Tag Archives: People’s Partnership

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 …

Fixin’ T&T asks the T&T Chamber, AMCHAM, TTMA and DOMA to support the local police via an open letter: Dear Sir/Madam, FIXIN’ T&T both sympathises and empathises with members of the public who were inconvenienced yesterday; the lessons not taught to and exams not written by our nation’s children, the …

“My Cabinet colleagues are really a good bunch of people based on what I have seen,” Sport Minister Brent Sancho told Wired868. “Every discussion that they have in Parliament and outside of Parliament is for the better of Trinidad and Tobago. The Prime Minister in particular has really impressed me… …

As oil prices continue to fall and stupidity keeps rising, Trinidad and Tobago citizens capable of rational thought and non-partisan ideas are under siege and increasingly desperate to earn a living. Faced with the possibility of having to disconnect SportsMax, Mr Live Wire secretly filled out a form at a …

“I know qualification always seems to be a topic but I don’t get what qualification you’re supposed to have to be a Sport Minister,” Sport Minister Brent Sancho told Wired868. “Are you supposed to go to university and study to be a Sport Minister? “I think experience is the greatest …

Last week, a 62-year-old woman decided to go to an all-inclusive party after work. That grandmother also turned out to be the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Cue pandemonium on Faceboook. According to who you listened to, Kamla Persad-Bissessar should have been: at work trying to raise the price …

First, the good news: Kamla Persad-Bissessar has stepped down as Minister of the People—a possible concession that she has no idea what the people of Trinidad and Tobago want anymore. And the bad news? She is still Prime Minister. Something like cricketer Daren Ganga in his latter days when he …

Former Sport Minister Anil Roberts made a surprise return to the public eye today at the memorial service for beloved television host Marcia Henville. No doubt it was not the funeral Roberts had hoped to attend. Roberts was accompanied by his beautiful young wife and, by all accounts, they were …

Scene: Office of the Prime Minister. Mr Live Wire waits patiently for the arrival of the Prime Minister and an exclusive interview. The Prime Minister walks in and greets him enthusiastically. PM: Good day. So you are the Vanity Fair reporter eh? Very nice to meet you. How has your …

Wired868 abandons satire in this series to go straight for the forehead: Call me Ishmael. The name my mother gave me not too good at the moment; so is best to use this one to get a Government cheque. I work CEPEP, or 10-days as allyuh like to call it. …

At the height of the Chaguanas West by-election last year, I wrote an article titled “Sinking in the mud” which highlighted the low level of campaigning and the depths to which some candidates sank in order to win votes. I wrote at the time “the rhetoric from the various campaigns …