On July 27, 1990, the author was a few months into an appointment as the first Picture Editor of the Trinidad Guardian.

In one of the boldest sweeps of their manifesto, the People’s Partnership announced that: “Every child going on to secondary school from the SEA will be provided with a laptop to begin their secondary school education.”

It was running late, this final seminar of the second day of discussions about Carnival two weeks ago at the National Academy for the Performing Arts, in Port-of-Spain.

Depending on how interested you might be in an Egyptian love triangle fantasy, Aida premiered first in 1871 and again in 1998.

For two days last week, the UTT hosted two days worth of seminars and discussion at NAPA on the subject “This Business of Carnival,” with a third morning set aside for the UTT to discuss its programmes.

At Microsoft T&T’s launch of the company’s newest version of its productivity suite, Peter Stokes, introducing Microsoft’s new online services, staked a claim for the company’s long experience in “the cloud,” noting that Windows Update, the desktop operating system’s online system maintenance tool, is a cloud service.

Beyond the loss of his enormous talent, the true tragedy of Errol Jones’ passing is that so few of today’s fans of Trinidad and Tobago theatre have ever seen him work.

Because I’m cussed, it seemed like the best way to test Microsoft’s new web applications was to take the service right out of its comfort zone using Google’s Chrome web browser running under Ubuntu 9. That’s just the kind of guy I am.

Sixteen years ago, Ravindranath Maharaj stood here, the cool dusk breeze on his face, river water gliding over the slippery rocks and in that moment, he found the genesis of a recurring dream.

It’s hard to figure out just what Microsoft is up to with its new Windows Live services.