Podcasts about Trinidad

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 123-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 21,126 on turnover of 5-billion N-T. The market moved sharply lower on Monday - losing more than 340 points - amid ongoing investor concerns over the United States' tariff policies after President Donald Trump accused China of violating a preliminary trade deal with Washington. Sports agency warns CTTTA for revoking athlete's WTT US Smash slot The Sports Administration has issued a formal warning to the Chinese Taipei Table Tennis Association and announced the suspension of subsidies unrelated to training and competitions. The move comes after the association revoked (撤銷) Yeh Yi-tian's place at the World Table Tennis U-S Smash tournament scheduled for July. Deputy Education Minister Chang Liao Wan-jien says the incident harmed Yeh's right to participate in competitions, and the association failed to actively respond to public concerns. While Cabinet spokeswoman Michelle Lee says Premier Cho Jung-tai is calling on national sports associations to listen to athletes and their coaches in regards the scheduling of events. EVA Air joins IATA's Turbulence Aware Platform to enhance flight safety EVA Airways has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Air Transport Association to join its Turbulence Aware platform - which seeks to improve flight safety through real-time data sharing. Airline President Clay Sun says the carrier believes that joining the program will help pilots and dispatchers better analyze real-time data, plan and choose appropriate flight paths to avoid areas with higher turbulence (亂流) risks, and ensure passenger safety. The agreement was signed by Sun and International Air Transport Association Director General Willie Walsh during the association's three-day annual general meeting in New Delhi this past weekend. The International Air Transport Association says participating airlines generated a total of 51.8-million turbulence reports in 2024, a 35-per cent increase from 2023, which is highly beneficial in reducing the damage caused by turbulence. UN Elects ExGerman FM as Assembly President The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly elected Germany's former foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to be the next head of the 193-member world body. The vote was held Monday by a secret-ballot demanded by Russia. Russia objected to Baerbock, accusing her of having pursued (從事，實行) an “anti-Russia policy,” Baerbock will replace the current assembly president at the start of the 80th session in September. US Boulder Attack More Victims IDed From the US…. Four additional victims have been identified in Boulder, Colorado attack, bringing number of injured to 12. The FBI says the suspect had been planning the attack for a year. He has been charged with a hate crime (仇恨犯罪). AP's Lisa Dwyer reports Caribbean Dust Cloud Heads Towards US A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is blanketing most of the Caribbean in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. Experts say the cloud extends some 3,200 kilometers from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 1,200 kilometers from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago. The hazy (霧濛濛的) skies unleashed sneezes, coughs and watery eyes across the Caribbean. Forecasters say the plume is expected to hit Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi late this week and into the weekend. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _____. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

In this inspiring episode, Marc Scott chat's with Jessica Trinidad, a powerhouse Latina voice actor who built a thriving voice over business — not from LA or NYC, but right from the heart of Iowa!

¿Sabías que “guardar” la Palabra de Dios va mucho más allá de simplemente leerla? En este video basado en el Evangelio de Juan 14, 23-29, te revelamos las 3 formas esenciales de entender y vivir Su Palabra: Sus Mandamientos, Su Mensaje y ⁠Su Ejemplo de vida. Estas dimensiones te ayudarán a vivir una verdadera relación con Dios, permitiendo que la Santísima Trinidad habite en ti, como lo prometió Jesús. Reflexionamos con profundidad sobre el verbo griego τηρέω (“guardar”), con enseñanzas de San Juan Pablo II, San Agustín y Benedicto XVI, para ayudarte a comprender qué significa realmente ser “morada de Dios”. ¡No te pierdas esta enseñanza que puede transformar tu forma de acercarte a la Biblia y a tu fe!

Si la Resurrección es la fiesta de la fe y la Pentecostés la del amor, la Ascensión es la fiesta de la esperanza. Nos ancla en nuestro futuro. Estaremos en el seno de la Trinidad también corporalmente, y esa ilusión nos invita a vivir ya desde ahora contemplativamente. “En la línea del horizonte parece que se juntan el cielo y la tierra, pero donde de verdad se juntan es en vuestros corazones”, escribió san Josemaría (Conversaciones, 116).

