Truth, I-Blog

Professor Liam Teague (Photo  Frederic Dubray)  "I am a Dreamer," he declared.  And he’s got ideas. But, here in Trinidad,   Professor Liam   Teague   does not speak unless spoken to except when he is teaching. You would have to seek knowledge. And it is only then this humble man with an unmatched steelpan performance resume and teaching history would give some insight. Usually stoic and measured, Teague steers clear of controversy. Being in a panyard is not quite a normal experience for him anymore. The greater part of his life is now in the classrooms and the concert halls. But it has become an annual pilgrimage, a humbling one.   And while the internationally recognised steelpan virtuoso is honoured to be among the thousands of musicians and players of instruments he hungers for more people, in Trinidad, to be able to truly appreciate what we have. All year he works with students who sight read music. In the panyard, he adjusts his game to b...

A community leader redefined.... Not until he was proven to be the gift sent from Siparia to Laventille, to bring the lost and wandering band from atop the Hill back to its spiritual moorings, that eyes opened to Carlton Alexander. Brother of Clive Zanda, Carlton, the lesser-known of the two, was on the threshold of three-score and ten when he gave the iconic Desperadoes Steel Orchestra a Panorama victory that pulled them out of a 15-year slump. But it was not just a journey from   South to North Trinidad, via Canada and the USA and more lately   Soweto through his project with the late Hugh Masekela. Carlton@left with Hugh Masekela and Clive. Photo Trinidad Guardian. Clearly, he was divinely prepared to recover the voice that was muted by the hard times (not financially) on which the band had fallen   with the residue of Rudolph Charles’ leadership legacy in the dust. Desperadoes also lost its legendary arrangers, Beverley Griffith and Clive Bradley. When ...

        Little Jack  Warner Sat in the corner, Waiting to be extradited. When he  won a judicial review, He put on his shoe And walked away quite excited. Behind closed doors Jack Warner  is confident that he will not be extradited to the United States. Even though buying time is his first line of defense, in just a few weeks the former FIFA Vice President who is wanted in the USA on 14 counts of  FIFA related racketeering and  corruption charges will know  whether a  loophole in local law will  delay his extradition to face the consequences of flipping the script  on the world power, for his role in turning over the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Jack Warner smiles as Cersi becomes unhinged and FIFA's Game of Thrones' plot intensifies. There is excitement in his legal camp which one year ago claimed Round One when Justice James  Christopher Aboud dismissed an application by the United States to ...

An email witch hunt, ordered by the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs (MYSA) Natasha Barrow has failed to find the person who leaked the information which led to iBlog's expose of the TT$91,910.43 joyride to Tobago by a delegation of 12 persons  led by Minister Darryl Smith. Ironically,  the emails requesting  the witch hunt and outlining the conclusion  have also been leaked. Ms Barrow went into overdrive on Tuesday May 23rd to find the source of the  leaked email "which was featured in an online blog post". It was on Tuesday night that she made a telephone call to Andre Hanief, the Manager of Information Communication Technology asking him to look into the “unauthorized circulation of an email message possibly originating from the Ministry’s Domain.” Haneif, however requested an  independent person to witness the investigation in an email which he sent the  following morning at 8 22 AM.  ...

The email requesting the inclusion of three uninvited guests to the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Sports Awards Ceremony originated from the Personal Secretary in the Office of the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Maria Elena-Phillips. Minister Darryl Smith must say whether he  authorized the email because he has  already deflected responsibility for the twelve member TT$91, 910.43 all inclusive party at the Magdelena Grand (May 19-22) to his Permanent Secretary.