Friday Blog Treats

Greetings! The Blog Treats are here! What’s happening in the world and blogosphere (greater than the world!)? Lots of politics, art (mostly arts because that’s my scene), and people talking about themselves (including me talking about myself).

To keep my dear readers informed, I will deliver the 'Treats' twice a week. Some of it good, some of it bad, so I posted just the ones that I liked or thought worthy of your time. Enjoy!




There seems to be a lot of hooligan behavior in the UNC camp these days. They spend more time harassing their own party members instead of doing anything useful.


More adventures in the water shortage! Seems like some citizens were trying to make a buck off of other peoples' needs.


This is an outrage! A patient arrived at the San Fernando Hospital at 3pm complaining of chest pain and vomiting blood, and he is seen by a doctor at 11:30 pm…that’s a full 8 hours! It gets better…the patient says he was among at least 20 people who spent the night in the hallway.


Despite some huffing and puffing and suspicion at who was drawn to go first at the Calypso semis, Sugar Aloes is going first. I'm still stuck on pan, but we'll see what happens at the calypso show-down! Check the Guardian article for some really nasty debates!! The Newsday one has a more sedate line-up.


Overall, I think the Guardian gave the best coverage of Panorama with several heart-felt articles. What a great picture--the ones in the story above are great too. The food was good. The music was great! Even the bathrooms were clean!! Nothing to complain about here!


A couple awesome Creed videos… All of my friends think Creed is lame for some reason, but I don’t give a rat’s a$$ what they think! Oh, and here’s one more so off-topic thing Jumbie and I seem to agree on today…yep! The right not to wallow in your own crap!


I dunno who taught this old man politics but he or she was certainly a terrible teacher. Attacking the same people from whom you want support is not smart politics.


I think I agree with Manning…there’s nothing wrong about bringing foreign labor to fill skill gaps in the domestic workforce. I can see why people get irritated by jobs going to foreigners but the only way to end the need for foreign labor is by developing our own skilled labor, and this takes time! So go take a class or something instead of complaining :D now that's mean!


Well, when something begins, it always runs into trouble. The Panorama show was amazing and as another write said, I'll put my money where my love is--and support the pan.


There goes a $ million to Rowley! I just don’t get it. If I understood the news piece right then it looks like it’s the taxpayers who always end up paying while lawyers and people like Rowley always end up getting paid. The integrity commission caused damage to Rowley…why should we pay for that!?


Sweet sweet pan! Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove, PCS Silver Stars, TCL Skiffle Bunch! So many great performances. Also, send me any links you find to Junior Saldenah radio pan cast...I want to hear more!


Another story about the Pan Trinbago fee. Money keeps things running. $60 is not too bad. These are master panners, with costume fees and everything. Were you at the show? It was amazing! My heart is still racing from all the pan 'love'.


As you can see, the world of TT is filled with beautiful, talented ladies. I gave props to Fia--can't wait to see you on stage, love! Did you see my comment on the bottom? I am still available to be her manager!