T&T election – November 5

Damn…you miss reading the paper for one day (Saturday) and you miss it all.
Sorry to be so late on this…Trinidad and Tobago will go to the polls on November 5, after Prime Minister Patrick Manning finally called elections on Friday, at the last sitting of the House of Representatives.
Now T&T politics is always entertaining. What [...]

Meanwhile…is Compton still alive?

Since weekend, rumours have been flying around St. Lucia and its diaspora (of which I am unofficially part…ahem!) that Sir John Compton is dead. If he’s not, he seems to be barely hanging on to life. HTS/CMC reporter Clinton Reynolds last night practically gave the St. Lucian Prime Minister his last rites, saying that members [...]

Class is class…

Clearly Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell personifies this expression. Her come-from-behind victory in the 100 metres at the World Championships proves she is a true champion of the highest calibre, even amongst Caribbean athletes. With her 100 m gold at the Worlds added to her 2004 Olympic 100m gold, 200m silver and 4×100 gold, not to [...]

Hmm…wouldn’t you?

So the press and the opposition in JA are acting all outraged and spluttering that Sista P seems to be delaying the elections after the passage of Hurricane Dean.
Ummm…duh. Wouldn’t you? I mean come on. If Portia does not win this election, she is done for. The woman barely got a year to savour being [...]