Ever feel trapped in your own box? In this brutally honest episode, Mss Francois (the Multi-talented and Super Sexy powerhouse from Trinidad and Tobago) exposes the immigrant journey nobody talks about—being kicked to the curb with her belongings in garbage bags just months after arriving in America.She doesn't sugarcoat it: "It sucked. I hated it." But from those black trash bags emerged unfiltered wisdom on building success when nobody believes in you. Discover why strangers often lift you higher than your own family, why your phone contacts list might be sabotaging your future, and how to escape the perfection trap that's killing your progress.This isn't your typical "work hard and succeed" pep talk. It's a no-bullshit conversation about recognizing when fear of success is more paralyzing than fear of failure, why your team doesn't need to be physically near you to change your life, and how humor can literally heal your body while building your confidence.Follow Mss Francois: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mss-francois-31350a1b3/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MssFrancois/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mss_francois/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mss_francois Twitter: https://x.com/Mss_Francois?s=09 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMssFrancoisShow1As always we ask you to comment, DM, whatever it takes to have a conversation to help you take the next step in your journey, reach out on any platform!Twitter, FaceBook, Instagram, Tiktok, LinkedinDISCLOSURE: Awards and rankings by third parties are not indicative of future performance or client investment success. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All investment strategies carry profit/loss potential and cannot eliminate investment risks. Information discussed may not reflect current positions/recommendations. While believed accurate, Black Mammoth does not guarantee information accuracy. This broadcast is not a solicitation for securities transactions or personalized investment advice. Tax/estate planning information is general - consult professionals for specific situations. Full disclosures at www.blackmammoth.com.

In our May 2025 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Communications Strategist, Liselle Yorke, who is based in the United States but originally from Trinidad and Tobago, and Rojane Rose, a Product Manager in Jamaica, the panel discusses the following three topics:   *  Who's watching our data?   *  AI in the Caribbean: hype or opportunity? and   *  Building Smart Islands: Why aren't we there yet?   The episode, show notes and links to some of the things mentioned during the episode can be found on the ICT Pulse Podcast Page (www.ict-pulse.com/category/podcast/)       Enjoyed the episode?  Do rate the show and leave us a review!       Also, connect with us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ICTPulse/   Instagram –  https://www.instagram.com/ictpulse/   Twitter –  https://twitter.com/ICTPulse   LinkedIn –  https://www.linkedin.com/company/3745954/admin/   Join our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/qnUtj    Music credit: The Last Word (Oui Ma Chérie), by Andy Narrell Podcast editing support:  Mayra Bonilla Lopez   ---------------

Send us a textIn this episode of Art and Processes, host Emeka Okereke sits down with renowned Cuban contemporary artist Alexandre Arrechea. Born in Trinidad de Cuba—a UNESCO World Heritage Site steeped in colonial history—Arrechea's work explores themes of power, surveillance, architecture, and public engagement. From his early days painting trucks for his uncle to co-founding the influential collective Los Carpinteros, and later forging a distinguished solo career, Arrechea's journey is a testament to the transformative power of art.The conversation spans his upbringing in Cuba, the robust educational system that shaped his worldview, and how his multidisciplinary practice—encompassing sculpture, installation, video, painting, and performance—continually challenges conventional notions of form and function. Arrechea also shares insights into collaborations with institutions such as the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and discusses monumental public works like No Limits on Park Avenue, New York, and the Hexagon Garden created for Balmain. He further reflects on earlier works such as White Corner (2006) and The Garden of Mistrust (2006), unpacking how they exemplify his approach to context-specific art-making.Employing the emotive lure of anecdotes, Arrechea takes us down memory lane, weaving an intertwining arc of a life of creative explorations that began as early as the age of 11 and continues to this day—a life that has come to mean, for him, a learning curve that never stops, driven by an ever-burning urge to expand language and correlate contexts across places and people. In one of his most striking interventions, he asked: “How can we turn straight lines into curved lines?” This question signals the subtle yet consistent quality of malleability that undergirds much of his artistic proposals. It is his way of bringing sensitivity, play, and humanness into the often heavy-handed world of sharp edges, fixed forms, and solid surfaces—hallmarks of structural integrity.Thus, listeners are invited into the nuanced thinking behind his practice—how it bridges personal and collective narratives, navigates sociopolitical tension, and partakes in the synthesis of the “I” and the “we,” the subjective and the collective—while positioning art as a tool for healing, dialogue, connection, and meaning-making. Key Topics Discussed:Early Influences: Growing up in Trinidad de Cuba, the impact of colonial architecture, and the familial environment that nurtured his artistic curiosity.Artistic Education: The rigorous Cuban art school system, mentorship under René Francisco, and the formative years of his collective, Los Carpinteros.Public Art & Architecture: The philosophies underpinning works like No Limits (Park Avenue) and Orange Functional (a basketball hoop tree), which invite public interaction and subvert structural hegemony.Collaborations: Designing sets for Black Sabbath: The Ballet and fusing rock culture with classical dance.Decolonizing Practice: How Arrechea's work reconciles contradiction, integrates the “I” and the “we,” and fosters cross-cultural dialogue.Art as Healing: The role of art in restorinSupport the showHi, amazing listeners! Emeka Okereke here. I am the founder and host of this show. If you've enjoyed the stories, insights, and creativity we bring to this podcast series, I invite you to join my Patreon community at patreon.com/EmekaOkereke.

