As oil prices continue to fall and stupidity keeps rising, Trinidad and Tobago citizens capable of rational thought and non-partisan ideas are under siege and increasingly desperate to earn a living. Faced with the possibility of having to disconnect SportsMax, Mr Live Wire secretly filled out a form at a …
Read More »Live Wire notes: LifeSport rebooted, SIS’ land grab and trolling Anand
If God is really a Trini, then he must be a Jehovah’s Witness. Because He certainly has not shown the stomach for intervening in local political affairs. Another weekend and another round of head shaking news as Trinidad and Tobago journalists try to keep up with what passes for administration …
Read More »Cameron’s back! WICB turkeys vote for Thanksgiving
At best, the majority of the West Indies Cricket Board’s territories are sadomasochistic. At worst, they are suicidal. Either way, regional cricket fans should look forward to be on the receiving end of some hearty spankings in both the immediate and distant future. And it would probably be sensible to …
Read More »What a Twit! WICB president ignites new scandal with Gayle jibe
The West Indies Cricket Team belatedly peered out from behind the dark clouds this morning with a comprehensive win over Pakistan in their second 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup outing. But they did not take their controversial boss Dave Cameron into the sunlight with them. It is just as well, …
Read More »Machel who?! Keith Rowdy and a rubber-waist cop take Road March
There is a time and a place for everything. Context, in other words, is key. On 21 October 2014, Leeds United’s Italian defender Giuseppe Bellusci remonstrated angrily with Norwich City striker Cameron Jerome and shouted “negro” at the latter player. An FA charge of racial abuse swiftly followed. The FA …
Read More »Who you calling Ho?! Live Wire examines Newsday’s titillating headline
Ho ho ho! Like jumping behind a stranger and trying to ram your groin into her back pocket, some indiscretions are only culturally acceptable during a particular period of the year. Any other time and you’re facing sexual assault charges and, possibly, psychological evaluation. And the Trinidad Newsday newspaper, according …
Read More »Mr Live Wire: You’re too politically wound-up when…
Last week, a 62-year-old woman decided to go to an all-inclusive party after work. That grandmother also turned out to be the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Cue pandemonium on Faceboook. According to who you listened to, Kamla Persad-Bissessar should have been: at work trying to raise the price …
Read More »The Lone Ranger rides out as PM shuffles her jokers
First, the good news: Kamla Persad-Bissessar has stepped down as Minister of the People—a possible concession that she has no idea what the people of Trinidad and Tobago want anymore. And the bad news? She is still Prime Minister. Something like cricketer Daren Ganga in his latter days when he …
Read More »Riding West: Shooting soca stars, perverse AG and troubled PM
Former Sport Minister Anil Roberts made a surprise return to the public eye today at the memorial service for beloved television host Marcia Henville. No doubt it was not the funeral Roberts had hoped to attend. Roberts was accompanied by his beautiful young wife and, by all accounts, they were …
Read More »Larry Houdini, Machel the false profit and a corporation in retreat
There is no sugar coating this. When your Finance Minister is afraid to answer questions on financial transparency and conflicts of interest from, of all people, Jack Warner, you know that you’re in way too deep. If Larry Howai thinks his reputation—or what remained of it after his $10 million …
Read More »The Minions attack Bunji; Mr Live Wire joins racist letter exchange
You have purpose… People see you trying hard to prevail in life, Make you feel that without them you going to fail in life, As you start to grow your strength and you making strides, Their minions come to crucify like they nailing Christ, Look at all of them and …
Read More »Photographer’s rough close-up; wheelchair man outruns police
Alleged drug trafficker Matthew Soo-Chan was so irate at having his picture taken on his exit from the Tunapuna Magistrate’s Court yesterday that he physically lashed out at Newsday photographer Angelo Marcelle. So much for marijuana being a harmless and jolly, recreational drug. Soo-Chan must have been on that stuff …
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