Musing
Patrick's Plan
31/05/10 20:27
What if Patrick Manning
wanted to lose the 2010 election? Would his decisions make
more sense then? Read More...
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Absolute political punditry
19/05/10 06:15
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.
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Since the original post, I've added notes on the winners, the missed calls and the margins of the wins.
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One morning at Macueripe...
13/07/09 22:34
I prefer
to do my laps in a pool, but those options have become severely
diminished of late with the collapse of the Flying Fish
facility.
So with the management at home on vacation, we sped off on Friday morning for a quick dip on the only partly complete, but mercifully open for access beach at Macueripe in Chaguaramas.
Swimming along my ocean "lane" a space roughly ten feet wide and running from the middle of the beach to the northern end, I noticed an empty bottle. Recalling a cut I got on my footpad a few days before on a previous visit, I dove to pick it up.
This proved to be a bit like buying a
stylish car and then seeing it everywhere. Just along that fairly
narrow swimming path, I kept seeing more and more of this debris (I
swim with goggles).
So I began to pick it up and take it out of the water. This is the result of less than an hour's worth of work at the beach that morning.
Rubbish in the oceans is becoming a critical matter. Glass bottles only break and leave deadly splinters for swimmers until they are eventually worn down into pretty bits of abraded glass. Tin cans don't disintegrate at all and crushed cans offer jagged edges quickly as they get knocked around on rocks.
Let's take this stuff out of the water when we find it and better yet, don't drop it in the water in the first place.
So with the management at home on vacation, we sped off on Friday morning for a quick dip on the only partly complete, but mercifully open for access beach at Macueripe in Chaguaramas.
Swimming along my ocean "lane" a space roughly ten feet wide and running from the middle of the beach to the northern end, I noticed an empty bottle. Recalling a cut I got on my footpad a few days before on a previous visit, I dove to pick it up.
So I began to pick it up and take it out of the water. This is the result of less than an hour's worth of work at the beach that morning.
Rubbish in the oceans is becoming a critical matter. Glass bottles only break and leave deadly splinters for swimmers until they are eventually worn down into pretty bits of abraded glass. Tin cans don't disintegrate at all and crushed cans offer jagged edges quickly as they get knocked around on rocks.
Let's take this stuff out of the water when we find it and better yet, don't drop it in the water in the first place.
How to be creative
01/06/09 22:10
How do
you nurture creativity? This is what I've learned about the process
over the years. Read More...
David De Caires, fondly remembered
04/11/08 10:18
I wrote
this editorial for Monday's Guardian (October 03).
As I mentioned in a note to David's son, Brendan, his father always recognised me wherever we met with a kindness and generosity that was always touching.
David De Caires was a man of some intensity, but he had no airs and I count myself fortunate to have met him through my friendship with Brendan. Read More...
As I mentioned in a note to David's son, Brendan, his father always recognised me wherever we met with a kindness and generosity that was always touching.
David De Caires was a man of some intensity, but he had no airs and I count myself fortunate to have met him through my friendship with Brendan. Read More...
Notes on TATT's response
04/08/08 23:35
RBTT becomes RBC
15/07/08 11:23
Boissiere house for sale
18/02/08 22:19
We are the Police
08/02/08 22:06
Jason Daly 1973-2008
31/01/08 22:59
I began shooting GayelleTV's presenters partly as a personal project, partly because of my long association with Banyan and Chris laird and Errol Fabien, but mostly because the station is just around the corner from my studio and as I told Chris, it would have been ridiculous for anyone else to be doing their photography.
Having a record of the presence and vitality of Jason wasn't the reason for doing it, but I'm glad that the photos exist.
GayelleTV has created a virtual condolence book for Jason here.
Voting for the CoP
15/11/07 22:06
A Broadway Tale
25/10/07 20:14
Learning is contagious
14/10/07 22:56
Wishing the rains away
05/06/07 08:48
This is Cepep country
28/05/07 19:23
ML PI
28/05/07 18:43
I put
guttering in on my new roof and spend two days tracking down the
guy who stole my phone. Read More...
Chic Heat
04/04/07 07:52
Chic is
remembered as a disco band, but the musicians were responsible for
so much more... Read More...
The name of the blog
10/03/07 07:26
What blogs right?
31/01/07 20:51
This is going well, oh wait,
it should be a column. So what do I put in the blog?
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