George Leacock has been a pivotal figure in both the sporting and media landscapes of Tobago. As the owner and managing director of Radio Tambrin,  @TambrinTobago  a prominent radio station based in Scarborough, he has successfully fused his passion for sport with his media expertise. His career in sports management began when he recognized the need for structured athletic programs in Tobago, leading him to establish the first division of sport on the island. Utilizing limited resources, George developed elite sports programs that significantly elevated the performance of local athletes, enabling them to participate successfully in national and international competitions. His commitment to sport has led to the organizing of high-profile events, including the FIFA U-17 World Cup and the Carifta Games, showcasing Tobago on the global stage. In recognition of his contributions, George was awarded the Chaconia Medal (Silver), a prestigious honor in Trinidad and Tobago, which highlights his impact not only in sports but also in media. He views this accolade as a platform to inspire others in the community to pursue excellence in their endeavors. As chairman of the task force for the Tobago leg of the #Trinbago2023 Commonwealth Youth Games, George played a crucial role in promoting youth development through sports. His leadership has strengthened the community's engagement in athletics, fostering a new generation of talented athletes. Founded to provide a comprehensive mix of entertainment, information, and music, Radio Tambrin has become a cornerstone of the Tobago media landscape. With an enthusiastic team that includes professionals like Latoya Thomas and wife, Carol Leacock, the station broadcasts a diverse range of programming that reflects the culture and interests of the local community. Radio Tambrin not only focuses on music entertainment but also serves as a platform for community stories, local issues, and sporting highlights. Under George's direction, the station has played an important role in shaping public discourse and celebrating Tobago's rich culture.George Leacock's dual role as a sports leader and media director at Radio Tambrin exemplifies his commitment to community development in Tobago, inspiring many through his achievements and dedication....and his wit is keen.

Yesterday, the self-styled San Francisco “progressive” Joan Williams was on the show arguing that Democrats need to relearn the language of the American working class. But, as some of you have noted, Williams seems oblivious to the fact that politics is about more than simply aping other people's language. What you say matters, and the language of American working class, like all industrial working classes, is rooted in a critique of capitalism. She should probably read the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy's excellent new book, Capitalism and its Critics, which traces capitalism's evolution and criticism from the East India Company through modern times. He defines capitalism as production for profit by privately-owned companies in markets, encompassing various forms from Chinese state capitalism to hyper-globalization. The book examines capitalism's most articulate critics including the Luddites, Marx, Engels, Thomas Carlisle, Adam Smith, Rosa Luxemburg, Keynes & Hayek, and contemporary figures like Sylvia Federici and Thomas Piketty. Cassidy explores how major economists were often critics of their era's dominant capitalist model, and untangles capitalism's complicated relationship with colonialism, slavery and AI which he regards as a potentially unprecedented economic disruption. This should be essential listening for all Democrats seeking to reinvent a post Biden-Harris party and message. 5 key takeaways* Capitalism has many forms - From Chinese state capitalism to Keynesian managed capitalism to hyper-globalization, all fitting the basic definition of production for profit by privately-owned companies in markets.* Great economists are typically critics - Smith criticized mercantile capitalism, Keynes critiqued laissez-faire capitalism, and Hayek/Friedman opposed managed capitalism. Each generation's leading economists challenge their era's dominant model.* Modern corporate structure has deep roots - The East India Company was essentially a modern multinational corporation with headquarters, board of directors, stockholders, and even a private army - showing capitalism's organizational continuity across centuries.* Capitalism is intertwined with colonialism and slavery - Industrial capitalism was built on pre-existing colonial and slave systems, particularly through the cotton industry and plantation economies.* AI represents a potentially unprecedented disruption - Unlike previous technological waves, AI may substitute rather than complement human labor on a massive scale, potentially creating political backlash exceeding even the "China shock" that contributed to Trump's rise.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. A couple of days ago, we did a show with Joan Williams. She has a new book out, "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back." A book about language, about how to talk to the American working class. She also had a piece in Jacobin Magazine, an anti-capitalist magazine, about how the left needs to speak to what she calls average American values. We talked, of course, about Bernie Sanders and AOC and their language of fighting oligarchy, and the New York Times followed that up with "The Enduring Power of Anti-Capitalism in American Politics."But of course, that brings the question: what exactly is capitalism? I did a little bit of research. We can find definitions of capitalism from AI, from Wikipedia, even from online dictionaries, but I thought we might do a little better than relying on Wikipedia and come to a man who's given capitalism and its critics a great deal of thought. John Cassidy is well known as a staff writer at The New Yorker. He's the author of a wonderful book, the best book, actually, on the dot-com insanity. And his new book, "Capitalism and its Critics," is out this week. John, congratulations on the book.So I've got to be a bit of a schoolmaster with you, John, and get some definitions first. What exactly is capitalism before we