Essequibo lessons
Essequibo lessonsWesley GibbingsCurrent global developments are today contributing to an understanding of how our respective Caribbean countries are obliged to navigate international relations like few...
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Our Wounded Nations
The shadows of past traumas hovered low but tamely when Grenada launched one year of 50th independence activities in the runup to February 7 observances next year. It was however instructive that Prime...
View ArticleThe media literacy challenge
Recent national and global events have stressed the need for far more rigorous private and public examination of what is presented to us as “fact” and “truth.”This has always been an expected function...
View ArticleWhen nothing changes
Seven days after going missing, young Tessa returned home on Sunday to the relief of an entire St Joseph community. A “mixed breed” black and brown dog, wearing a pink collar, her situation was the...
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Edward Baugh speaks on Passages
LAUNCH OF WESLEY GIBBINGS’ PASSAGES(The Observer Board Room, 31 May 2019) Prof. Edward Baugh reviews 'Passages'The title of the book is Passages. Since that isn’t the title of a particular poem in...
View ArticleRights as habits of human conduct
At the current rate, there will come a time when the people who require the greatest protection on the grounds of the universality of human rights will begin dismissively forging alternative pathways...
View ArticleMan overboard!
Media colleague and friend, George Leacock, beat me to it in a social media post on Sunday, by quoting GML Tobago Correspondent Elizabeth Gonzales’ report on Friday’s dramatic ocean rescue of a man off...
View ArticleThree little boys on the ocean
* First published in the T&T Guardian on December 2, 2020 and should be followed by a read of this Man Overboard!There are some subjects best left to the poets and dramatists and musicians and...
View ArticleThe advice columnist
Last Sunday, I was reading the newspapers (I get hard copies on weekends because I am old-fashioned and they’re seriously handy with the mosquitoes) in my patio. My cat, Oreo, was fighting me for...
View ArticleI see things
So, most of us have made it to 2024. Happy New Year! Last week I threatened to convert the Caribbean public affairs focus of this column into a space to which you turned for advice on love, jobs, the...
View ArticleOMG Pan!
Everyone who understands the value of pan to T&T would know how much of a hard sell can be the idea of its unmatched role as a musical instrument, as a model for social organisation, and as a...
View ArticleReform Infatuations
Like so many other laymen with an interest in this sort of thing (and some experience with navigating it in associated fields), I have been paying close attention to recent, revived interest in the...
View ArticleA Developmental Bottleneck
For me, what is remarkable about UNECLAC’s study on the impact of chronic road traffic congestion in T&T has been the virtual absence of sustained public outrage at the economic loss and...
View ArticleCarnival defiance
Last weekend provided a good opportunity to sample, in small and large bits, the contradictions of a country said to be under siege from violent crime and social conflict, and the offerings of people...
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De Carnival is Over
Listen to this here:Eeef you know how allyou does get me vex this time of the year. Results does come een and like it had mad pills in your beer. The people and dem practise hard, hard for months, but...
View ArticleArt and Our Packed Agenda
There are so many things on the current agenda, both pleasant and deeply tragic, that a public affairs newspaper column provided limited space will always fall far short of comprehensive or adequate...
View ArticleDisastrous Communication Gaps
Just back from a few days in Jamaica with Caribbean media colleagues, disaster response agencies, and associated institutions discussing relationships to be forged and/or strengthened as our region...
View ArticleArt’s revolutionary ways
Emotional haze of Saharan proportions typically hovers over and permeates the season just ended - conditions under which it is best to be patient about many things. For example, few there may have been...
View ArticleCaricom’s Haiti Moment
Despite Ariel Henry’s resignation offer - and it is provisional upon several important pre-requisites - Caricom deliberations and action on Haiti have still fallen short of an ultimate solution, but so...
View ArticleArt's higher purpose - our several conversations
A glaucoma-themed art exhibition last week could have found few better locations than an eye clinic for a launch. Though distracted and distressed by that fact that we were just one block away from...
View ArticleI-Spy and Espionage
Just when you thought your cover was intact and nobody would recognise you as secret agent WG1007, up comes your so-called bredrin, RS07, out in the open! This had to have been a public confession...
View ArticleUnfinished CCJ business
The month of April has arrived and met us all the poorer in the absence of several key people who had helped prescribe an alternative developmental pathway for us in T&T and the Caribbean...
View ArticleChildren Beyond the Legal Boundaries
There is more than one reason to feel uncomfortable and emotionally queasy about some matters discussed at last Friday’s hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights, Equality and Diversity...
View ArticleGetting away with murder
April 17, 2024 - Even as we collectively lament a news agenda over-laden with accounts of indescribably horrific acts of murderous violence has come information that glimmers of comforting hope at...
View ArticleElections and the media connection
Though the political anniversaries that signal the onset of more intense electoral activity in the Caribbean aren’t fully due until next year, the hustings appear never to have faded into the...
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