BitDepth 746 posted
31/08/10 11:57 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#746, a look at the importance
of a good lens in photography, is posted here...
Comments
Talking viral video on Gayelle
26/08/10 21:02 Filed in: Media
On viral video, Gayelledotcom, August 23 from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Talking about viral videos and local marketing efforts on Gayelle the channel's morning show.
BitDepth 745 posted
26/08/10 20:42 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#745, a look at strategies for
investing in a DSLR camera, is posted here...
BitDepth 744 posted
16/08/10 21:54 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#744, notes from a stakeholder
consultation run by a Singapore consultancy on Trinidad and
Tobago's ICT future, is posted
here...
Outlish gallery refreshed
09/08/10 21:36 Filed in: Photography
Richard Rawlins and Sean Annandsingh
of Babash are added to the Outlish gallery.
BitDepth 743 posted
09/08/10 20:10 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#743, a look at some of the
leveraging hardware I use these days is posted here...
Great Fete galleries on Flickr
03/08/10 17:01 Filed in: Photography
BitDepth 742 posted
03/08/10 16:59 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#741, a look over my shoulder
at the software I use everyday, is posted here...
The coup attempt, 20 years later
26/07/10 21:53 Filed in: Website
Updates
My story for the Guardian about on the
20th Anniversary of the 1990 coup attempt is posted here...
BitDepth 741 posted
26/07/10 21:51 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 741, a companion piece to a
session I did with young journalists about Reporting on Technology,
is posted here. A vidcast of the
presentation is here.
BitDepth 740 posted
19/07/10 22:16 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#740, a look at the possible
consequences of the Government's plan to issue portable computers
to all graduating SEA students, is posted here...
BitDepth 739 posted
12/07/10 19:59 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 739, a peevish look at the
Content is King discussion panel at the recent Carnival Symposium
"This Business of Carnival" is posted here...
Aida review posted
12/07/10 19:57 Filed in: Website
Updates
My review of Aida produced by Must
Come See Productions at Queen's Hall is posted here...
New images in the Big Folio
12/07/10 19:55 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 738 posted
06/07/10 20:04 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth #738, a look at the recent
Business of Carnival symposium is posted here...
Outlish gallery updated
29/06/10 01:07 Filed in: Website
Updates
New portraits of Synergy soca star
Richard "Chynee" Valentine, AIDS activist David Soomarie and
popular (and anonymous) Carnival blogger Saucy Diva are posted here...
BitDepth 737 posted
29/06/10 01:04 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth #737, a report on Microsoft's
launch of Office 2010 is posted
here...
On Errol Jones
29/06/10 01:03 Filed in: Website
Updates
A remembrance of theatre titan Errol
Jones is posted here...
Local Lives 12 posted
21/06/10 20:01 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 736 posted
21/06/10 19:59 Filed in: Website
Updates
Gallery updates
14/06/10 21:07 Filed in: Website
Updates
New photographs posted in the Outlish Big Folio gallery. Ryan Khan and
Rehana Ali join the portrait hall of burgeoning fame from the new
online magazine Outlish.
BitDepth 735 posted
14/06/10 21:05 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#735, a look at Microsoft's
new free online services is posted
here...
BitDepth 734 posted
07/06/10 21:00 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 734, a look at online storage
services, is posted here...
On Gayelle.com talking politics
02/06/10 20:37 Filed in: Media
Bloggers talk politics on the Gayelle.com show from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Discussing my political
blog posts with host Cedriann Martin and guest Raymond
Ramcharitar.
Both are here:
http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/PM_plan.html and here:
http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/punditry.html
Related...
Patrick's Plan
The Morning Edition after
Absolute Political Punditry
The Virtual Town Hall
Patrick's Plan
31/05/10 20:27 Filed in: Musing
What if Patrick Manning
wanted to lose the 2010 election? Would his decisions make
more sense then? Read More...
BitDepth 733 posted
31/05/10 20:00 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 733
explores some of the thinking that went into my election
prediction of May 19. Read that bit of punditry here... Read
More...