get to criticism of it?John Cassidy: Yeah, I mean, it's a very good question, Andrew. Obviously, through the decades, even the centuries, there have been many different definitions of the term capitalism and there are different types of capitalism. To not be sort of too ideological about it, the working definition I use is basically production for profit—that could be production of goods or mostly in the new and, you know, in today's economy, production of services—for profit by companies which are privately owned in markets. That's a very sort of all-encompassing definition.Within that, you can have all sorts of different types of capitalism. You can have Chinese state capitalism, you can have the old mercantilism, which industrial capitalism came after, which Trump seems to be trying to resurrect. You can have Keynesian managed capitalism that we had for 30 or 40 years after the Second World War, which I grew up in in the UK. Or you can have sort of hyper-globalization, hyper-capitalism that we've tried for the last 30 years. There are all those different varieties of capitalism consistent with a basic definition, I think.Andrew Keen: That keeps you busy, John. I know you started this project, which is a big book and it's a wonderful book. I read it. I don't always read all the books I have on the show, but I read from cover to cover full of remarkable stories of the critics of capitalism. You note in the beginning that you began this in 2016 with the beginnings of Trump. What was it about the 2016 election that triggered a book about capitalism and its critics?John Cassidy: Well, I was reporting on it at the time for The New Yorker and it struck me—I covered, I basically covered the economy in various forms for various publications since the late 80s, early 90s. In fact, one of my first big stories was the stock market crash of '87. So yes, I am that old. But it seemed to me in 2016 when you had Bernie Sanders running from the left and Trump running from the right, but both in some way offering very sort of similar critiques of capitalism. People forget that Trump in 2016 actually was running from the left of the Republican Party. He was attacking big business. He was attacking Wall Street. He doesn't do that these days very much, but at the time he was very much posing as the sort of outsider here to protect the interests of the average working man.And it seemed to me that when you had this sort of pincer movement against the then ruling model, this wasn't just a one-off. It seemed to me it was a sort of an emerging crisis of legitimacy for the system. And I thought there could be a good book written about how we got to here. And originally I thought it would be a relatively short book just based on the last sort of 20 or 30 years since the collapse of the Cold War and the sort of triumphalism of the early 90s.But as I got into it more and more, I realized that so many of the issues which had been raised, things like globalization, rising inequality, monopoly power, exploitation, even pollution and climate change, these issues go back to the very start of the capitalist system or the industrial capitalist system back in sort of late 18th century, early 19th century Britain. So I thought, in the end, I thought, you know what, let's just do the whole thing soup to nuts through the eyes of the critics.There have obviously been many, many histories of capitalism written. I thought that an original way to do it, or hopefully original, would be to do a sort of a narrative through the lives and the critiques of the critics of various stages. So that's, I hope, what sets it apart from other books on the subject, and also provides a sort of narrative frame because, you know, I am a New Yorker writer, I realize if you want people to read things, you've got to make it readable. Easiest way to make things readable is to center them around people. People love reading about other people. So that's sort of the narrative frame. I start off with a whistleblower from the East India Company back in the—Andrew Keen: Yeah, I want to come to that. But before, John, my sense is that to simplify what you're saying, this is a labor of love. You're originally from Leeds, the heart of Yorkshire, the center of the very industrial revolution, the first industrial revolution where, in your historical analysis, capitalism was born. Is it a labor of love? What's your family relationship with capitalism? How long was the family in Leeds?John Cassidy: Right, I mean that's a very good question. It is a labor of love in a way, but it's not—our family doesn't go—I'm from an Irish family, family of Irish immigrants who moved to England in the 1940s and 1950s. So my father actually did start working in a big mill, the Kirkstall Forge in Leeds, which is a big steel mill, and he left after seeing one of his co-workers have his arms chopped off in one of the machinery, so he decided it wasn't for him and he spent his life working in the construction industry, which was dominated by immigrants as it is here now.So I don't have a—it's not like I go back to sort of the start of the industrial revolution, but I did grow up in the middle of Leeds, very working class, very industrial neighborhood. And what a sort of irony is, I'll point out, I used to, when I was a kid, I used to play golf on a municipal golf course called Gotts Park in Leeds, which—you know, most golf courses in America are sort of in the affluent suburbs, country clubs. This was right in the middle of Armley in Leeds, which is where the Victorian jail is and a very rough neighborhood. There's a small bit of land which they built a golf course on. It turns out it was named after one of the very first industrialists, Benjamin Gott, who was a wool and textile industrialist, and who played a part in the Luddite movement, which I mention.So it turns out, I was there when I was 11 or 12, just learning how to play golf on this scrappy golf course. And here I am, 50 years later, writing about Benjamin Gott at the start of the Industrial Revolution. So yeah, no, sure. I think it speaks to me in a way that perhaps it wouldn't to somebody else from a different background.Andrew Keen: We did a show with William Dalrymple, actually, a couple of years ago. He's been on actually