As I watch the story of the POSGH NICU bacterial outbreak unfold, I wonder if we might be on the verge of remembering the power of solidarity.
The main reason why I wouldn’t even bother lining our budgies’ birdcage with any of the three major papers is that—with the exception of a few notable instances—they generally don’t seem interested in producing newsworthy stories.
In honour of our first Carnival since Covidageddon, here are three things you should know about “The Greatest Show on Earth”.
What kind of person looks at a video of terrified children being shushed by their, no doubt, equally terrified teacher as gunshots ring out nearby and calls it “quite misleading”?
I wonder if we’ll ever get around to envisioning an approach to addressing our spiralling crime rate that doesn’t amount to cheering for extrajudicial killers.
The question: Did Lala Anthony appropriate Carnival (and therefore Caribbean) culture with her Halloween costume? The answer: 🙄
Maybe it’s time to see if we can connect the dots between the violence we’re inflicting on our children and the likelihood that those children will grow up to be violent or fall victim to violence.
Trinidad and Tobago is having a tough time right now. The world is slipping into a recession, COVID refuses to acknowledge our collective efforts to pretend it doesn’t exist, and our government is besieged by a combination of microphone malfunctions and an “irritated” population.
The more I listen to certain government ministers and their defenders, the more I realise that a lot of people have never stopped to wonder about their purpose. Naturally, these government ministers are relying on this lack of curiosity to get away with the bare foolishness they say and do. So long as it never crosses our mind to consider why we employ a group of representatives or how they should be representing us, they can do as they please. Which, of course, is precisely what many of them are doing.
Instead of blinged-out TD Jakes and Creflo Dolla telling us that we can get like them if we give them all we’ve got, we have a growing cast of well-fed characters working overtime to convince us that to sacrifice is noble and to starve is divine.