The Liming House - Latest Comments

Re: Small Limes as of 2011-09-11

soyluv — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:11:52 -0000

hey sinistra--would you be interested in participating & writing a post for a west indian bloggers' blog carnival? shoot me an email at the addy on my about page from my blog for more info--hope to hear from you! we need your voice! :-)

Re: Gay in the islands

Shelley-Ann L Thompson — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:33:03 -0000

hi are you an SDA gay? i would like to meet you. am trying to form a support group for sda gays.

Re: T&T Gov’t finally steps up on the Schengen visa issue

Irina Yunusova — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:34:29 -0000

Good news for Albanian passport holders. If you hold a biometric passport you do not need a visa to enter France after 15 December 2010.

Re: Corporate dreadlocs and other stories

soyluv — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:01:49 -0000

great post about the ever-present politics of hair sinistra. i saw your nice comment at racialicious and came by. thank-you for it. digging your blog. i think i came by here before too from trinidad junction some years ago and read a post about race & your life in london--i really liked that too. i'm brainstorming about something that i'll pitch to you once i know what i'm doing, i'd love for you to be involved, if you can. you'll hear back from me on it soon! take care!

Re: Maybe I am my hair

HairMasters — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:36:57 -0000

Yes lady, you are your hair....don't apologize at all. And if you get tired of your dreadlocks, DO NOT CUT them, just get the Take Down Removal Cream in Trinidad or on-line to maintain and preserve your God given beauty.

Re: Virgin Atlantic and the Travel Foundation dig a deeper hole for themselves, continue to condescend to Caribbean youth

M Saiwn — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:45:12 -0000

I'm not taking sides but the tourism is the key to the region's economy. Or at least it was. I have to agree with you when you say that fish farming is a little too enclosed of an option. It's important but trying developing other areas such as financial services, media, advertising would be in my opinion the answer. It's more compatible with the tourism.

Re: Virgin Atlantic and the Travel Foundation dig a deeper hole for themselves, continue to condescend to Caribbean youth

nsteinhardt — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:51:33 -0000

It's really amazing how 10 yeas ago all you could do for a loved one serving the country was write a letter and light a candle.

Re: Virgin Atlantic and the Travel Foundation dig a deeper hole for themselves, continue to condescend to Caribbean youth

Bryan — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:06:34 -0000

As a corporate strategist in the UK and an ex-employee of Virgin Atlantic cargo - Caribbean, I understand the point the Virgin rep was making. The extent to which it was the best example to use fish and bee conservation is debatable. However, as a consultant I try to understand the business link, and how corporate activities interplay with elements within society and then try to improve upon those areas where the corporation interact with its environment. The logic expressed is feasible and as a West Indian not insulting. Apart from my academic achievements and degrees behind my name, I still aspire to be a farmer, as I see the procedural link to prosperity.
Nevertheless, what I would admonish the Virgin Foundation to do is to make these social initiatives scaleable and sustainable. Scaleable so that individuals involved in Fishing or Bee conservation can hire additional labour - contributing to the multiplier effect in the economy and thereby sustained organic growth. And sustainable, so that a profitable industry can grow out of this area. Being technically savvy has nothing to do with a focus on environmental issues of waste management and food security. I advise all to search the Financial Times for articles on sustainability and water management.

Re: Virgin Atlantic’s patronising ‘help the Caribbean’ campaign

Travel Foundation — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:51:49 -0000

The Travel Foundation and Virgin Atlantic were concerned to read your comments on our work together in the Caribbean. We believe that the projects will bring huge benefits and stimulate entrepreneurship along with addressing pressing environmental issues. Here is further information which should allay any concerns and provide more information.
You are correct in saying that tourism is key to the region's economy. In 2008, travel and tourism provided over 2.1m jobs and 15% of the region's GDP but there is an opportunity to spread the benefits tourism brings further.
There are significant issues with youth unemployment in the Caribbean with as many as 30% of 20-24 year olds out of work.
The projects that we have chosen to develop may seem small, but they are very significant. They link to the globally-important environmental issues of waste management, fish and bee conservation - issues that are vital to food security.
By creating new, small-scale, local business opportunities many of the skills learned can be applied to any business which gives young people independence and choice.
These initiatives will offer choice, new opportunities and new skills for entrepreneurship with the aim that this will create new jobs and opportunities for income generation.
The Travel Foundation and Virgin Atlantic

Re: Can I afford to live in Trinidad?

subbarao — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:30:55 -0000

I lived in Trinidad between 1973 and 1978 as a Ph.D. student at UWI. I lived on Jackson street and paid $120/month for boarding (3 meals and a room) at Mr.Lakhan's house. Later lived on McEnroy st. and Watt st. etc., Doubles were 50 cents each. I revisited in 1990 to so lots of changes. With so much oil revenue, this tiny nation should be prosperous but income distribution and other factors may explain the current situation. I love Trinidad, it is only place on the world where people of all colors and shapes are considered equal. You can read my experiences as short stories I publish on booksie.com/juggernaut.

