I paid more detailed attention to the Budget debates this year because our country is so down. The Opposition had little fresh content to offer. Most contributions represented attempts to fight over the General Election, which it lost nine weeks ago. The Opposition is so bazodee that, despite its recent …
Read More »Dear Editor: Anil’s attack on TTOC president is unwarranted and hypocritical
“[…] Mr Brian Lewis is not the only individual to head a sporting body with a political affiliation. Mr Azim Bassarath, chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board currently serves as a UNC Alderman in the Princes Town Regional Corporation and has appeared on national political platforms. “Is Anil …
Read More »Noble: How Hinds’ suffocating arrogance and Kamla’s noisy Senators are ‘disses’ to the nation
The Urban dictionary defines dissing as ‘utterances of a (dis)respectful nature’ and goes on to add ‘not doing right thing… not showing common decency’ and ‘not creating balance in our world’. Twice this week, we were forced to witness our leaders dissing us and contributing to keeping our world off-kilter. …
Read More »Ramsaran’s sack Naila! Supermarkets pull products as backlash begins over anti-PNM ‘racist’ taunts
Naila Ramsaran has been fired from family-owned business, Ramsaran’s Dairy Products, for a controversial Facebook post on Tuesday in which she referred to supporters of the People’s National Movement (PNM) party as ‘loafers’ and ‘cockroaches’ and suggested that contraceptives be placed in the water to stop them from ‘populating’. The …
Read More »‘Unscientific, xenophobic and asinine’! Anil slams Conte’s cheat slurs at Bolt and Jamaica athletes
“[Usain] Bolt was subjected to the exact same stringent testing measures by WADA, IOC and JADO as other international athletes. “It is idiotic, small-minded, myopic and racist to even attempt to suggest that somehow an immigration officer in Jamaica has a greater proclivity and ability to assist an athlete in …
Read More »Dear Editor: ‘Irresponsible’ to hold swim camp during outbreak; Anil: Kids safer there than at home
Ricardo Rampersad: “What kind of leadership and example is it for these experts to allow kids to partake in a gathering with 26 swimmers and at least three experts, bringing the total to 29? “[…] What was even more disturbing is that the president of the Amateur Swimming Association of …
Read More »Faris’ gun-toting kids, Alleyne’s pity party, Cazabon’s living dangerously and return of Two Pull
Okay, who forgot to flush on 7 September 2015? There were collective gasps across Trinidad and Tobago yesterday evening as former Sport Minister Anil Roberts returned to a political platform and was promptly anointed as a Senator-in-waiting by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Not so much a returning prodigal son as …
Read More »Raucous in Rio: Keshie, Keshie, coo; It’s a bronze, Trinidad and Tobago!
Keshie, Keshie, Coo… Congratulations Trinidad and Tobago, you have a bronze! After an eternity in the waiting room, there was finally some good news from the Rio de Janeiro delivery room. And, once more, Dr Keshorn Walcott got the job done. A champion at the London 2012 Olympics, Walcott was third tonight …
Read More »Gov’t owes Akeem Adams’ family $98k; all-star memorial match on Sunday
Friends and well wishers of late Trinidad and Tobago national youth team player and Ferencvaros defender Akeem Adams will hold an inaugural memorial match in his honour from 3.30 pm on Sunday January 4 at the Mahaica Oval in Point Fortin. Dion Sosa, Adams’ former local agent, heads an organising …
Read More »Readers’ choice! Wired868 reveals its top satire for 2014
‘Tis the season for giving and Mr Live Wire is a generous soul. As we prepare to enjoy the holiday season and wish goodbye to 2014, Wired868 revisits the stories that you read and shared the most in this calendar year. Our “Good Morning” section, which takes a satirical slant …
Read More »Tendering gone awry, DJ Loose Lips plus promotion for Johnny-Gun-Lately
Stacy Roopnarine, a UNC MP, does not care much for Minister of Works Suruj Rambachan’s tendering; but, apparently, she can be much tenderer where National Security Minister Gary Griffith is concerned. Griffith, incidentally, is a man of no fixed party although, for now, the part-time hobo is back at home …
Read More »Ato Tea Party Down Under; Ex-Olympic star in sex-less scandal
Sex-mail 101: When you send photographs of yourself in your birthday suit and the recipient does not offer to blow out the candles, chances are you not going to finish that particular race. On 6 March 2010, Australian Senator Nova Peris allegedly sent ex-Trinidad and Tobago Olympic star Ato Boldon …
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