Kamla Persad-Bissessar

It's all over Facebook right now about the 'Limited State of Emergency' that the Prime Minister announced this evening. What is peculiar is that in the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, there is no mention of 'Limited' - and the reasons for a State of Emergency are supposed to be:

8. (1) Subject to this section, for the purposes of this Chapter, the President may from time to time make a Proclamation declaring that a state of public emergency exists.

Old news: BW523 crash landed. There's plenty of photos, video and more all over the web and, due to copyright concerns, I won't post any here. Unlike the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister and her response team, I didn't immediately drop everything to go to Guyana and look at the plane.

Everyone likes award shows and rankings so what I've done (in true Trinbagonian mimicry) is to borrow and bastardize a phrase from FOX's flagship commentator Bill O'Reilly's book (Pinheads and Patriots) together with our very own Kevin Baldeosingh's satirical character (Peter Permhead) to come up with my very own top five list

Some folks, including politicians, have been suggesting that the public should focus on why the SIA's alleged covert spying revelations were made last week, that no one should fuss because such electronic spying is an important tool in modern crime-fighting arsenals across the world and that the government has severely harmed our security agencies' ability to protect us.  With respect, that makes no sense.

They say a week is a long time in politics.  A week ago, I thought the main news item that would've occupied the front-burner would've been the Guardian's reporting of a top government official being fingered in an alleged conspiracy to wilfully pervert the course of public justice in relation to charges against two former People’s National Movement ministers.  Or the criticisms of Hon.

On Friday 12th Nov 2010, the Hon.

Just a quick pointer - while the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has put out the specifications for laptops that 'public' tender has started on (see the specs here), there were remarks made about a laptop in the local media (Newsday, perhaps? ) that did not do much to answer questions regarding a cheap laptop that India was making.

It has been unveiled, complete with video:

First, we had the dousing of a PNM candidate with red paint and the threat on Kamla Persad-Bissessar's life.

Via a post to my Facebook page 2 hours ago (I was afk):

People's Partnership Leader, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar was quoted, in reference to the UK's newly-formed coalition government: '... no-one is saying that the [Lib-Con] coalition is a threat to Britain. In fact what they are saying is that it is a tribute to the strength of the system of parliamentary democracy.'