Take Care

Subba Rao, Ph.D.
Sioux City, IA

Re: “Jamaica may already have passed the point of no return”

KSCA — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:15:27 -0000

No need to be depress because depression will not help. Just pray for our leaders that they will understand they need to place God at the head of their plannings.

Re: “Jamaica may already have passed the point of no return”

KSCA — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:13:28 -0000

Jamaica will bounce back. We are a resilient and fighting nation and so we will overcome this struggle that we are presently facing. Would like to share this proverbs site with you. http://wisejamaican.com

Re: “Jamaica may already have passed the point of no return”

Jamaipanese — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:45:58 -0000

just when i thought i couldn't be depressed any further

Re: Gay in the islands

tiberiu84 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:58:37 -0000

I wonder what the penalty for watching gay porn is there:)) Some countries just ignore medical and psychological studies which prove that being gay is something that happens and the person being gay hasn't got any personal fault. Jamaica just wants to fight against mother nature, but this won't last long.

Re: Gay in the islands

george singh — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:29:40 -0000

i find trinidad and tobago is to backward when coming to gays in there country. america is a place were anyone could get married. i am a man married to a man and i am happy with it so just deal with it and snap out off this stupidness.

Re: Gay in the islands

Trinidad. Adventist. Gay?! — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:26:47 -0000

And that, in a nutshell, is why homophobia in the Caribbean is so difficult to understand, so easy to misconstrue, and so challenging to confront - it is a morass of Victorian prudishness and religious fundamentalism combined with an extreme interpretation of masculinity and imbued with a sense of developing-country nationalism and a post-colonial assertion of sovereignty.
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Something like that yes...

But I do not agree with "hate crimes" laws.

Re: Welcome to Trinidad

Trinidad. Adventist. Gay?! — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:20:09 -0000

Well that was typical. Not much you can do about it though.

Re: The CL Financial Bailout – CMMB press release

H Ethelbert Mc Dowell — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:33:39 -0000

It would be interesting to know whether any owners, directors,managers or large depositors withdrew their money or most of it from CIB in the weeks prior to the government take-over. These "honchos" must have known before any one else, of the banks demise of course, so there must have been a high degree of capital flight - so much for us who are not supposed to panic. What is also interesting (polite word) is that the central bank and government who has been continually assuring us - no problem, tings good - now annouces that CLICO's contribution to our GDP is 25%, Methanol prices have been going down, didn't they know about the signigicance of CLICO when the run on Methanol prices began - no problem. CLICO did nothing wrong in the way that they extended themselves - they say. The manner in which there was interelationship between their companies becomes questionable only now, they broke no laws - because we have none that prevents this sort of business arrangement. We now end up holding the rotten stick. We have no laws to prevent this, WHY? because our elected leaders only in the parliament to argue about what PNM do and what UNC didn't do, who still "tiefin' and who did so in the past, who black and who is indian, who have one kidney and who have two, which laptop to use and what to use it for and who dress up pretty for divali or emancipation, should we buy Toyota, BMW or Benz (ah just get ah minister wuk) - tourism on de up up look four cruise ships in de habour for de conferences buh we payin' fo dat - free meals, endless grog (mornin, noon and night). Trinidad is ah paradise.

Re: T&T Gov’t to bailout CLICO, British American and CLICO Investment Bank

It good fuh yuh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:29:49 -0000

All the time CLICO employees would go around "bad mouthing" other institutions!

Incredible to offer "guaranteed" interest rates at "9%"!!!

Sure! Yeah! Right! You serious? Dat damn good, boy!!!

Ponzi, Pyramid...POOR!!

Bye bye PAN AM!! Bye bye BWIA

Re: T&T Gov’t to bailout CLICO, British American and CLICO Investment Bank

curious — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:07:17 -0000

Are british american investments totally independent of CL financial as the staff say??

Re: This is not the time to not know what you’re talking about

sin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:02:32 -0000

Hi - thanks for getting in touch. I use a plugin called Tagaroo to
automatically insert pictures into posts; it only references
CC-friendly images, and always links back to the source. Per my
reading (and re-reading, post your email) of the various CC licenses,
a link back to the source is the preferred form of attribution.

If you disagree that this is enough (as it seems you do), please let me know what you would prefer and I will amend the post.

Re: This is not the time to not know what you’re talking about

cmogle — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:15:48 -0000

If you're going to use photographs for your blog posts under Creative Commons, it might be nice to reference who took them (other than you taking them effectively).

Re: Guns and Gramaxone

sin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:02:59 -0000

Busby - Gramaxone is a poison that is used (legitimately) as a herbicide and (all-too-often in Trinidad) as a means to commit suicide.

Re: Guns and Gramaxone

BusbyTest — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:40:39 -0000

What is the meaning of Gramaxone?

Re: On the Bank Job and colonial contempt, briefly

smokeothello — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:54:30 -0000

There is a new play called Michael X about to open at the Tabernacle in Ladbroke Grove in London. Written by a great writer called Vanessa Walters and starring Clint Dyer