Is President Anthony Carmona’s mother-in-law, Savitri Seetaram-Singh, employed by the Office of the President? Has she travelled abroad with the President’s family? And, if so, who paid for her airfare and accommodation? These are some of the questions put to President’s House, through the Freedom of Information Act, by civic …
Read More »The high price of our silence: Nakhid explains why corruption survives in T&T
Former national footballer and would-be FIFA president David Nakhid reflects on the current state of the political ballgame: “Why do you have to speak for these African players?” Patrick Edwards, a career diplomat attached to the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London, asked me when he came to Lebanon …
Read More »Sailing on the Awesome Conjob; the Naipaul-Coolman case and soca on the seas
The digital and social media now regularly facilitates the uncovering of many matters that in earlier times might have slipped through the darkness of political obfuscation, including taking blatantly inconsistent positions on the same issue. One example of a significant revelation is the massive wrongdoing that has occurred in the …
Read More »… And the media keep right on media-ing: How to bring the WICB to heel
Columnist Earl Best calls on the regional media to sign a hands-off, ‘non-corporation’ pact to bring WICB president Dave Cameron and company to heel: What know they of cricket, CLR James asked almost five and a half decades ago, who only cricket know? What know they of West Indies cricket, …
Read More »Fack Fucebook: PP voyeurs defile social media
Remember when Facebook was about puppies with guilty faces, funny clips of adventurous babies and vacation photos? Hold that thought for a bit. Hold it. Now exhale. You have a better chance of fitting into your Form One school uniform than seeing that place again. Now Facebook has become a …
Read More »Fillip for race-baiting: T&T survives Fay-Ann and Rachel spat
The sun rose and set today on all of Trinidad and Tobago and there were no obvious signs of the implosion of one race of people as a result of a Twitter spat between local entertainers Fay-Ann Lyons and Rachel Price. Somewhere in Diego Martin, one suspects a part-time blogger …
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