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From Islandevents.com PRINT Loose Lips
Rumour Mills Are Turning
Carnival done, but the ole mas is forever in this place…
Hot on the heels of mas on the street and pan in the South, making the rumour mills is a fresh set of controversy at one daily newspaper. Seems this errant journalist started to fray nerves early in the Carnival when, according to town, somewhere between her drinks and her smokes she named the wrong performer for a highly controversial comment which appeared on the early pages of the paper. When the Lady who was misquoted and her songwriter made a trip to the office, the cocky reporter, when confronted, entertainingly asked: “So I must have been drunk or out of my mind?” for which she got two “yes” votes and much laughter. The editor promised to deal with her and had to resort to a printed apology, a retraction and the printing of the lyrics, because the reporter “did not hear what she hear!” As her Carnival drama escalated, this Jane of all types of reporting and Jean of much controversy, lost her Carnival media pass. A first!
Much to her embarrassment, next, I hear the editor had to suspend a photographer close to her, not for her short comings, but for her tall billings as her creativity in accounting practices was exposed. The reporter in this incident went home for good for being too good a disciple of the first principles of fraud.
But while the editor seems to have a grip on things, all is not well. The rumour mills are turning again, and this time I hear that an anonymous letter sent to the board is enough to make one’s mama’s belly boil. A litany of woes, as numerous problems have been highlighted, not the least being the fact that the editor’s highhandedness has left her holding the post of features editor too, since last year!
A Sancoche Of Comess
Well the Soca worrier of last week is headed to his lawyer’s office because her people (the neglected wife) called his people!
After bussing the files on the Soca darling, this week, my friends, who I find like to mind people business a little too much, write me to tell this other story. They saying that, first in the heat of the World Cup there was this big engagement announcement and, well, is we boys so we start to get real happy and as soon as we all began to celebrate, there was a recant...it was a hoax, one claimed! You remember that? Apparently, in the euphoria of World Cup, one of the two people did not remember they were married and though it was a long separation, they had not been legally “freed”. It seems that one or more of the parties involved realised that they had found themselves in a sancoche and could not risk further scandal.
Now they are telling me that after years of foot dragging on the divorce, the papers are finally signed. Ah hear is soca rhythms and serious sampling as the party sings “Bye Bye Miss American Pie”, while holding on to the green card which the marriage brought. And now they are saying on to marriage number two (I think I prefer: “and now on to the second marriage”, lest people think I am being viscious!) and wishing bride-to-be much better luck than bride-has-been. © Copyright 2003 by Islandevents.com PRINT |