The Morning Edition after...
25/05/10 18:14 Filed in: Media
Morning Edition - Calling the 2010 election from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
A brief telephone interview with the Morning Edition's Andy Johnson about my blog post on May 19 calling the T&T election five full days before the polls opened. View the post here: http://lyndersaydigital.com/brain/dump_files/punditry.html
Related...
Talking politics
Patrick's Plan
The Morning Edition after
Absolute Political Punditry
The Virtual Town Hall
BitDepth 732 posted
24/05/10 18:46 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#732, an open letter to the political
leader winning the election of May 24, 2010 about local technology
priorities, is posted here...
Absolute political punditry
19/05/10 06:15 Filed in: Musing
This was the blog post from the
Wednesday before the Trinidad and Tobago election of 2010 which
beat the prevailing wisdom and predicted the landslide win of the
People's Partnership.
Since the original post, I've added notes on the winners, the missed calls and the margins of the wins.
Read More...
Since the original post, I've added notes on the winners, the missed calls and the margins of the wins.
Read More...
New portrait gallery in Big Folio
17/05/10 20:15 Filed in: Website
Updates
A new oversized collection of
portraits done for the new online magazine Outlish.com, featuring
young adults making their mark in Trinidad and Tobago, is posted here...
Mama dis is Jazz review posted
17/05/10 20:13 Filed in: Website
Updates
A review of the Mother's Day jazz
concert Mama dis is Jazz
is posted here, along with more photographs from the event.
BitDepth 731 posted
17/05/10 20:11 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#731, a look at how
photography and corporate communications work together in a new
media environment, is posted
here...
BitDepth 730 posted
11/05/10 00:36 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#730, a look at the way rival
Trinidad and Tobago political parties are making use of the
Internet and social media is posted
here...
BitDepth 729 posted
03/05/10 22:53 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#729, thoughts about a
schoolboy sex scandal that was facilitated by the Internet, is
posted here...
BitDepth 728 posted
26/04/10 22:02 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 728, a look at the debate
over Flash and the impasse between Apple and Adobe is posted here...
Kenisha and the wireless triggers
19/04/10 21:01 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 727 posted
19/04/10 20:59 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 727, an up-close look at
Apple's new iPad is posted
here...
BitDepth 726 posted
12/04/10 19:01 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 726, a longer view
perspective on the surge in interest in photography, is posted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
BitDepth 725 posted
05/04/10 22:02 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 725, a report from a recent
TATT Open Forum on the impact of television and radio on young
people is posted here...
Gayelle.com interview
05/04/10 21:50 Filed in: Media
Here's my appearance on the first
episode of Gayelle's new morning show, Gayelle.com, talking about
technology, natch.
Mark Lyndersay on Gayelle.com from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
My appearance as the first guest on the first show of Gayelle's new morning show, Gayelle.com which aggregates information from Internet contributors and sources.
BitDepth 724 posted
29/03/10 21:42 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth
724, advice to media students and new practitioners about working
with new media realities is posted
here... Related vidcast,
The Creative Entrepreneur, is posted here...
JAOTG 2010 review posted
28/03/10 22:23 Filed in: Website
Updates
New galleries posted in Stock photography
28/03/10 22:01 Filed in: Website
Updates
T&T Jazz Festival Review
21/03/10 23:59 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 723 posted
21/03/10 23:56 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#723, a report from the frontlines of
Teleios's second CodeJam programming competition, is
posted
here...
BitDepth 722 posted
15/03/10 23:46 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth
722, a reminiscing over the 20 years that Photoshop has been with
us, is posted here...
BitDepth 721 posted
08/03/10 23:01 Filed in: Website
Updates
No Behaviour Show podcast posted
01/03/10 21:49 Filed in: Media
Took
part in a lively discussion on the way the local media is adapting
to the Internet with @maxnavie @SanMan_ish and @dre7413 with lively
contributions from the Twitter and blogging community. The podcast
is available here...