since, the Anglo or Scottish Indian historian. His book on the East India Company, "The Anarchy," is a classic. You begin in some ways your history of capitalism with the East India Company. What was it about the East India Company, John, that makes it different from other for-profit organizations in economic, Western economic history?John Cassidy: I mean, I read that. It's a great book, by the way. That was actually quoted in my chapter on these. Yeah, I remember. I mean, the reason I focused on it was for two reasons. Number one, I was looking for a start, a narrative start to the book. And it seemed to me, you know, the obvious place to start is with the start of the industrial revolution. If you look at economics history textbooks, that's where they always start with Arkwright and all the inventors, you know, who were the sort of techno-entrepreneurs of their time, the sort of British Silicon Valley, if you could think of it as, in Lancashire and Derbyshire in the late 18th century.So I knew I had to sort of start there in some way, but I thought that's a bit pat. Is there another way into it? And it turns out that in 1772 in England, there was a huge bailout of the East India Company, very much like the sort of 2008, 2009 bailout of Wall Street. The company got into trouble. So I thought, you know, maybe there's something there. And I eventually found this guy, William Bolts, who worked for the East India Company, turned into a whistleblower after he was fired for finagling in India like lots of the people who worked for the company did.So that gave me two things. Number one, it gave me—you know, I'm a writer, so it gave me something to focus on a narrative. His personal history is very interesting. But number two, it gave me a sort of foundation because industrial capitalism didn't come from nowhere. You know, it was built on top of a pre-existing form of capitalism, which we now call mercantile capitalism, which was very protectionist, which speaks to us now. But also it had these big monopolistic multinational companies.The East India Company, in some ways, was a very modern corporation. It had a headquarters in Leadenhall Street in the city of London. It had a board of directors, it had stockholders, the company sent out very detailed instructions to the people in the field in India and Indonesia and Malaysia who were traders who bought things from the locals there, brought them back to England on their company ships. They had a company army even to enforce—to protect their operations there. It was an incredible multinational corporation.So that was also, I think, fascinating because it showed that even in the pre-existing system, you know, big corporations existed, there were monopolies, they had royal monopolies given—first the East India Company got one from Queen Elizabeth. But in some ways, they were very similar to modern monopolistic corporations. And they had some of the problems we've seen with modern monopolistic corporations, the way they acted. And Bolts was the sort of first corporate whistleblower, I thought. Yeah, that was a way of sort of getting into the story, I think. Hopefully, you know, it's just a good read, I think.William Bolts's story because he was—he came from nowhere, he was Dutch, he wasn't even English and he joined the company as a sort of impoverished young man, went to India like a lot of English minor aristocrats did to sort of make your fortune. The way the company worked, you had to sort of work on company time and make as much money as you could for the company, but then in your spare time you're allowed to trade for yourself. So a lot of the—without getting into too much detail, but you know, English aristocracy was based on—you know, the eldest child inherits everything, so if you were the younger brother of the Duke of Norfolk, you actually didn't inherit anything. So all of these minor aristocrats, so major aristocrats, but who weren't first born, joined the East India Company, went out to India and made a fortune, and then came back and built huge houses. Lots of the great manor houses in southern England were built by people from the East India Company and they were known as Nabobs, which is an Indian term. So they were the sort of, you know, billionaires of their time, and it was based on—as I say, it wasn't based on industrial capitalism, it was based on mercantile capitalism.Andrew Keen: Yeah, the beginning of the book, which focuses on Bolts and the East India Company, brings to mind for me two things. Firstly, the intimacy of modern capitalism, modern industrial capitalism with colonialism and of course slavery—lots of books have been written on that. Touch on this and also the relationship between the birth of capitalism and the birth of liberalism or democracy. John Stuart Mill, of course, the father in many ways of Western democracy. His day job, ironically enough, or perhaps not ironically, was at the East India Company. So how do those two things connect, or is it just coincidental?John Cassidy: Well, I don't think it is entirely coincidental, I mean, J.S. Mill—his father, James Mill, was also a well-known philosopher in the sort of, obviously, in the earlier generation, earlier than him. And he actually wrote the official history of the East India Company. And I think they gave his son, the sort of brilliant protégé, J.S. Mill, a job as largely as a sort of sinecure, I think. But he did go in and work there in the offices three or four days a week.But I think it does show how sort of integral—the sort of—as you say, the inheritor and the servant in Britain, particularly, of colonial capitalism was. So the East India Company was, you know, it was in decline by that stage in the middle of the 19th century, but it didn't actually give up its monopoly. It wasn't forced to give up its monopoly on the Indian trade until 1857, after, you know, some notorious massacres and there was a sort of public outcry.So yeah, no, that's—it's very interesting that the British—it's sort of unique to Britain in a way, but it's interesting that industrial capitalism arose alongside this pre-existing capitalist structure and somebody like Mill is a sort of paradoxical figure because actually he was quite critical of aspects of industrial capitalism and