The Artificial Intelligence question
It may well be there are teams of expert public servants quietly locked away at ministry engine rooms, and activists associated with political organisations contemplating issues of technological change...
View ArticleDeath Announcements
Uncle Vin would lay the Trinidad Guardian down on the dining table, open the then broadsheet wide, and turn the pages slowly having read what seemed like every single word. There would be room for...
View ArticleSuck teeth lite
Back in 2015, French schools banned what they called “le tchip”, or “teeth-sucking” in class, considering it to be highly rude, offensive, and disrespectful. At that time, the move drew attention to a...
View ArticleA flag at the CPL
Many of us have been paying close attention to the progress of cricket franchises over the past few weeks in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The contest moves to Guyana today.Friends who know my...
View ArticleTransparency and SDG business
By now, the few of us with an interest in the development game and all its associated intrigues, would have closely monitored the contributions of world leaders (those who cared to turn up) at the UN...
View ArticleJoining the 15%
So, it was my birthday 11 days ago and I became eligible for a “Senior Citizens Pension” - provided I met set poverty criteria expressed as monthly incomes of between $2,500 and $5,500.I however know...
View ArticleWhen you see the rain coming (2019)
Take it from me. There is never a dull moment in these here West Indies. Most of it the wonders of a new people from different places in an old land. Some of it unwashed self-destructive chupidness,...
View ArticlePan as renewable resource
So, Budget Day and recent stormy winds have passed (for now), and the clean-up has presumably begun. To be sure, we’re not yet in the clear; as if we ever can be – small, exogenously vulnerable, and...
View ArticleWhat "digital agenda"?
You can also listen to this here:(Though meant for a Trinidad and Tobago audience via the T&T Guardian of October 11, 2023. It is my experience and knowledge that most of the Caribbean confronts...
View ArticleSounding the alarm
One sunny afternoon, some years ago, I witnessed raw, sadistic cruelty being delivered upon a small boy of 12 or 13 – about the age of my son at the time. I was in my car, parked and waiting for a...
View ArticleEssequibo lessons
Essequibo lessonsWesley GibbingsCurrent global developments are today contributing to an understanding of how our respective Caribbean countries are obliged to navigate international relations like few...
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Our Wounded Nations
The shadows of past traumas hovered low but tamely when Grenada launched one year of 50th independence activities in the runup to February 7 observances next year. It was however instructive that Prime...
View ArticleThe media literacy challenge
Recent national and global events have stressed the need for far more rigorous private and public examination of what is presented to us as “fact” and “truth.”This has always been an expected function...
View ArticleWhen nothing changes
Seven days after going missing, young Tessa returned home on Sunday to the relief of an entire St Joseph community. A “mixed breed” black and brown dog, wearing a pink collar, her situation was the...
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Edward Baugh speaks on Passages
LAUNCH OF WESLEY GIBBINGS’ PASSAGES(The Observer Board Room, 31 May 2019) Prof. Edward Baugh reviews 'Passages'The title of the book is Passages. Since that isn’t the title of a particular poem in...
View ArticleRights as habits of human conduct
At the current rate, there will come a time when the people who require the greatest protection on grounds of the universality of human rights will begin dismissively forging alternative pathways to...
View ArticleMan overboard!
Media colleague and friend, George Leacock, beat me to it in a social media post on Sunday, by quoting GML Tobago Correspondent Elizabeth Gonzales’ report on Friday’s dramatic ocean rescue of a man off...
View ArticleThree little boys on the ocean
* First published in the T&T Guardian on December 2, 2020 and should be followed by a read of this Man Overboard!There are some subjects best left to the poets and dramatists and musicians and...
View ArticleThe advice columnist
Last Sunday, I was reading the newspapers (I get hard copies on weekends because I am old-fashioned and they’re seriously handy with the mosquitoes) in my patio. My cat, Oreo, was fighting me for...
View ArticleI see things
So, most of us have made it to 2024. Happy New Year! Last week I threatened to convert the Caribbean public affairs focus of this column into a space to which you turned for advice on love, jobs, the...
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