BitDepth 720 posted
01/03/10 21:25 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 719 posted
22/02/10 22:28 Filed in: Website
Updates
No Behaviour at all
22/02/10 22:26 Filed in: Media
I
participated recently in a new podcast put together by three
members of the WITArmy (the West Indian Twitter Army) that you'll
find available for download here...
Local Lives 11 posted
20/02/10 22:51 Filed in: Website
Updates
An
expanded gallery of Local Lives 11, a photoessay about the J'Ouvert
band Chocolate City, is posted here. A
downloadable PDF of the story as it appeared in the Guardian's
Carnival souvenir is available here. Curious about how Local lives gets done?
There's also a vidcast on the the download page.
BitDepth 718 posted
16/02/10 07:53 Filed in: Website
Updates
Kitch in Carnival
16/02/10 07:50 Filed in: Editorials
Originally published as the
Trinidad Guardian's editorial for Carnival Monday, February 15,
2010.
Ten years after his sudden passing, it seems that there is much to lament today in the loss of the prodigious talent of Aldwyn Roberts, who wrote, sang and worked in his chosen profession for more than 60 years after getting his first break at a tamboo bamboo calypso tent in 1937.
In an era in which the successful careers of most performers in the soca arena are measured in months and there is little interest in becoming the kind of well-rounded musician, arranger, promoter and extraordinary composer that Kitchener was, it’s worth remembering the sheer scope of the man’s legacy and the enormity of his contribution to the Carnival landscape.
The man was no kaiso elitist. In the England years, between 1948 and 1963, Roberts worked his behind off, building his reputation and a small calypso empire fuelled by frequent performances, a nightclub and investments in properties even as he sent songs back to Trinidad and Tobago to let his fans know that he still had his sting. ‘Nora Nora Nora’ and ‘Trouble in Arima’ were songs from this period, music strong enough to succeed without the man present to sing them.
On his return to this country in 1963, he immediately staked his claim on the Road March, the anthem of each year’s Carnival celebration and the most forthright expression of a People’s Choice award anywhere in the world.
His combination of topicality, wit, and astonishing arranging skills landed him the award ten times between 1963’s ‘The Road’ and ‘Flag woman’ in 1976.
By then, the musical emphasis of Carnival on the road had changed and the impact of the steelbands for whom his music was so emphatically composed diminished in importance on the streets, replaced by brass bands and music trucks as portable generators finally became small enough to be practical on the road.
He remained, however, the pan arranger’s darling, his music gliding off the shimmering surfaces of hammered steel with a sweetness that has rarely been matched then or since.
Between ‘Mama dis is mas’ in 1964 and ‘The Guitar Pan’ in 1997, steelbands were victorious in the Panorama competitions with his music an astonishing 18 times.
While servicing his existing constituencies, Kitchener the composer proved a restless, ready observer of the music around him. He incorporated jazz credibly in ’12 bar Joan’ created one of the great lavway laments in ‘The Carnival is over,’ and cemented the relevance of soca for disdainful calypsonians with ‘Sugar Bum Bum.’
Roberts was a calypsonian’s calypsonian, and his Calypso Revue was nursery, school and finally home to a surprising number of today’s calypsonians who got their start at the tent and remained loyally with Kitch after they became successful.
In 1964, its first year of existence, four calypsonians from the Revue competed in the Calypso Monarch finals; Kitch, Nap Hepburn, Bomber, and Blakie, with Bomber taking the crown.
In 2000, after his passing, the Dimanche Gras stage was also commanded by a startling percentage of cast members of his tent, including Sugar Aloes, Crazy, Pink Panther and De Fosto, each of whom performed in a red suit and hat styled after Kitchener’s trademark stage uniform.
Lord Kitchener may be lost to us, but his influence and legacy remain. His son, Kernel, has grown into a potent musical force and serves as a composer, musical director and as a remarkable arranger for Machel Montano’s HD family.
