Here’s hoping that this country will engage the @Cop30noBrasil process - being hosted this year in Belem, Brazil in November - as vigorously as we (mostly) have in previous years. #TrinidadandTobago #Guyana #Caribbean wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/10/clim...

That "social justice" conundrum never really went away, did it? #Caribbean #TrinidadandTobago #Guyana wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/10/revi...

However urgent, tragic, and compelling, the deepening crisis in #Haiti is unlikely to occupy considerable topline space at the United Nations General Assembly #OAS #Caricom #Jamaica #Bahamas #TrinidadandTobago wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/09/cari...

The "Caricom is a waste of time" argument is a long-established function of unforgiveable ignorance (and a belief) there is more to be gained than lost through disengagement and recalibrated loyalties. #Caricom #Barbados #Belize #Dominica wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/09/inte...

What have this year's #Caribbean #elections been telling us? I have no conclusive statement on this, but we need to think about it. wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/09/rest... #TrinidadandTobago #Jamaica #Guyana #Belize #Suriname

"Yet another school year is being launched ... and close to 1,500 children born here – and another 4,500 or so of other statuses - will be deliberately denied what we boastfully describe as our system of universal primary education" wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-de...

Seems like a clear majority for the incumbent PPPC in #Guyana following yesterday's #Elections

Not sure why there is confusion over the #Caribbean "we" outside of pathetic delusions about being able to delink and set out alone #TrinidadandTobago #Jamaica #Guyana wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/08/wher...

Bourda Market, Guyana

Faced with a ban in the late 1800s, people appeared to be saying: “Nope. No way.” Then through tamboo-bamboo to the percussive powers of discarded metals to what we have now, there birthed and grew the steelpan. Out of defiant protest. wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-...

Pan is among the great hopes of T&T in ways not easily recognisable to the recently introduced, uninitiated, or wholly ignorant. #steelpan #TrinidadandTobago #Caribbean #music wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...

Is state, employer, labour tripartism an illusion? wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

About the State of Emergency: "People without even one cocoa bean in either a rising or setting sun might be few and far between, but we don’t seem to be hearing their voices in the present din." #TrinidadandTobago #Caribbean wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-co...

Jennifer Simons has been elected as the first woman President of #Suriname under a coalition arrangement following May 25 elections

Sometimes you simply need to jump

"Respectfully, though, the region’s support for Haiti does not amount to zero and needs to continue in some fashion, but it has clearly reached its limit." wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/07/hait...

On organised labour’s struggle for continued relevance beyond declining instances in which collective bargaining exists. wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/06/t-la...

"The changing world of work, #digitalisation, and the terms of reference for a (new) social compact are all absent from (unions') routine discourses, except in fits and starts largely arranged by others." #unions #Caribbean #TrinidadandTobago wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/06/t-la...

The fact that so many opinions on the #Caribbean Court of #Justice occupying public space are characterised by an abundance of ignorance. #TrinidadandTobago #Jamaica wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/06/time...

The Clam Shell Dancers

"Our rich bounty of creative value and its potential for wealth creation is too often wilfully ignored. After all, what good is a #STEM without the flowers and the fruit?" #TrinidadandTobago #Caribbean wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

Blanchisseuse Leaning Tree

The post-election shenanigans will eventually subside, and it will be time to get down to urgent business. #TrinidadandTobago #elections #digital #youth wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/05/urge...

De Woman on de Bass

From where and whom does #election money come in #TrinidadandTobago and the #Caribbean? How influential is it? Why is nothing happening to address it? wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/05/elec...

"Every time we have an election ... a period of emotional 'recovery' is required, even by the declared winners." wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/04/our-...

It's Nomination Day and it seems like 4 candidates will face the polls at the May 21 by-#election for the St James North seat in the #Barbados parliament #Caribbean

"The main political actors ... provide the ammunition and triggers that routinely take us to the A&E each time we are required to engage electoral decision-making" #Caribbean #TrinidadandTobago #Elections wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/04/our-...

Some vital statistics for General #Election April 28, 2025 in #TrinidadandTobago. Electorate 2025: 1,154,708. Constituencies: 41. Parties: 17. Candidates: 161. Results 2020: Electorate - 1,134,136. PNM - 22 seats (49.05% - 322,180). UNC - 19 seats (47.14% - 309,654). #Caribbean

"In under one week from now, we shall see where slick and shabby campaigns, and predictable narratives have taken us." #TrinidadandTobago #Elections #Caribbean wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

My Coconut Man piece from 2023

It's #Caribbean #election season. What are the important differences between the contestants? #TrinidadandTobago #Jamaica #Guyana #Suriname wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/04/some...

"Vote for me and I will set you free"

Stick around long enough in the #media business during #election season, and you’ll recognise the substance in the old, biblical saying that there’s “nothing new under the sun.” #TrinidadandTobago wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-...

160 candidates representing 17 parties and 3 independents are seeking to occupy 41 seats after the April 28 elections in #TrinidadandTobago

Steelpan dancers - Panorama 2025

Loads of other things for voters to think about. These include words and behaviours that have served to jeopardise electability. Get past that and this country’s embarrassing digital lag needs to be among the top tier issues for decisive consideration. wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/04/t-di...

The "observer" role is not restricted to elections missions from CARICOM and the Commonwealth. It "extends to domestic spaces in the years between elections. Civil society vigilance is equally important to help guard the guards." wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/03/thos...

The state of emergency in #TrinidadandTobago ends on April 13 - National Security Minister.

Following today' receipt of the results from Friday's #elections in #Curacao, the Governor is expected to begin consultations for formation of a new government. The island employs a system of proportional representation.

Yes, in the #Caribbean we have rightfully bemoaned the weaponised #migration practices of others. But what about our own behaviour? wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/03/our-...

#TrinidadandTobago goes to the polls on April 28. The President on the advice of Prime Minister Stuart Young who was installed only yesterday (Monday) has dissolved parliament effective midnight tonight.

How I started paying attention to #Death Announcements in the #newspaper wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2016/12/evil...

Why do so many #Caribbean public agencies consider the #media to be a needless, irritating, bother? @CARICOMorg @SG_CARICOM wesleygibbings.blogspot.com/2025/03/cari...

Steelpan Dancers