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A penny for your thoughts.

Year: 2014

  • The Saga of a Mississauga River Community

    What’s the point of voting if what really counts  is money? It’s as though casting a ballot is really giving away a franchise rather than Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity10  …

  • Wanted Dead or Alive

    The archetypal Western movie, “Gunfight at the OK Corral” was based on a 30-second gun battle in the aptly-named town of Tombstone between the Earp Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity1  …

  • Dancing With Code – Juett Carty Combines Her Passions

    Pursing a double major degree in Computer Science and Dance might seem implausible at first glance. However, Juett Carty, the 2014 JNGI Rex Nettleford Scholarship Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity1  …

  • Coffee, Tea or Me Too?

    In my Grandmother’s house, we always had three kinds of “tea”. The choices were green tea, coffee tea and cocoa tea. Sometimes, for a treat, Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity6  …

  • If Technology is the Answer, What is the Question?

    In the early 1990s I was a short-term consultant at the World Bank looking at about eighty projects in different parts of the world to Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity3  …

  • Crimean Vote Spawns Global Deamand to Roll Back the Clock

    The referendum in the Crimea has spawned a wave of demands worldwide among oppressed peoples and ethnic purists wanting to reclaim their roots and return Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity7  …

  • Here Come the Judges!

    Trinidad Carnival 2014 has ended and in listening to how much money the winners of the various contests had scored, I immediately thought about the Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity8  …

  • Masked Balls and Jab-Jabs

    I am in Trinidad. It is hot and dry. The roads are crowded. The murder rate is high. The nights are noisy. It is a Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity4  …

  • Marley, Miller and Bishop

    Sometimes our sense of superiority might be totally misplaced. My second-best example is a story from my youth. Some of my friends worked in Sam’s Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity1  …

  • Midnight Lace and Burning Rubber

    In Trinidad people burn tyres, one went on a hunger strike, others chant in stirring rhythm their frustration and generally a good time is had Continue readingThis content is restricted to site members. If you are an existing user, please log in. New users may register below.Existing Users Log InUsername or EmailPasswordProve your humanity0  …

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