He is father’s son, but he is also his own man, adapting his rhythmic talents to the fast moving world of modern soca and creating, among other songs, the JW & Blaze hit Palance, which musically riffs off a bridge formulated in the Brassorama competition to move from one song to another during the competition.
The enormity of Lord Kitchener’s influence on the music of Trinidad and Tobago is still to be fully evaluated. In 1996, an attempt was made at Queen’s Hall as an Honour Performance of the man’s work was mounted by a virtual who’s who of contemporary performers, from the boy group Blak Mayl to the Marionettes Chorale.
The lessons of Kitchener’s life offer rich example for today’s calypso and soca performers. This was a man who was, at every stage of his career, a remarkable mix of entrepreneur and artist, a composer, arranger and singer who accepted everything as an influence and created something unique out of all that he saw and heard.
Aldwyn Roberts was adaptable but firm in his style – there was never a Kitch calypso that sounded like anyone else’s – and he remained vital and relevant throughout six decades of the artform’s development.
His was a daunting example, a mountainous legacy worth climbing in deed.
Ten years after his sudden passing, it seems that there is much to lament today in the loss of the prodigious talent of Aldwyn Roberts, who wrote, sang and worked in his chosen profession for more than 60 years after getting his first break at a tamboo bamboo calypso tent in 1937.
In an era in which the successful careers of most performers in the soca arena are measured in months and there is little interest in becoming the kind of well-rounded musician, arranger, promoter and extraordinary composer that Kitchener was, it’s worth remembering the sheer scope of the man’s legacy and the enormity of his contribution to the Carnival landscape.
The man was no kaiso elitist. In the England years, between 1948 and 1963, Roberts worked his behind off, building his reputation and a small calypso empire fuelled by frequent performances, a nightclub and investments in properties even as he sent songs back to Trinidad and Tobago to let his fans know that he still had his sting. ‘Nora Nora Nora’ and ‘Trouble in Arima’ were songs from this period, music strong enough to succeed without the man present to sing them.
On his return to this country in 1963, he immediately staked his claim on the Road March, the anthem of each year’s Carnival celebration and the most forthright expression of a People’s Choice award anywhere in the world.
His combination of topicality, wit, and astonishing arranging skills landed him the award ten times between 1963’s ‘The Road’ and ‘Flag woman’ in 1976.
By then, the musical emphasis of Carnival on the road had changed and the impact of the steelbands for whom his music was so emphatically composed diminished in importance on the streets, replaced by brass bands and music trucks as portable generators finally became small enough to be practical on the road.
He remained, however, the pan arranger’s darling, his music gliding off the shimmering surfaces of hammered steel with a sweetness that has rarely been matched then or since.
Between ‘Mama dis is mas’ in 1964 and ‘The Guitar Pan’ in 1997, steelbands were victorious in the Panorama competitions with his music an astonishing 18 times.
While servicing his existing constituencies, Kitchener the composer proved a restless, ready observer of the music around him. He incorporated jazz credibly in ’12 bar Joan’ created one of the great lavway laments in ‘The Carnival is over,’ and cemented the relevance of soca for disdainful calypsonians with ‘Sugar Bum Bum.’
Roberts was a calypsonian’s calypsonian, and his Calypso Revue was nursery, school and finally home to a surprising number of today’s calypsonians who got their start at the tent and remained loyally with Kitch after they became successful.
In 1964, its first year of existence, four calypsonians from the Revue competed in the Calypso Monarch finals; Kitch, Nap Hepburn, Bomber, and Blakie, with Bomber taking the crown.
In 2000, after his passing, the Dimanche Gras stage was also commanded by a startling percentage of cast members of his tent, including Sugar Aloes, Crazy, Pink Panther and De Fosto, each of whom performed in a red suit and hat styled after Kitchener’s trademark stage uniform.
Lord Kitchener may be lost to us, but his influence and legacy remain. His son, Kernel, has grown into a potent musical force and serves as a composer, musical director and as a remarkable arranger for Machel Montano’s HD family.
