This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on March 30th 2018. Fiction spreads farther and faster than the truth was the headline in the UK Economist magazine reporting on research done by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Social Machines. Apparently social media via the internet works almost as fast as a Trini grapevine […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on March 15th 2018. When it comes to methods of controlling human behaviour, the Gaslight method ranks among the most effective. It works as well on intelligent people as it does on those P.T. Barnum referred to as :”the suckers that are born every minute”. The name comes […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on January 1st 2018. When my granddaughter who is a typical Trini, of many mixed ethnicities, announced that she was leaving Trinidad and moving to New York, I was apprehensive. Trump’s USA is no place for people of colour, I thought, but she was adamant. […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on December 31st 2017. I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America That was written […]
This article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on December 12th 2017 Sir Terry Pratchett, reputedly the foremost satirical writer of the 21st century, knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his contribution to literature, placed many of his hilarious stories in “The Century of the Fruit Bat”. I am not sure when he visited […]
This Article was first published in the Trinidad Express Newspapers on November 16th 2017. On Sunday last two businessmen from Toronto came to T&T to check out the investment scene, and find out whether T&T could accommodate an international IT communications center they wanted to set up. One was a tall dour legal fellow, and […]
I Like Goats I don’t know about you, but I am rather fond of goats. They are independent creatures, intelligent and make up their own minds about things. They can also be very productive. There is a goat farm in Tobago that produces the best goat cheese in the known universe…at least in my known universe. […]
Gregory Rousseau was a trade unionist of long standing before he was appointed to be a Judge of the Industrial Court. He worked for many years in that most difficult of areas, and was highly respected in his field. Recent press reports about his contribution to last week’s ECA seminar on Landmark Court Judgments shows […]
First Published in the Trinidad Express on October 13th 2016 Pension Problem Ahead Do you have your watch on? If you do, take a look at the second hand. Every second, you read this, you are ageing. One day you will be old. Except, of course, if you choose the alternative. Not everyone […]
