There were some enjoyable electoral cut tails on Monday last. Send me your favourite. Mine is Garvin Nicholas. Tell me too who or what is the new Government’s biggest problem after Jwala Rambarran, sitting like a Reshmi in the Central Bank. Following the 23-18 outcome of the general election in …
Read More »Live Wire rests a belt on Carmona; plus Express discovers time-travel
If only Mrs Carmona could rest a belt on “Lord Pussyfoot.” But, for more reasons than one, we know it isn’t going to happen. The President’s House, meticulous in shipping out pre-action protocol letters and demanding apologies, was less efficient at its bread and butter business yesterday, when it messed …
Read More »We dogs dead! Mr Live Wire on Chinese food and rum shop logic
Question: How to turn a potential problem into a crisis? Answer: Ask Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan for help. And so, after the curious sight of an Asian couple skinning a dog in what may or not have been Trinidad and Tobago, Health Ministry tried to put out the fire …
Read More »Pussyfoot goes HAM: Carmona tries to gag Price
The good news is that President Anthony Carmona has been roused into action. The bad news is that it was not to save Wayne Kublalsingh from likely death, influence constitutional reform or send a cheque for the Trinidad and Tobago national senior women’s team. Mr Live Wire: “The world is …
Read More »President made own way to Argentina; touched by Guerra’s bow
Trinidad and Tobago President Anthony Carmona, despite being the patron of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), did not travel with the Ministry of Tourism’s chartered flight to Buenos Aires. Theron Boodan, the Information Officer for the Office of the President, told Wired868 today that, contrary to reports in …
Read More »A dodgy Mandela tribute, KPB’s wardrobe malfunction… and a missing President!
Trinidad and Tobago President Anthony Carmona never did reveal the powers he has that we think he does not. Perhaps it is the ability to erase memories. It is over 48 hours since Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar left for the funeral of South Africa’s first democratically-elected president and global icon …
Read More »Guerra tactics: Warriors spank Boyz to cap fine 2013
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team made a case for the resumption of corporal punishment last night as two second half strokes from Ataullah Guerra and Kenwyne Jones tamed the rambunctious Jamaican “Reggae Boyz” as the “Soca Warriors” cruised to a comfortable 2-0 friendly international win at the Hasely …
Read More »Sticks and stones please: why Carmona’s address failed
Trinidad and Tobago President Anthony Carmona gave a typically insightful and rousing address to Parliament last Friday, which the equally articulate and astute Clarence Rambharat described as “a well-deserved whipping” in his Trinidad Express column. Here are some highlights from Carmona’s speech: “The elected government of the day is not …
Read More »Revealed: President Carmona’s secret powers
It has been eleven weeks and two days since Wired868 stationed itself outside the President’s House in an effort to capture something truly extraordinary. So, why are we here? No, we did not miss the turn-off to the Emperor’s Valley Zoo; rather we are about to deliver to our readers, …
Read More »President Pussyfoot cock-up
Justice Anthony Carmona, the Trinidad and Tobago President-elect, sang calypso under the sobriquet “Lord Pussyfoot” while he was a UWI student and once advanced to the Calypso Monarch Semi-final. There is no information available about how Lord Pussyfoot fared in Skinner Park but, if it was a rough afternoon, Mr …
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