Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from November, 2006
Trinidad & Tobago: Corporate Social Responsibility
Karel McIntosh provides an overview of corporate social responsibility in the Trinidad and Tobago context. And Francomenz asserts that “It’s sad that we may have to actually legislate magnanimity in order for businesses to understand the weight of their corporate responsibility, but in a climate where industry makes no apologies...
Trinidad & Tobago: Cutlass as metaphor
For Taran Rampersad, knowledge of the existence of a “brushing cutlass” — or a lack thereof — provides a useful metaphor for the digital divide.
Trinidad & Tobago: The responsible executive
“‘Corporate’ and ‘responsibility’ involve a contradiction in terms, of course, but I guess there's no harm in trying to imagine what a progressive corporate boss might do (as opposed to say), should such a creature exist,” writes Trinidad blogger Jeremy Taylor in the preamble to “The Responsible Executive's Manifesto”.
Trinidad & Tobago: Cricket, breathalysers and crime
The Manicou offers his two cents on the West Indies cricket team's defeat in the ICC Champions Trophy, Trinidad and Tobago's proposed breathalyser law and observes that “murder in Trinidad has no modus operandi.” And crime comes a bit too close to home for Karen Walrond as well.
Trinidad & Tobago: Decoding PM-speak
Jeremy Taylor reads between the lines of recent statements made by Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister.
Trinidad & Tobago: A geographically isolated communicator
Trinidadian blogger Karel McIntosh is interviewed by the Forward podcast about her experience as a public relations professional in the Caribbean and as a “geographically isolated communicator”.
Trinidad & Tobago: DNA testing
Trinidad and Tobago's police comply promptly with a request from their London counterparts for a DNA sample. Why, wonders the Modest Goddess, didn't they act with the same promptness in connection with DNA testing for a now infamous local case involving the murder of a minor?
Trinidad & Tobago: Halloween Central
Caribbean Free Radio writes about the experience of Halloween in what is very likely the first neighbourhood in Trinidad to adopt the tradition.
Trinidad & Tobago: Child abuse
The Manicou expresses outrage and disbelief at the circumstances surrounding the latest murder of a minor in Trinidad.