He is father’s son, but he is also his own man, adapting his rhythmic talents to the fast moving world of modern soca and creating, among other songs, the JW & Blaze hit Palance, which musically riffs off a bridge formulated in the Brassorama competition to move from one song to another during the competition.
The enormity of Lord Kitchener’s influence on the music of Trinidad and Tobago is still to be fully evaluated. In 1996, an attempt was made at Queen’s Hall as an Honour Performance of the man’s work was mounted by a virtual who’s who of contemporary performers, from the boy group Blak Mayl to the Marionettes Chorale.
The lessons of Kitchener’s life offer rich example for today’s calypso and soca performers. This was a man who was, at every stage of his career, a remarkable mix of entrepreneur and artist, a composer, arranger and singer who accepted everything as an influence and created something unique out of all that he saw and heard.
Aldwyn Roberts was adaptable but firm in his style – there was never a Kitch calypso that sounded like anyone else’s – and he remained vital and relevant throughout six decades of the artform’s development.
His was a daunting example, a mountainous legacy worth climbing in deed.
Drumquestra review posted
08/02/10 23:07 Filed in: Website
Updates
A
review of Larry McDonald's Drumquestra is posted
here. Written for the
excellent Caribbean Jazz site The
Woodshed.
BitDepth 717 posted
08/02/10 20:42 Filed in: Website
Updates
Mining a lost archive
01/02/10 23:14 Filed in: Website
Updates
The
backstory on 'A Gift of the Past,' in Caribbean Beat's
January-February issue, about a collection of my father's old
negatives and the history of Carnival that they revealed, is
posted
here... The text from
that story is posted
here...
BitDepth 716 posted
01/02/10 23:12 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 715 posted
25/01/10 22:59 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 715 is the story of
how soca star Mr Vybe
leverages social media to advance his career and connect with his
fans.
BitDepth 714 posted
18/01/10 23:42 Filed in: Website
Updates
The Local Lives process
18/01/10 23:32 Filed in: Website
Updates
That Mairoon Ali photo
11/01/10 23:52 Filed in: Photography
On the HaHaHa productions portrait from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Host Andy Johnson and guests (and subjects) Penelope Spencer and Nikki Crosby chat on the TV6 Morning Edtion show about the portrait I did of the group to launch my work on Womanwise for the Sunday Guardian.
BitDepth 713 posted
11/01/10 23:38 Filed in: Website
Updates
CNMG talk on technology
04/01/10 22:16 Filed in: Media
First Up technology discussion from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Derren Joseph for asking me to participate!
Photographing Debbie Ali
04/01/10 22:10 Filed in: Website
Updates
Photographing a
kidnapping victim on the very first day of the year proves to
be the kind of challenge that makes photojournalism really
interesting.
BitDepth 712 posted
04/01/10 22:08 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 711 posted
28/12/09 22:36 Filed in: Website
Updates
Giselle, finally
22/12/09 00:05 Filed in: Website
Updates
In the 23 years since Giselle La
Ronde-West won the Miss World title, I have never once photographed
her. Womanwise gives me my first
shot at an ageless beauty.
BitDepth 710 posted
22/12/09 00:03 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth #710, a look at Facebook's
new privacy changes is posted here...
Diamond cover
14/12/09 22:04 Filed in: Website
Updates
Lystra, decades later
07/12/09 22:48 Filed in: Website
Updates
Photographer's notes on a session with
veteran model Lystra Cudjoe are posted here...
BitDepth 709 posted
07/12/09 22:44 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#709, a look at a heated
Facebook debate on copyright is posted here...
Career contemplation videocast
07/12/09 22:43 Filed in: Website
Updates
A videocast of a presentation covering
my career to date prepared for St Joseph's Convent students and the
bpTT photography club is posted here...
2012 review
01/12/09 00:54 Filed in: Website
Updates
My review of the film 2012 for the
Trinidad Guardian is posted
here...
