Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 28, 2010
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The blog today is the full version of the first 'Bago to D Bone, which appeared in Monday's Guardian. This guy is head.
Backhoe Back in Town
My name is Carl Lincoln and I am a backhoe operator.
I born and grow in Tobago. Plymouth. Plymouth was nice but, as times go on, Plymouth change. There are different grade of people, different age of people and the younger people these days, have differences. At least now Plymouth carrying a bad name but, for the years that was there, Plymouth was good.
I born 1950 and I leave Plymouth 15 years ago. I think I did the right thing, of leaving Plymouth! When you look at the world, all about has changed – but Plymouth has changed rapidly. The younger heads call that. They start
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 27, 2010
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THERE WAS PLENTY more cut-ass for the PNM in the local government elections held in Trinidad & Tobago yesterday. If the Parliamentary PNM had become a 12-seater maxi under Mr Manning, the local government PNM under Mr Rowley is down to two wheels, with one cyclist and one person on the cross- and handlebar respectively. How much licks can one party take?
This calls to mind Michael Harris’ excellent column written
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 25, 2010
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DESPITE MY PROFESSED contempt for Twenty-20 cricket, I watch it more often than I’d like to admit – and have seen both Trinidad & Tobago games played in the Caribbean T/20 so far. Of course, the same reason I hate it is the reason I like it: it’s crap – but it can be very, very exciting crap.
Last night, for instance, the Leeward Islands did everything right to win the game, dominating very ordinary TT bowling
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 22, 2010
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YESTERDAY, THREE FRIENDS drove back to our getaway cottage in the same car from the same supermarket, where they’d collectively done the shopping for the weekend. All the way back – a ten-minute drive – they politely refrained
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 20, 2010
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‘IT’ is a far more powerful pair of initials than “BC’, and so I say it with a great deal of trepidation but I say it nevertheless: I just may have triumphed over the Internet connectivity challenges of the last week. At least for the moment. It took some doing and some time: a full day in
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 18, 2010
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The blog takes the form of the third Trini to D Bone feature that appears in today's (Monday) Guardian. This version is half again as long as the paper's; and this guy is worth a few more words. What doesn't come across in print as plainly as in speech is his sincerity.
Big Union Man
My name is Hugh Springer and I am the assistant secretary of a local trade union. They call me, “Comrade Hulk”.
I’m a born, bred Trini and a
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 17, 2010
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The Internet blues persist. I thought I had it hammered yesterday – I mean, today, since I’m posting this, Saturday’s blog, on Friday, because I’m online now and may not be in the morning – I thought I had it done and dusted – but I reckoned without the medieval bureaucracy that surrounds modern technology. For every megabyte of streaming video that comes floating down from Internet Heavens above, there are ten buttons to be pushed on a touchtone phone in call-centre Hell below.
I’ve spent my entire working afternoon
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 15, 2010
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Having a bit of a connectivity challenge again - better than a disconnectivity challenge, as sufferers the world over could tell you - better to have to wait three days for your cable hookup than to have it cut and
Posted by: BCPires
on Jul 13, 2010
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After all the sporting hullabaloo of the last six weeks – the World Cup, mainly, but also Wimbledon and the NBA finals, not to mention Tiger Woods’ perambulations – there’s nothing really big happening sports-wise, it seems, until the Ashes
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on Jul 12, 2010
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Here is the second Trini to D Bone in the series. It's a scream, I think.
TRUE TRINI FLAVOUR
My name is Gregory Wight and I run a flavouring company.
I was born at home in Goodwood Park, the only child of eight to be born in the family home. I’m the number four child; the special one. I have five brothers and two sisters, none as famous as me.
I’m married to Kathryn Stollmeyer, Jeffrey & Sarah’s daughter. My three
