Current West Indies coach Phil Simmons is a lucky man. Replying to Sri Lanka’s 386 all out in the First Test in Galle last month, Kraigg Brathwaite’s West Indies reached a precarious 100 for 6 in their first innings. And then, chasing 348 for victory, they found themselves at a …
Read More »Extended restrictions, no target for returning freedoms; reviewing Dr Rowley’s presser
Trinidad and Tobago will retain its current Covid-19 restrictions until at least 4 July, while Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley intends to have Parliament approve a 90-day extension to the state of emergency, which can see the country remain under curfew until 22 August. They were the two main updates …
Read More »Media Monitor: A comment on communication, commas and a couple of clangers
Friends, Trinis, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come out not to bury our media but to improve them. The Express of Thursday 28 November carried a headline that said, “STOP IT GARY.” It drove me to the edge. I had made a solemn promise to myself that I was …
Read More »Media Monitor: NIF, NoF, Nuff; can Government really bank on OCM?
If you watched the TV6 7pm News on Thursday, then you should have a clear idea of how deep in the doodoo our media are. And since One Caribbean Media (OCM) is one of the five companies on whose entire or partial assets the National Investment Fund is “collateralised”—not my …
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