Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday attempted to extricate herself from the email scandal with information supposedly sourced from Google. Again. For the third time. Seriously. All Mr Live Wire is saying is that Google apparently has more branches than Linda’s Bakery. “This letter proves Mr Rowley created fake e-mails for …
Read More »Kamla ignores Police and IC to sanction Rowley for ignoring Police and IC
Now, please have a seat for this one. The People’s Partnership Government yesterday imposed the ultimate sanction on Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley for taking email transcripts to Parliament without waiting for authentication by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service or the Integrity Commission. And the People’s Partnership, whose charge …
Read More »Flight of the century: Manny fails to catch Moneytrain
A five-year wait for that?! Five years in eager anticipation of the “fight of the century” only to be treated to a defending champion happy to duck and spin away towards safety while scoring weak points, from a safe distance, on a spritely contender. But enough about Kamla versus Keithos; …
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 »PNM treasurer praises FIFA “mafia”; will the Rottweiler bite back?
PNM treasurer and Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee continued his alleged double-life as a “mafia man” today when he figuratively kissed the ring of his professed godfather and FIFA president, Sepp Blatter. Well, that is what Opposition Leader Keith Rowley thinks anyway. “I knew long ago that FIFA …
Read More »Fack Fucebook: PP voyeurs defile social media
Remember when Facebook was about puppies with guilty faces, funny clips of adventurous babies and vacation photos? Hold that thought for a bit. Hold it. Now exhale. You have a better chance of fitting into your Form One school uniform than seeing that place again. Now Facebook has become a …
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 »Live Wire notes: Police pull kyat tail; plus media vs media vs media…
Read slowly: The police are about to launch a police investigation into the actions of the police in conducting a nationwide exercise that used police officers to frustrate motorists and essentially bring Trinidad and Tobago to a standstill. The police top brass have asked for two weeks to find out …
Read More »Policemen decide to work; stunned country shuts down
There was always a distinct possibility that, on the day local policemen collectively took their jobs seriously, Trinidad and Tobago would cease to function. Gangsters would hide in their mummy’s closets, corrupt Ministers would head for Panama, Jack Warner would lock himself in his underground vault and the Devil would …
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, …
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