Crime hits Carnival
When Carnival was launched last month, there was a very small audience at Woodford Square. Many calypso tents are reporting dwindling crowds.
What is the impact of crime on this year’s carnival season? This is the question many people are asking with the pan fraternity still somewhat in shock at the decision by WITCO [...]
Breakthrough soon in Lara heist
An inside job. This appears to be the conclusion of detectives investigating the $1million heist at batting maestro Brian Lara’s mansion. Police have questioned several persons in connection with the theft of cash, jewelry and VIP tickets for the upcoming Beyonce show. Reports are that Lara fell asleep while watching television and a safe containing the [...]
Forget WI glory days says Gibson
From Cricinfo He has been very successful with England as bowling coach. He says the West Indies will have to play as a team and forget about the glory days. Ottis Gibson has admitted that the prospect of guiding the fortunes of West Indies cricket in his new role as WICB head coach was too great a temptation [...]
Calypso Fiesta Saturday
Reigning calypso king Chalkdust
Calypso Fiesta , traditionally, one of the Carnival season’s major shows , will be held at Skinner Park on Saturday with some 35 calypsonians competing for a spot in the Dimanche Gras finals. Father and daughter performers Llewellyn “Shortpants” McIntosh and Heather McIntosh will be in the fray joining oldstagers such as [...]
The fire next time.
Adolph Hitler
Will the volatile oil market trigger a Third World War? Will anti-Jewish sentiment be involved?
Another major global recession can trigger the Third World war with some Western European states and the Arabs taking on the United States and Israel. This is the scenario of a novel written by academic Adrian Gomez who believes [...]
The Greatest Show gets going
The official launch began on the waterfront and there were no fireworks-just a damp squib.
“The Greatest Show On earth” has officially started. A large crowd turned out to an event touted as the “official launch” of Carnival 2010 on January 14 in the spanking new ampitheatre at the “International Waterfront” in [...]
One more for Integrity Commission
Is there a chartered accountant out there without any “cocoa in the sun” who is ready to stand up and be counted? President George Maxwell Richards is desperate for such a person so that he can finalise his new-look Integrity Commission- a task he has been involved in since May when the last Integrity [...]
Phase Two win Panorama semis
Phase Two Pan Groove stole a march on defending champions PCS Silver Stars amassing some 277 points while the Tragarete Road band were awarded 273 points by the judges when the National Panorama Semi-finals ended around 2. a.m. today-17 hours after the competition started at the Queen’s Park Savannah under sunny skies. Phase Two, led [...]
Panday sleeps with the devil
The old maximum leader rules the roost in Parliament. But for how long?
Politics has a morality of its own. So saith the man who was kicked out as leader of the party he founded in 1989-by a significant majority of his admiring supporters- and who is testing this peverse political theory by [...]
Govt. floats $600 million bond
The Government kicked off its borrowing this year by issuing a $600 million bond on Thursday. This bond is to help meet the deficit in recurrent expenditure (estimated at $7.7 billion) and, therefore, one can expect more Government borrowing in fiscal 2010. The bond auction will close on Friday. This bond will mature in 2025 at a [...]