Bertrand Bhikarry's blog

Was at the Petit Trou beach just before Lambeau on a Saturday before Christmas. Found time to play with a discarded lonely little mutt who was still at the puppy stage. You know the period. It's where he still trusts humans, since not enough of us has yet found him despicable enough to pelt rocks at, or to poison. The little sufferer had on the most beautiful nylon collar. The type that never deteriorates, the kind that's certain to choke him to death should he make it past the cute stage.

It's a strange time for me. Over the years I have gotten so accustomed to bashing the government, it's almost what I do now for fulltime for entertainment - in the perverse sense of the word. Now with The Change and all, I do not know what to do with myself.

I cannot beat up this government, not much and certainly not so soon in their term. Maybe I might not even do that when they slip up, as one is wont to allow with a child - One's own child. And make no bones about it, the Partnership is my product. As much as any who voted for them has a right to say.

These are changed times for Tobago, according to the man in the street. The recent boom in construction brought new faces to the island, among them an expatriate oriental community, and a fair amount of 'Trinis' across from the sister isle. There's even been a few new residents from as far away as the Indian continent itself. As it happens, not everyone who comes to stay, looks the same way as those who comprise the key population. To repeat, it's all part of the times in which we live.

I'm not a big believer in things Bible, but I must say I collect them. Among my favourites is a huge old leather-bound one delivered   to me by a good friend. He used read from it to the then bedridden owner - a septuagenarian now sadly passed on.

 It was just a few years ago. In 2007 Environment Tobago (ET) was  mobilising towards active participation with the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) in a vaunted co-management deal for the Kilgywn marsh. It would have been a big deal for everyone.

".. I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,.."