supported sort of taxes on the rich, even though he's known as the great, you know, one of the great apostles of the free market and free market liberalism. And his day job, as you say, he was working for the East India Company.Andrew Keen: What about the relationship between the birth of industrial capitalism, colonialism and slavery? Those are big questions and I know you deal with them in some—John Cassidy: I think you can't just write an economic history of capitalism now just starting with the cotton industry and say, you know, it was all about—it was all about just technical progress and gadgets, etc. It was built on a sort of pre-existing system which was colonial and, you know, the slave trade was a central element of that. Now, as you say, there have been lots and lots of books written about it, the whole 1619 project got an incredible amount of attention a few years ago. So I didn't really want to rehash all that, but I did want to acknowledge the sort of role of slavery, especially in the rise of the cotton industry because of course, a lot of the raw cotton was grown in the plantations in the American South.So the way I actually ended up doing that was by writing a chapter about Eric Williams, a Trinidadian writer who ended up as the Prime Minister of Trinidad when it became independent in the 1960s. But when he was younger, he wrote a book which is now regarded as a classic. He went to Oxford to do a PhD, won a scholarship. He was very smart. I won a sort of Oxford scholarship myself but 50 years before that, he came across the Atlantic and did an undergraduate degree in history and then did a PhD there and his PhD thesis was on slavery and capitalism.And at the time, in the 1930s, the link really wasn't acknowledged. You could read any sort of standard economic history written by British historians, and they completely ignored that. He made the argument that, you know, slavery was integral to the rise of capitalism and he basically started an argument which has been raging ever since the 1930s and, you know, if you want to study economic history now you have to sort of—you know, have to have to address that. And the way I thought, even though the—it's called the Williams thesis is very famous. I don't think many people knew much about where it came from. So I thought I'd do a chapter on—Andrew Keen: Yeah, that chapter is excellent. You mentioned earlier the Luddites, you're from Yorkshire where Luddism in some ways was born. One of the early chapters is on the Luddites. We did a show with Brian Merchant, his book, "Blood in the Machine," has done very well, I'm sure you're familiar with it. I always understood the Luddites as being against industrialization, against the machine, as opposed to being against capitalism. But did those two things get muddled together in the history of the Luddites?John Cassidy: I think they did. I mean, you know, Luddites, when we grew up, I mean you're English too, you know to be called a Luddite was a term of abuse, right? You know, you were sort of antediluvian, anti-technology, you're stupid. It was only, I think, with the sort of computer revolution, the tech revolution of the last 30, 40 years and the sort of disruptions it's caused, that people have started to look back at the Luddites and say, perhaps they had a point.For them, they were basically pre-industrial capitalism artisans. They worked for profit-making concerns, small workshops. Some of them worked for themselves, so they were sort of sole proprietor capitalists. Or they worked in small venues, but the rise of industrial capitalism, factory capitalism or whatever, basically took away their livelihoods progressively. So they associated capitalism with new technology. In their minds it was the same. But their argument wasn't really a technological one or even an economic one, it was more a moral one. They basically made the moral argument that capitalists shouldn't have the right to just take away their livelihoods with no sort of recompense for them.At the time they didn't have any parliamentary representation. You know, they weren't revolutionaries. The first thing they did was create petitions to try and get parliament to step in, sort of introduce some regulation here. They got turned down repeatedly by the sort of—even though it was a very aristocratic parliament, places like Manchester and Leeds didn't have any representation at all. So it was only after that that they sort of turned violent and started, you know, smashing machines and machines, I think, were sort of symbols of the system, which they saw as morally unjust.And I think that's sort of what—obviously, there's, you know, a lot of technological disruption now, so we can, especially as it starts to come for the educated cognitive class, we can sort of sympathize with them more. But I think the sort of moral critique that there's this, you know, underneath the sort of great creativity and economic growth that capitalism produces, there is also a lot of destruction and a lot of victims. And I think that message, you know, is becoming a lot more—that's why I think why they've been rediscovered in the last five or ten years and I'm one of the people I guess contributing to that rediscovery.Andrew Keen: There's obviously many critiques of capitalism politically. I want to come to Marx in a second, but your chapter, I thought, on Thomas Carlyle and this nostalgic conservatism was very important and there are other conservatives as well. John, do you think that—and you mentioned Trump earlier, who is essentially a nostalgist for a—I don't know, some sort of bizarre pre-capitalist age in America. Is there something particularly powerful about the anti-capitalism of romantics like Carlyle, 19th century Englishman, there were many others of course.John Cassidy: Well, I think so. I mean, I think what is—conservatism, when we were young anyway, was associated with Thatcherism and Reaganism, which, you know, lionized the free market and free market capitalism and was a reaction against the pre-existing form of capitalism, Keynesian capitalism of the sort of 40s to the 80s. But I think what got lost in that era was the fact that there have always been—you've got Hayek up there, obviously—Andrew Keen: And then Keynes and Hayek, the