So… Marina Salandy-Brown leads a discussion on the present and future of the newspaper column, with journalists Asha Javeed, Mark Lyndersay, and Franka Philip. When: Friday 26 April 4.00–5.30 pm Where: Old Fire Station bocaslitfest.com/programme #ngcbocaslitfest

Monday’s @ttnewsday editorial… cstu.io/db5055

"AMID a falling consumption of traditional media, owing to several factors, one local columnist has suggested a special tool to help retain readership/viewership – empathy." - Mark Lyndersay at #bocas2024 on the future of printed newspapers. newsday.co.tt/2024/04/28/boc…

Today's column... technewstt.com/bd1461-how-the…

Bill Anders, the astronaut who shot the world changing Earthrise photo, died in a plane crash yesterday. cstu.io/9b22f6

"Most of these children will not be taught geography or history in first and second form. They enter secondary school existentially lost, then aren’t taught where they came from or where they are." cstu.io/fcf04d

Collectively, Trinidad and Tobago is saying that cash is better than credit cards and debit cards. We are also saying, to an alarming degree, fiyah bun banks. cstu.io/b748ee

Monday's @ttnewsday editorial... cstu.io/77da3c

Why wasn’t property tax collection considered, evaluated and planned before? The question must be legitimately asked of a minister with a declared interest in reducing local cash transactions. cstu.io/eaa9c4

it's always a pleasure to see my executive portrait clients stepping out with the work we've done together. Michael Sealey commissioned me to do the positioning photography for the expansion of his automotive repair and rental business, NuWave.

"Important institutional weaknesses in the public sector [include] low levels of digitalisation in government, archaic systems, undeveloped human capital, opaque policy-making and a lack of data." cstu.io/ca53a8

Burberry burned $36,500,000 of clothes in one year. Not because they couldn't sell them. Because they didn't want YOU to have them. The disturbing truth about luxury's dirtiest secret🧵

"The firewall was giving trouble, it was blocking things, so we took it out." cstu.io/09fbbc

Much deserved my dear friend Michael J. Fox

Our government is where innovative ideas from local tech entrepreneurs go do die. cstu.io/e4e63a

Monday’s @ttnewsday editorial… cstu.io/9ba21d

Is there a digital transformation unit in every government ministry dedicated to identifying opportunities for transformation? cstu.io/24e839

"For the Eastern Caribbean DCash project, we had two versions of the wallets, we had a version for licensed financial institutions for their customers and a version for people off the street who may not have a bank account." - Shiva Bissessar. cstu.io/111b06

When a technology is announced and then languishes for a decade, other things happen technewstt.com/bd1517-why-fnp…

“There is a growing force to digitise government services. The next generation expects responses at lightning speed and governments aren’t always equipped to respond.” technewstt.com/bd1525-jamaica…