When the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit in mid-August this year, many were in shock; some even thought it was the end. Warnings of raging tropical storms/hurricanes largely go unnoticed in sweet T&T. Instead, we bring out the rum, puncheon and babash. Recall the road to Manzanilla was cut off not …
Read More »Salaam: Massy Stores’ plastic furore; and its relevance to the fight to save our environment
There aren’t too many red-blooded Trinis who can truthfully say they don’t like a little kangkatang or, a lil bacchanal. Four groups know that better than most and exploit it to the hilt: the calypsonians, the comedians, the politicians and the media—and I agree with those who say that it …
Read More »Dear Editor: OSHA, EMA are sitting on their hands as Petrotrin poisons Gulf of Paria!
“Petrotrin’s top management is guilty of the criminal action known as ‘reckless indifference’. […] BP was fined billions by the US authorities for the Deep Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. […] Petrotrin continues to do what BP did in the Gulf of Mexico with no significant cost to …
Read More »Water, water everywhere but is it safe to drink?
“For years we have heard from environmental experts about the impact of leachate from our landfills and the negative impacts that can have on groundwater. We have only recently heard that our potable (drinking) water may have traces of lead. “Just that idea is frightening since lead is a pervasive environmental …
Read More »Bush Diary 2: A camera man, a producer and a presenter walk into a forest…
Paolo Kernahan, fresh from completing the second Bush Diary DVD, suggests we take a closer look at our natural environment: Three men, loaded like mules with camera equipment and supplies, stand at the forest’s edge. The romanticism of producing a local nature documentary series in Trinidad and Tobago got them …
Read More »Waste worse than corruption: Raffique Shah points out cost of our nasty ways
A recent World Bank report ranked Trinidad and Tobago as the country that generates the most “municipal solid waste”, on a per capita basis, in the world. Every man, woman and child in this country, on average, every day, generates—according to the World Bank data—a mind-boggling 14.4 kilograms of garbage. …
Read More »Letter to the Editor: Why doesn’t EMA protect residents from noise pollution?
The following Letter to the Editor was sent to Wired868 by Josephine S Aché as a call to arms against noise pollution, which intensifies during the Carnival season: This is an Open Letter to The Air Committee, responsible for the Out In South Fete, held at the SAPA Car Park …
Read More »Toyota Earth Day: Snakes, bakes and a good Easter morning
The first thing I knew as I walk onto the Toyota compound at Barataria is that there is bake and shark to be had; anyone with a nose would know it immediately. It isn’t the famous Maracas variety which scores of families who have opted to spend the day at …
Read More »Hwy Re-Route: PM puts greed over T&T environment
The Highway Re-Route Movement claims that Trinidad and Tobago faces an environmental tipping point in the fight to save endangered wetlands: Even as Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was boasting to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday that her Government emphasizes human development and not “concrete, steel and …
Read More »Letter for Dr Kublalsingh: Give us highway cost benefit analysis
21 November 2012 Mr. Emmanuel George, Minister of Works & Infrastructure, Port of Spain Dear Sir, I write to you in response to the Prime Minister’s call for friends and supporters of Dr Kublalsingh to help in the resolution of the impasse relating to the concerns of the Re-route …
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