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on Sep 09, 2010
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The satellite pictures tell a plain story of about nine months of rain, it looks like. It’s yellow and red all the way from Martinique to the edge of Brazil; miserable day for anything but I’m hoping at least the thunder and lightning are up around St Kitts or higher when I get on the plane this evening. I know that those Dash-8s are the best planes to fly through storms in, if
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on Sep 08, 2010
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Budget Day in Trinidad & Tobago and you can slice the boredom with a knife. Consider the number of national contractual commitments already made before the new government came into office, which are unalterable without paying almost as much or more in stipulated agreed damages. Add the sharp reduction in income – a substantial-enough shortfall for the ancien regime/modern PNM to
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on Sep 07, 2010
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Caught Dennis “Sprangalang” Hall on the radio yesterday, all that’s left of wit on Radio Power 102’s ‘Power Drive’ afternoon show, now that Anil “Spalk” Roberts has put on his jacket-and-tie to captain the Ministry of Sport full time.
Sprang, who began his media career as the character ‘Draxi’ bringing ‘another dub of cultural sprangalang’ to the early TV magazine show, Gayelle, from which
Posted by: BCPires
on Sep 05, 2010
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Pleasant Sunday morning and several people have already emailed me pointing out my colleague, Raffique Shah, had me to hang, as it were, in his column in the Sunday Express today; nice to be of assistance to a pardner, of course, but, when you read it – click on the link below, if you like, and it may take you there, but, since
Posted by: BCPires
on Sep 02, 2010
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Several people pounced on my arithmetic yesterday, when I calculated that we had, on 1 September, entered the last quarter of the year. It is, of course, the last third of the year. One friend – an investment mogul, no less, who is actually paid by the quarter “several months behind the wife’s spending” –– emailed me
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on Sep 01, 2010
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September already. Wow. Seems like only yesterday it was August.
All jokes aside, wasn’t it this very morning we woke up wondering what the new year, the year ten, would bring? And here we are in the last quarter! And now
Posted by: BCPires
on Aug 31, 2010
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Hurricane Earl bypassed Barbados, thankfully – no doubt because God is a Bajan and heard our prayers – but has left in his wake an airless, hot space; you sweat just sitting down. Hard to think at all within those parameters. But here are the crossword clue solutions I know you’ve lost sleep over, over the weekend.
Chap leaves fruit (7).
Posted by: BCPires
on Aug 28, 2010
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The Thursday Telegraph cryptic crossword maintains its dominance of the week, tossing up two nice clues in
Chap leaves fruit (7); and
Posted by: BCPires
on Aug 25, 2010
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Working from home is a great idea – until school’s out. From day one of the long vacation, it’s been a process of child-appeasement. Every morning, I feel like WWII British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who returned from Munich on 30 September 1938, waving the agreement that secured, “Peace with honour” –until the German invasion of Poland less than a year later.
In my view, the long vacation is for going outside and getting stung by jeps. My kids' vision of ‘summer’ holidays, though, is
Posted by: BCPires
on Aug 24, 2010
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Since yesterday, as only a few people have seemed to realise, the feature I’m have been doing since July for the Monday Guardian in Trinidad, ‘Trini to D’ Bone’, will be appearing in its own dedicated space here at BC Raw. I’m glad to say I can put pix up in the new, purpose-created space. Pictures were a hit-or-miss thing when I was posting the feature in the blog space; sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn’t, like a love affair; or me.
In the next few days, I’ll
