And the 2024 Calypso Monarch crown goes to: Argentina’s Lionel Messi! Who mother can’t believe that one, eh? Well, actually the TUCO judges had to confine their choice by geography—and, in particular, the 12 calypsonians who crossed the Queen’s Park Savannah stage with mic in hand last night. So, instead, …
Read More »Piggy, pussy and politics: Live Wire on Watson Duke’s bizarre local govt campaign launch
If you know you lack the muscle to handle the weight of a woman’s expectation, sometimes it is best to say upfront: I cyah make, darling. You’re not helping anyone when you take the keys to a Heavy T van when you know full well that you’re accustomed to riding …
Read More »Missing the Faris for the trees? Mr Live Wire gets another political lecture from a mysterious man
(Scene: A dapper gentleman examines a humble lodging with notable admiration.) FAR: I love the more intimate office space, boss. I can get from one end to the next far quicker than at my last office, which is bound to make me even more less-dynamic. The decor is more than …
Read More »Protesters push back against ‘little prick’; Live Wire alarmed as tension boils over at QPS
On the eve of the Government’s scheduled launch of its Public Sector and Public Service Vaccination programme, protesters, led by Umar Abdullah of the First Wave Movement, took to the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain to, well, protest. Mr Live Wire is not sure what is more ironic: …
Read More »Live Wire sheds a tear as Minister of Hypocrisy uses time-travel to join Boxing Day boat party
24 December: The Ministry of Health urges citizens to ‘keep the festivities at home this year’ and ‘celebrate responsibly within your household bubble’. 26 December: Party promoter Adrian Scoon accepts close to 100 paying patrons on to his pleasure boat, Ocean Pelican, for a ‘Seaside Brunch Party’—only it is not …
Read More »Anyone for ‘Covid roulette’? Live Wire has an uncomfortable experience on Scoon’s ‘pleasure boat’
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and with Trinidad and Tobago recording an average of 23 deaths a day, 100 persons headed to west Trinidad for a boat lime—allegedly put on by Adrian Scoon, the son of Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon. According to one advert for …
Read More »Live Wire: US police, not Lifetime, picks up alleged murder plot from Guardian columnist, Hadeed
Trinidad Express editorial writer: I’m so bad-arse that despite criticism from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Chinese embassy, Sinopharm Beijing and thousands of readers over a ‘scientific experiment’ so weak that any five-year-old familiar with the works of Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz would roll their eyes, I just wrote …
Read More »Oh for f*ris sake! Live Wire underwhelmed as AG meets unions, plus Keithos loses ‘dictator membership’
Faris (pronounced far-risk) Verb: (1) to half-arse a task for the superficial benefit of being seen to do it. ‘When it was her time to wash the wares, Aaliyah farissed them studiously—she left them almost as dirty as they were before.’ Noun: a person with a comically disproportionate view of …
Read More »No, Faris, ‘superfluous’ is NOT a compliment; Live Wire picks up the pieces after GG judgment
This week, Trinidad and Tobago witnessed a breathtaking lack of administrative foresight accompanied by a paralysed executive branch with a side order of absent checks and balances. The outcome? Pandemonium in one of the most respected offices of the land, with citizens left feeling uncertain and disoriented while media reports …
Read More »The Case of Superballs: Mr Live Wire cracks cryptic code of Nicki Minaj
(Scene: A private room. A mainstream reporter, whose identity has been protected to avoid her being trolled half to death, vents to Mr Live Wire.) Mainstream Reporter: […] So I’ve had it up to here with this narcissistic, thin-skinned, empty-headed, all flash and no substance, fountain of made-up information, skin-teeth …
Read More »Mr Live Wire: Dem is people to watch!
When long holiday reach, yet ah certain fellah breaking his neck to get to work—dem is people to watch; When yuh killing yuhself for big ‘acting’ title but can’t even ‘act’ like a half-decent human-being most of the time—dem is people to watch; When the same MP who cried political …
Read More »‘If thy right hand offendeth, pluck it out!’ Griffith in damage control after Express exposé
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith responded promptly to allegations against his ‘right hand man’ and head of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Legal Unit, Christian Chandler, today by immediately informing the public that the latter employee had ‘proceeded on leave’. And by ‘promptly’ we don’t mean as soon …
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