January 2011
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Iz a Trini.
No freshwater yankee accent and holding her own going toe to toe with Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is Trinidad and Tobago national Christine Yvette Lewis. She is organizer of Domestic Workers United, a New York-based group which agitated to have the first ever bill of rights for domestic workers passed into State law.
She’s a Trini, as she proudly states at the end of the...
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Thank you, everybody.
Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point referred to people like me as connectors. I’ve been blessed to have been able to interact with such a wide array of people in varied social, cultural, professional, and economic circles. It is a further blessing, through my life, to have made lasting connections in all those spheres and spaces. It is days like today though that make me sit and look...
“When God blesses, pass it on.”
– Me.
“Knowing who you are is essential. You have to know that you’re a...”
– Bob George
“Were there no fools, there would be no wise men.”
– German Proverb
So wait...
Palin and crew are feeling unjustly blamed for the actions of an extremist and political assassin? Really?
A white Nissan Almera PCK 1237 was stolen last night, December January 8th, around 10pm in front of Royal Castle in Curepe with a five-year old girl, Viday Jacob, asleep in the back seat.
Please contact E999, the nearest police station or her father Roger Jacob at 728-4410 if you have any information on either the missing child or the stolen vehicle.
PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON.
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which...”
– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1833-1855),
Danish philosopher, theologian and author
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Doubles with slight.
Has anybody ever realised that in one part of the country, a doubles with slight means a barra with a little bit of zing in the sweet sauce while in another part of the country, a doubles with slight can clear major sinus congestion while removing the roof of your mouth?
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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the...”
– Joseph Campbell US folklorist & expert on mythology (1904 - 1987)
How much would you charge for an hour of your...
Be accurate. Be creative. Be facetious. If you’ve never thought about it, please do. Your responses will feed my thought process and I may even ask to quote you in a piece on which I’m working. Thanks in advance.
Enlightenment while Grumbling over Medford...
Drivers who make a regular commute into or past Chaguanas will have noted the changes in traffic routing at the Medford Flyover. This is the same that connects East and West Chaguanas in the vicinity of Price Plaza.
I was chatting with a colleague yesterday morning about the impact of the changes. Rather, I was agreeing with him on a number of noted negative impacts of the traffic redirection...
Making Resolutions.
It’s easy enough to sit and plot to do something new. Most everyone who engages in the practice of making resolutions plots and plans and lists the things that they’re going to seek to add to their lives. There are myriad pledges to exercise, to read more, and to do more of some thing or other generally.
People usually want more or want to do more or want to be more than they had or...