Let's say that you have a tenant who is occupying a lot of land and some agricultural land as well. Let us then say that the tenant flies back and forth to New York from Trinidad all the time, and has recently upgraded a house on your land from a wooden structure to a concrete mansion. Let's say that the rent for the house lot is $532 TT per year - roughly $88 US dollars/year. Pretty good, huh? And...

While leeching internet access at a friend's place (jm), I ended up passively watching reruns of Trinidad and Tobago parliamentary debates while checking email. My friend came out, and we discussed the Caroni 1975 shenanigans which I'll write of another time. But we also discussed, quite briefly and poignantly, what a major problem related to the environment of Trinidad and Tobago actually is. It i...

These days, time is a precious commodity and I quite simply don't have as much time to spend dealing with social networking... networks. Facebook is one thing which is an enormous time sink and becomes more so because most people get a new toy and, like most people when using something that dumbs down the Internet enough for them to use, go a bit nuts. It's ok. I understand. I don't necessarily lik...

Unbeknown to anyone other than people in the real world, I'm in the middle of a move to a new place. Actually, I'm at the tail end of the middle of the move - the first night spent in the new digs was uneventful aside from the cramping of my legs at night - up and down stairs all day and no longer being 16 does have an effect, in case you were wondering. Still, the majority of the work is done in t...

Because I'm still waiting to get a bunch of mail due to this year's strike, I ended up in local bookstores looking for something to read. As it happened, I came across Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, which I picked up at Ishmael M. Khan in Gulf City while looking for a stapler that I still need. I'd glimpsed it here and there on the web...