I doh have no media tabanca.  Some Wired868 readers think I do but I don’t; I swear. I abandoned the conventional media—well, more accurately, the conventional media amputated me—after I had spent four years at the Guardian followed immediately by six at the Express. I have no regrets. There hasn’t been …

The Privy Council decided in 1993—in the case of Pratt and Morgan—that execution could not lawfully take place more than five years after sentence.  It was recommended that a capital appeal should be heard within twelve months of conviction and the entire domestic appeal process completed within two years. I …

Just so that there could be no doubt as to the purpose of Friday’s walkabout in Enterprise, Chaguanas, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, chest puffed out, walked with Deputy Commissioner (Crime) Wayne Dick swinging breezily at his side—hanging slightly to the right. Dick was massive. Verily, Dillon was well pleased …

The Mighty Chalkdust has no more than one month to make a public announcement that that’s it, he’s calling it a day at last. In February, in his 50th year in the business, the former schoolteacher who celebrated his 76th birthday in early March sang “Learn from Arithmetic” to beat out 16 others …

I strongly believe that a lack of patriotism is at the root of the decline of society. There is no sense in being a part-time believer. It is either you are a proponent or you are a foe; you are either for country or you are against country. There really …

In the beginning was the word and the word was with Hart and the word was heart. And the Soca Warriors were looking like the 300, capable of beating tremendous odds. But there was a boy called David who, like the fellah in front in Sparrow’s “Ten to One is …

“Unfortunately, the issue of the dying iguanas is symptomatic of the challenges we face in society. It matters little if the issue is one involving iguanas or non-functional CT scanners, which are merely symptomatic of our dysfunctional health care system, where billions are being spent: crime and gang warfare, bullying …

“Whereas autism is often reflected in poor academics and developmental issues, children diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome usually possess an average or even above average IQ, which means they are not easily diagnosed since they are not inhibited from succeeding academically. “However they may be mislabeled as ‘difficult’, ‘antisocial’, ‘awkward’ and even …

“Time and again, prayer is said to be the best crime plan, as the entire nation is converted into one big “hot spot” and “the Devil” and ‘evil’ get full blame. “While the clueless, talking heads in khaki uniforms boast of how many days Laventille has been “murder-free,” they have …

Quick! Identify one sport in Trinidad and Tobago which, in your opinion, is well run. Did I hear you say “Chess?” Negative. “Cycling?” Okay, so you watched the annual First Citizens Sports Foundation Awards function on television last Friday. Or you read the report in the press on the weekend. …

The Women Soca Warriors couldn’t give Trinidad and Tobago fans the result they needed to put their post-Mexico hangover behind them. But they did entertain in a hard-fought 3-1 defeat to Venezuela last night at the Ato Boldon Stadium. A two-goal salvo from the South Americans within the space of five …

“It is bad captaincy that is causing us to be scrambled, everybody is whispering and shrugging shoulders. ... In this campaign I shall spare nobody… I hereby give notice; I shall not let this question rest until it is corrected… This fooling with the West Indies captaincy has gone on too …