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BELMONT — Residents of a single block in Belmont have developed what researchers are calling a ‘predictive social surveillance network,’ capable of disseminating news of a neighbour’s life events to surrounding streets within an average of 7 to 11 minutes of the event occurring.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →BERBICE — Requesting ‘just a small cook-up’ at a roadside stall Sunday afternoon, 39-year-old Denise Persaud received a container whose contents subsequently provided lunch for herself, her three children, her mother, her grandmother, her aunt, two neighbours, and a neighbourhood dog that had approached during service.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →EAST LEGON — A 45-minute phone call between two cousins covering greetings, inquiries after family, church gossip, traffic updates, and weather observations concluded Friday evening without either party raising the subject that had prompted the call in the first place.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →ST. LUCY — An incident from the 1987 Kadooment that has been discussed approximately annually at every major family gathering was reopened for fresh analysis Sunday evening, with participants expressing the same opinions they have held consistently for the past 39 years.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →ENUGU — An extended family gathering called on Sunday to discuss a minor property matter expanded over six hours into a comprehensive strategic review, with breakout groups, assigned action items, and a designated minutes-taker.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →MARAVAL — Despite repeatedly stating Sunday that he was ’not studying’ the situation between his cousin and a former co-worker, 36-year-old Anil Boodoo has reportedly assembled a comprehensive mental dossier including timeline, witnesses, and contributing factors, which he has already shared with four separate parties.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →SPANISH TOWN — Refusing to eat, sleep, or respond to his wife, 42-year-old Derrick Powell has spent the last 72 hours monitoring an ongoing argument between two distant relatives about a matter from 2019.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →KILIMANI — Residents of an apartment block have observed that their ground-floor caretaker ‘Mama Jane’ can predict their arrival times, meal deliveries, and visitor patterns with greater accuracy than the residents themselves, whose personal schedules she has silently catalogued over 11 years.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →JOHANNESBURG — Residents of a Northcliff street had assembled, cross-referenced, and distributed a detailed account of an incident approximately 22 minutes before SAPS officers arrived on scene Tuesday evening, with three of the neighbours offering to brief the responding officers.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →Good morning to my readers, and a particular good morning to those of you who are reading this before nine o’clock, which is when civilised people begin their day. The rest of you, who are encountering this column at half past ten with your second cup of coffee and your slippers still on, will receive my consideration but not my approval.
Let us proceed.
THE WATER AGREEMENT IS A PROPER PIECE OF GOVERNANCE
Read More →KITTY — Following a minor overtopping of the seawall during Sunday’s high tide, a resident of Pike Street addressed the situation by locating and positioning a substantial rock near the affected area, an intervention subsequently documented by the Ministry of Public Works as the official response to the incident.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →Good morning, Bridgetown.
Let us address the loan, since the loan is sitting in the room and somebody has to.
THE LOAN. IT IS A LOAN.
The Prime Minister returned from Washington last week having signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank for US$80 million toward modernising the country’s water infrastructure. The Prime Minister has, with characteristic linguistic agility, requested that the public not call it a loan. “I do not call it loans,” she said. “I call it an investment in water to make us resilient.”
Read More →Doux-doux! It is Auntie Cheryl in Chaguanas, the kettle is on, the doubles man just cycled past, and the morning is BEAUTIFUL. Let me tell you, my children, this country is moving forward, FORWARD I tell you, and I have been waiting for a Monday morning like this one for years.
THE PENSION TAX EXEMPTION! FINALLY!
You hear what Madam Prime Minister announced on Friday? She is exempting pension and annuity income from income tax! EXEMPT! After a lifetime of working hard, paying your taxes, raising your children, sending barrel after barrel to relatives abroad — finally somebody in government is saying, you know what, you have done enough. Keep your pension money. It is yours.
Read More →Good morning, Port of Spain.
Let us begin with the only story that matters this morning, although the Prime Minister has been working very hard since Saturday to convince everyone it is not the only story that matters.
THE EVERSLEY MATTER
Municipal Police Corporal Anuska Eversley was murdered inside the San Fernando Municipal Police Station. Inside. The station. Over the course of the same incident, more than sixty firearms and four thousand rounds of ammunition were stolen from the same facility.
Read More →Yo. Yo yo yo. Cousin Leroy here in the Bronx, third-floor walk-up on Burnside, kettle on, NY1 muted in the background, scrolling the Gleaner on my phone before my shift at the warehouse.
Let me tell you, things looking GOOD back home.
THE PRIME MINISTER WAS LITERALLY IN MY BOROUGH
Holness was in New York last week. New York! He was at the Recover Better Conference at the Consulate General, talking to “diaspora investors and developers and financial professionals and community leaders from across the New York metropolitan area.”
Read More →Mawnin’, Kingston.
So Holness flew to New York on Thursday to address a diaspora conference about how Jamaica is “Recovering Better” from Hurricane Melissa, and somewhere between the keynote and the question-and-answer he explained — to a room of Jamaicans living in the United States, where everyone has a bank account because they need one to function — that the reason the ROOFS Programme is moving slowly is because too many Jamaicans back home are unbanked.
Read More →Morning, my people. Ramesh here in Queens, sipping the lukewarm coffee my daughter-in-law makes — God bless her, she means well, but the woman boils water and calls it coffee — and reading the morning news from home with my reading glasses balanced on the wrong part of my nose.
Let me tell you what’s happening.
ELEVEN THOUSAND CONTRACTORS, MY FRIENDS. ELEVEN THOUSAND.
The President was at a Region Three event Sunday — handing over compact garbage trucks to the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, which is the kind of unsexy infrastructure work that nobody on the opposition benches has ever bothered to do — and he announced that more than 11,000 small contractors have applied to be pre-qualified across the country. Almost 1,500 from Region Three alone.
Read More →Good morning, Guyana. The weekend ended quietly the way a tin roof ends quietly — by the time you noticed the noise, it was already over. Coffee in hand. Let’s begin.
THREE CRIME STORIES BEFORE 9 A.M.
Demerara Waves did the work the rest of us didn’t want to do this morning. Before most of us had finished the first cup, the wire was already humming. By 8:23, four residents of Hope Estate, East Coast Demerara, were under arrest for alleged possession of a rifle and ammunition — picked up Sunday night during what the police called “an operation,” which is the official word for “we knew where we were going.” By 8:10, a Golden Grove fisherman was dead. By 8:02, a Venezuelan man was in custody for an illegal firearm and rounds.
Read More →CLARENDON — After informing her nephew that ’no food nuh deh yah,’ Aunt Ivy produced a fully loaded dutch pot of oxtail and butter beans from the back of the stove approximately ten minutes later, once he had left.
The situation continues to develop.
Read More →ACCRA — Notifying the host at 6 p.m. that he would be bringing ‘one small friend’ to a dinner scheduled for eight, 30-year-old Kofi Adu arrived at 8:40 p.m. accompanied by five adults, two of whom the host had never previously encountered.
The situation continues to develop.
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