two—John Cassidy: Right, it goes to the end of that. They had a great debate in the 1930s about these issues. But Hayek really wasn't a conservative person, and neither was Milton Friedman. They were sort of free market revolutionaries, really, that you'd let the market rip and it does good things. And I think that that sort of a view, you know, it just became very powerful. But we sort of lost sight of the fact that there was also a much older tradition of sort of suspicion of radical changes of any type. And that was what conservatism was about to some extent. If you think about Baldwin in Britain, for example.And there was a sort of—during the Industrial Revolution, some of the strongest supporters of factory acts to reduce hours and hourly wages for women and kids were actually conservatives, Tories, as they were called at the time, like Ashley. That tradition, Carlyle was a sort of extreme representative of that. I mean, Carlyle was a sort of proto-fascist, let's not romanticize him, he lionized strongmen, Frederick the Great, and he didn't really believe in democracy. But he also had—he was appalled by the sort of, you know, the—like, what's the phrase I'm looking for? The sort of destructive aspects of industrial capitalism, both on the workers, you know, he said it was a dehumanizing system, sounded like Marx in some ways. That it dehumanized the workers, but also it destroyed the environment.He was an early environmentalist. He venerated the environment, was actually very strongly linked to the transcendentalists in America, people like Thoreau, who went to visit him when he visited Britain and he saw the sort of destructive impact that capitalism was having locally in places like Manchester, which were filthy with filthy rivers, etc. So he just saw the whole system as sort of morally bankrupt and he was a great writer, Carlyle, whatever you think of him. Great user of language, so he has these great ringing phrases like, you know, the cash nexus or calling it the Gospel of Mammonism, the shabbiest gospel ever preached under the sun was industrial capitalism.So, again, you know, that's a sort of paradoxical thing, because I think for so long conservatism was associated with, you know, with support for the free market and still is in most of the Republican Party, but then along comes Trump and sort of conquers the party with a, you know, more skeptical, as you say, romantic, not really based on any reality, but a sort of romantic view that America can stand by itself in the world. I mean, I see Trump actually as a sort of an effort to sort of throw back to mercantile capitalism in a way. You know, which was not just pre-industrial, but was also pre-democracy, run by monarchs, which I'm sure appeals to him, and it was based on, you know, large—there were large tariffs. You couldn't import things in the UK. If you want to import anything to the UK, you have to send it on a British ship because of the navigation laws. It was a very protectionist system and it's actually, you know, as I said, had a lot of parallels with what Trump's trying to do or tries to do until he backs off.Andrew Keen: You cheat a little bit in the book in the sense that you—everyone has their own chapter. We'll talk a little bit about Hayek and Smith and Lenin and Friedman. You do have one chapter on Marx, but you also have a chapter on Engels. So you kind of cheat. You combine the two. Is it possible, though, to do—and you've just written this book, so you know this as well as anyone. How do you write a book about capitalism and its critics and only really give one chapter to Marx, who is so dominant? I mean, you've got lots of Marxists in the book, including Lenin and Luxemburg. How fundamental is Marx to a criticism of capitalism? Is most criticism, especially from the left, from progressives, is it really just all a footnote to Marx?John Cassidy: I wouldn't go that far, but I think obviously on the left he is the central figure. But there's an element of sort of trying to rebuild Engels a bit in this. I mean, I think of Engels and Marx—I mean obviously Marx wrote the great classic "Capital," etc. But in the 1840s, when they both started writing about capitalism, Engels was sort of ahead of Marx in some ways. I mean, the sort of materialist concept, the idea that economics rules everything, Engels actually was the first one to come up with that in an essay in the 1840s which Marx then published in one of his—in the German newspaper he worked for at the time, radical newspaper, and he acknowledged openly that that was really what got him thinking seriously about economics, and even in the late—in 20, 25 years later when he wrote "Capital," all three volumes of it and the Grundrisse, just these enormous outpourings of analysis on capitalism.He acknowledged Engels's role in that and obviously Engels wrote the first draft of the Communist Manifesto in 1848 too, which Marx then topped and tailed and—he was a better writer obviously, Marx, and he gave it the dramatic language that we all know it for. So I think Engels and Marx together obviously are the central sort of figures in the sort of left-wing critique. But they didn't start out like that. I mean, they were very obscure, you've got to remember.You know, they were—when they were writing, Marx was writing "Capital" in London, it never even got published in English for another 20 years. It was just published in German. He was basically an expat. He had been thrown out of Germany, he had been thrown out of France, so England was last resort and the British didn't consider him a threat so they were happy to let him and the rest of the German sort of left in there. I think it became—it became the sort of epochal figure after his death really, I think, when he was picked up by the left-wing parties, which are especially the SPD in Germany, which was the first sort of socialist mass party and was officially Marxist until the First World War and there were great internal debates.And then of course, because Lenin and the Russians came out of that tradition too, Marxism then became the official doctrine of the Soviet Union when they adopted a version of it. And again there were massive internal arguments about what Marx really meant, and in fact, you know, one interpretation