Recent Posts Tagged With 'trinidad'

• is nowhere safe?

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 10:01 in crime, trinidad, theft

  So there we were, sitting in my car outside of her house when we saw this young lady doing a run/job towards us. Initially I thought she was exercising but for the fact that she was not wearing exercise clothes and her face looked panic. As she cam...

• Just like clockwork

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 11:03 in rain, trinidad, predictable

  The time is 12.58 and its raining. This is not a surprise. It rains EVERYDAY after lunch. The mornings are hot if not a little cloudy and by 1 pm its raining cats and dogs. I swear the weather is on a timer in this place....

• The other great flood of 2008

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 08:04 in 2008, trinidad, flood, barataria

  It is no secret that Trinidad is a dry weather country. Even though we have two seasons, the second of which being the WET or RAINY season, no infrastructure was ever put in place to deal with rain. It takes only two minutes of rain for the capital c...

• The scourge that is cancer

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 06:47 in Cancer, health care, trinidad, cervical

  Yesterday was a bit of an eye opener with regard to the disadvantage that poverty brings to a person with special reference to medical treatment, in this case cancer care and treatment in this country.As he tends to do my doctor discusses cases that ...