Tag Archives: 2015 general elections

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; …

Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) party organiser Akins Vidale makes a case for the Trade Union Movement (TUM) to be seen as a viable political third party: The pats on the back have been too many to count since the 2013 Local Government National Debate. However, on too many occasions, …

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 …

HL MENCKEN suggests that “under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” I could find no quote more discomforting in its truth about the situation here in Trinidad and Tobago. There …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Mr Live Wire tries to illuminate discombobulated citizens without big words on the constitutional positions of the UNC, COP and PNM; what it means for Independents; why Prakash Ramadhar is a self-hating turkey and who won the last Lotto Plus: Take the second left, then right, then what? I’m lost!! …