Tag Archives: Live Wire

This week, Trinidad and Tobago witnessed a breathtaking lack of administrative foresight accompanied by a paralysed executive branch with a side order of absent checks and balances.  The outcome? Pandemonium in one of the most respected offices of the land, with citizens left feeling uncertain and disoriented while media reports …

(Scene: A private room. A mainstream reporter, whose identity has been protected to avoid her being trolled half to death, vents to Mr Live Wire.) Mainstream Reporter: […] So I’ve had it up to here with this narcissistic, thin-skinned, empty-headed, all flash and no substance, fountain of made-up information, skin-teeth …

When long holiday reach, yet ah certain fellah breaking his neck to get to work—dem is people to watch; When yuh killing yuhself for big ‘acting’ title but can’t even ‘act’ like a half-decent human-being most of the time—dem is people to watch; When the same MP who cried political …

Former Denmark international Nicklas Bendtner—mockingly tagged ‘Lord Bendtner’—is his country’s most famous footballer of this millennium, only his celebrity has little to do with anything he ever did on the field of play. Bendtner once declared himself to be the best striker in the world, when, in reality, he was …

The clothing company is eight-months-old, its only existing client is Montserrat, it said it is on the lookout for ‘men’s, women’s, and youth teams that aren’t typically showcased on the international stage’… Stop me when you’re BOL-ed over! Nothing? Well, Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad apparently got that sales …

Let’s call this what it is: a preposterous idea borne from an inflated view of self and a total lack of consideration for the welfare of the general public at large. A farcical miscalculation of what your audience would—or should—willingly swallow. But enough about the appointment of Fitzgerald Hinds as …

Enraged by election results that did not go his way, outgoing United States president Donald Trump incited—indirectly or not—thousands of supporters to storm Capitol Hill yesterday to… Well, the aim of yesterday’s remarkable actions remain a bit hazy. Sort of like a dog furiously chasing a car. Even if the …

How much more proof about the dire consequences of this clandestine malady does Trinidad and Tobago need before it takes this menace seriously? Mr Live Wire joins the medical community in urging citizens to: physically distance, sanitise, and use common sense liberally. Yes, over 75 per cent of victims are …

Whose hand it is boi? The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) allegedly joined a La Horquetta pyramid scheme—coined the ‘Drugs Sou Sou’—in the wee hours of this morning, in a stunning but not altogether unexpected role reversal. On Tuesday, a TTPS exercise led by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith …

The UNC’s star at the 2020 General Election turned out to be Michelle Benjamin, a fresh-faced councillor from Moruga/Tableland who put the sort of licking on Winston ‘Gypsy’ Peters that might see the latter politician in need of a restraining order for once. And the PNM’s not-so-secret weapon? That would …

Trinidadians, Lord Maestro once sang, ent really know what they want. It is a truism that never fails to repeat itself. For instance, Trinbagonians complained for years about the slow response time of lawmen to serious crime. And yuh know when police showed up in Morvant before three men were …

(Scene: A sports bar in Tacarigua. It is nearing closing time. Mr Live Wire sips on his rum and coke and considers the current crisis facing the planet and the havoc it has wreaked on the lives of so many innocent people. He shakes his head sadly as he wonders …