CFR’s first Skype hookup, in which I discuss this afternoon’s explosion in Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city, the hurricane season, the London bombings and more with my friend Janine Mendes-Franco.
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
Consumerwrites.com – consumer rights web site recently launched in Trinidad & Tobago | Flickr group on the Trinidad explosion started by Christopher Yee Mon
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Music played in this podcast:
“New Vision” by Eldon Blackman and The Love Circle from the album Home Grown | “Kite Juda Yo Pale” by RAM from the album Kite Yo Pale
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Hey Georgia,
Early morning in South Africa. Your getting the explosion story up and online helps to make me less depressed! I heard about the explosion in almost realtime because I was on the phone with UWI talking about marking papers for an online course. What follows was about 2 -3 hrs of searching for more information on the Internet ( international, regional and local). By the time I gave up at about 12 midnight SA time, the local sites and mailing lists had very little information and it was not posted on any of the international sites. It will be interesting to see whether computer based electronic media plays a role in the response to this incident. I can only imagine that the radio/TV will be alive and buzzing.
keep the news and views coming!
GMM
Good coverage, world class response. Thanks!
Incidentally if you want to complain about the electricity or water
service you can also check the Regulated Industries Commissions complaint page
Re: newspaper coverage of the explosion ; The Trinidad Guardian updated its website about the explosion around 3pm with a second update at 3:26 pm. The text simply read :
The Trinidad Express updated its website sometime between 4pm and 5pm and included a streaming
video clip from TV6.
DevT
Hello, Dev. Yes, the Guardian updated it’s website but it makes no sense pointing people to the Guardian since they do not maintain archives that can be dependably linked to.
Perhaps M. Tikasingh can use this for leverage.
Hi, Taran, the Trinidad Guardian has improved
their newspaper online archive. The page in question :
http://www.guardian.co.tt/archives/2005-07-11/news_2.html