plundering. …
Read More »Police crank up whispering war against Jamaat in deadly Game of Thrones
It is getting hot in middle Earth. Today, a purported internal Police document was relayed from the Head of Special branch, which claimed that the Jamaat-Al-Muslimeen (JAM) was “moving arms and ammunitions to the North and San Fernando” and had planned to “target the Prime Minister’s residence” and free the …
Read More »Tips play over: ‘Monster’ begs for return to jail where it is safe
Escaped prisoner Christopher “Monster” Selby spent roughly 54 hours as a free man in Trinidad this weekend. And then he decided life was sweeter in jail and turned himself in at the Barataria Police Station. Was it the high gas prices, Monster? Did you have a tiff with Mrs Monster? Did you …
Read More »Facebook felon breaks out of POS prison; Live Wire investigates drama
Well, that was bacchanal. Trinidad and Tobago was so hot yesterday even Jack Warner considered asking the US Attorney General for a plane ticket. At around noon yesterday, Port of Spain inmate Hassan Atwell and two fellow prisoners Allan “Scanny” Martin and Christopher “Monster” Selby made a daring jailbreak. But …
Read More »Warner and the Third Force suffer their Cosby moments
What do Bill Cosby, Jack Warner and the Third Force Movement have in common? All three were hilarious in their own way—certainly, if you enjoy ironic comedy—but, mostly, you would have to be high on something to take any of them seriously. And, whether they like it or not, the …
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