Womanwise Virtual Gallery
01/12/09 00:38 Filed in: Website
Updates
Interested in the photos I've been
doing for Womanwise? There's now a virtual gallery of the work
available here. It's made for big screens, I'm afraid.
Shoot Mystie for me, said the editor
01/12/09 00:30 Filed in: Website
Updates
The wonderful world of Mystie.
Behind the Womanwise shoot.
BitDepth 708 posted
01/12/09 00:27 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 708, a reconsideration of
some media bashing in the technology sector, is posted here...
Yes, I get to shoot Wilhelmina models
23/11/09 23:07 Filed in: Website
Updates
Photo session number 13 turns out to
be an encounter with a former Wilhelmina model. I laugh at your
reputation for bad luck! Hahahahaha! Oh, and the photographer's notes are here...
BitDepth 707 posted
23/11/09 23:05 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#707, a look at Blackberry's
new 8520 and the Blackberry App World online store for software is
posted here...
Destra in da house
16/11/09 22:42 Filed in: Website
Updates
Planning for a pregnant Destra takes
some forethought and some strategy. Here's how I tackled the challenge.
BitDepth 706 posted
16/11/09 22:40 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth
# 706, a report on a discussion about the value of intellectual
capital is posted
here...
DEW appreciation speech
14/11/09 01:48 Filed in: Media
My
appreciation speech, given on behalf of the late artist Dunstan E
Williams on the occasion of his Media Excellence award from the
TTPBA is posted here...
MATT statement on proposed Bagoo ban
14/11/09 01:31 Filed in: Media
The Media Association of Trinidad
and Tobago posted this statement to their Facebook page. As a
courtesy, I am reposting it here for general
access.
It was with shock and dismay that the media association learned of the recommendations of the Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives with regard to Mr Andre Bagoo of the Newsday newspaper.
On finding Mr Bagoo guilty of an offence, the committee recommended not only that the newspaper publish an apology, but also that Mr Bagoo be banned from the media gallery of Parliament until the end of the session.
Matt considers this an unjustifiably harsh and highly unusual punishment.
Mr Bagoo had been accused by Information Minister Neil Parsanlal of committing a contempt of Parliament by publishing the proceedings of the Privileges Committee in another matter before those proceedings had been reported to the House.
The association admits that this publication by Newsday was indeed in breach of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
However, in previous cases involving breaches of privilege--including the case prematurely reported by Mr Bagoo, which involved Udecott--once the accused party apologises for the offence, he or she is almost invariably let off and no further action taken. It should be noted that the editor in chief of Newsday, Ms Therese Mills, appeared before the committee and apologised for breaching the Standing Orders.
In addition, in a minority report, three members of the committee disagreed with the recommendations and argued that banning a reporter contravened the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press. They asked that members of the House reject either the entire report or that recommendation.
Matt endorses this call, and now awaits with apprehension the committee’s findings in the case of two other journalists also sent to the Privileges Committee.
In light of the recommendations in the case of Mr Bagoo, Matt notes with grave concern that a pattern may be emerging of attempted intimidation, by way of the Privileges Committee, of journalists whose reporting may have embarrassed or offended the Government.
It was with shock and dismay that the media association learned of the recommendations of the Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives with regard to Mr Andre Bagoo of the Newsday newspaper.
On finding Mr Bagoo guilty of an offence, the committee recommended not only that the newspaper publish an apology, but also that Mr Bagoo be banned from the media gallery of Parliament until the end of the session.
Matt considers this an unjustifiably harsh and highly unusual punishment.
Mr Bagoo had been accused by Information Minister Neil Parsanlal of committing a contempt of Parliament by publishing the proceedings of the Privileges Committee in another matter before those proceedings had been reported to the House.
The association admits that this publication by Newsday was indeed in breach of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
However, in previous cases involving breaches of privilege--including the case prematurely reported by Mr Bagoo, which involved Udecott--once the accused party apologises for the offence, he or she is almost invariably let off and no further action taken. It should be noted that the editor in chief of Newsday, Ms Therese Mills, appeared before the committee and apologised for breaching the Standing Orders.
In addition, in a minority report, three members of the committee disagreed with the recommendations and argued that banning a reporter contravened the constitutionally enshrined freedom of the press. They asked that members of the House reject either the entire report or that recommendation.
Matt endorses this call, and now awaits with apprehension the committee’s findings in the case of two other journalists also sent to the Privileges Committee.
In light of the recommendations in the case of Mr Bagoo, Matt notes with grave concern that a pattern may be emerging of attempted intimidation, by way of the Privileges Committee, of journalists whose reporting may have embarrassed or offended the Government.
Windows 7 launch
09/11/09 23:57 Filed in: Technology
My exclusive story for the Business
Guardian on the launch of Windows 7 is posted here...
10 ways to improve your photography
09/11/09 23:21 Filed in: Website
Updates
Womanwise gone wrong
09/11/09 23:19 Filed in: Website
Updates
Photographer's notes on a tragedy of
errors that scuttled a strong effort at delivering a good Womanwise
cover in challenging circumstances are posted here...
BitDepth 705 posted
09/11/09 23:17 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth 705, a report on a talk given
by Dr David Pensak at a TTCSI session as part of Services Week is
posted here...
Photographing Carolyn Pasea
02/11/09 23:15 Filed in: Website
Updates
Photography notes on my session with
music producer and talent manager Carolyn Pasea for the Sunday
Guardian's Womanwise magazine are posted here...
BitDepth 704 posted
02/11/09 22:51 Filed in: Website
Updates
The Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Surveyors has posted a note about my talk here...
Presenter notes for these talks are available here...
BitDepth 703 posted
26/10/09 23:40 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#703, a reminiscing and
obituary of sorts for Astra Da Costa is posted here...
Sitewide search now available
23/10/09 00:55 Filed in: Website
Updates
Finally implemented sitewide search
tools on the pages with text, though it will search the whole site
using Google's engine. Try it and let me know if it works for
you.
Tidied some of the commess I have going on in the two sidebars on this page, so hopefully it will load without timing out on those IE browsers behind corporate firewalls. I'd appreciate some feedback on that too.
Tidied some of the commess I have going on in the two sidebars on this page, so hopefully it will load without timing out on those IE browsers behind corporate firewalls. I'd appreciate some feedback on that too.
BitDepth 702 posted
19/10/09 22:08 Filed in: Website
Updates
BitDepth#702, a look at the increasing
sophistication of popular web memes is posted here...
Under your skin review posted
19/10/09 21:52 Filed in: Website
Updates
Local Lives 10, The Children's Ramayana posted
17/10/09 22:54 Filed in: Website
Updates
My photo essay on the Bal Ramdilla, a
learning experience at the Hindu Prachar Kendra that involves
children in the writing, directing and performance of the epic
Ramleela is archived online here as a downloadable
PDF.
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
TDC Divali Competition
15/10/09 11:58 Filed in: Website
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The Tourism Development Company
launched its Divali photography competition for amateurs. I took
issue with one of the terms. Five hours later, the company
graciously amended a critical parameter of the competition.
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...
Notes on Allison Demas photos
12/10/09 22:28 Filed in: Website
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Photographer's notes on a cover shoot
with Allison Demas and her daughter Aisha for Womanwise are posted here...
BitDepth 701 posted
12/10/09 22:24 Filed in: Website
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BitDepth 701, some wild but hopefully
informed speculation on the way a local newspaper in development
might find its place in the local media landscape, is posted
here...
UTC updates online service
05/10/09 22:09 Filed in: Website
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My exclusive Business Guardian story
on UTC's planned updates to its online service is posted here...
BitDepth 700 posted
05/10/09 22:07 Filed in: Website
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BitDepth#700, a look at Microsoft's newest
operating system update, Windows 7, is posted here...
Wendy Fitzwilliam - photo notes
28/09/09 22:36 Filed in: Website
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Photography notes on my photo session with Wendy
Fitzwilliam and her son at her home are posted
here...