of the last 150 years of left-wing sort of intellectual development is as a sort of argument about what did Marx really mean and what are the important bits of it, what are the less essential bits of it. It's a bit like the "what did Keynes really mean" that you get in liberal circles.So yeah, Marx, obviously, this is basically an intellectual history of critiques of capitalism. In that frame, he is absolutely a central figure. Why didn't I give him more space than a chapter and a chapter and a half with Engels? There have been a million books written about Marx. I mean, it's not that—it's not that he's an unknown figure. You know, there's a best-selling book written in Britain about 20 years ago about him and then I was quoting, in my biographical research, I relied on some more recent, more scholarly biographies. So he's an endlessly fascinating figure but I didn't want him to dominate the book so I gave him basically the same space as everybody else.Andrew Keen: You've got, as I said, you've got a chapter on Adam Smith who's often considered the father of economics. You've got a chapter on Keynes. You've got a chapter on Friedman. And you've got a chapter on Hayek, all the great modern economists. Is it possible, John, to be a distinguished economist one way or the other and not be a critic of capitalism?John Cassidy: Well, I don't—I mean, I think history would suggest that the greatest economists have been critics of capitalism in their own time. People would say to me, what the hell have you got Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in a book about critics of capitalism? They were great exponents, defenders of capitalism. They loved the system. That is perfectly true. But in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, middle of the 20th century, they were actually arch-critics of the ruling form of capitalism at the time, which was what I call managed capitalism. What some people call Keynesianism, what other people call European social democracy, whatever you call it, it was a model of a mixed economy in which the government played a large role both in propping up demand and in providing an extensive social safety net in the UK and providing public healthcare and public education. It was a sort of hybrid model.Most of the economy in terms of the businesses remained in private hands. So most production was capitalistic. It was a capitalist system. They didn't go to the Soviet model of nationalizing everything and Britain did nationalize some businesses, but most places didn't. The US of course didn't but it was a form of managed capitalism. And Hayek and Friedman were both great critics of that and wanted to sort of move back to 19th century laissez-faire model.Keynes was a—was actually a great, I view him anyway, as really a sort of late Victorian liberal and was trying to protect as much of the sort of J.S. Mill view of the world as he could, but he thought capitalism had one fatal flaw: that it tended to fall into recessions and then they can snowball and the whole system can collapse which is what had basically happened in the early 1930s until Keynesian policies were adopted. Keynes sort of differed from a lot of his followers—I have a chapter on Joan Robinson in there, who were pretty left-wing and wanted to sort of use Keynesianism as a way to shift the economy quite far to the left. Keynes didn't really believe in that. He has a famous quote that, you know, once you get to full employment, you can then rely on the free market to sort of take care of things. He was still a liberal at heart.Going back to Adam Smith, why is he in a book on criticism of capitalism? And again, it goes back to what I said at the beginning. He actually wrote "The Wealth of Nations"—he explains in the introduction—as a critique of mercantile capitalism. His argument was that he was a pro-free trader, pro-small business, free enterprise. His argument was if you get the government out of the way, we don't need these government-sponsored monopolies like the East India Company. If you just rely on the market, the sort of market forces and competition will produce a good outcome. So then he was seen as a great—you know, he is then seen as the apostle of free market capitalism. I mean when I started as a young reporter, when I used to report in Washington, all the conservatives used to wear Adam Smith badges. You don't see Donald Trump wearing an Adam Smith badge, but that was the case.He was also—the other aspect of Smith, which I highlight, which is not often remarked on—he's also a critic of big business. He has a famous section where he discusses the sort of tendency of any group of more than three businessmen when they get together to try and raise prices and conspire against consumers. And he was very suspicious of, as I say, large companies, monopolies. I think if Adam Smith existed today, I mean, I think he would be a big supporter of Lina Khan and the sort of antitrust movement, he would say capitalism is great as long as you have competition, but if you don't have competition it becomes, you know, exploitative.Andrew Keen: Yeah, if Smith came back to live today, you have a chapter on Thomas Piketty, maybe he may not be French, but he may be taking that position about how the rich benefit from the structure of investment. Piketty's core—I've never had Piketty on the show, but I've had some of his followers like Emmanuel Saez from Berkeley. Yeah. How powerful is Piketty's critique of capitalism within the context of the classical economic analysis from Hayek and Friedman? Yeah, it's a very good question.John Cassidy: It's a very good question. I mean, he's a very paradoxical figure, Piketty, in that he obviously shot to world fame and stardom with his book on capital in the 21st century, which in some ways he obviously used the capital as a way of linking himself to Marx, even though he said he never read Marx. But he was basically making the same argument that if you leave capitalism unrestrained and don't do anything about monopolies etc. or wealth, you're going to get massive inequality and he—I think his great contribution, Piketty and the school of people, one of them you mentioned, around him was we sort of had a vague idea that inequality was going up and that, you know, wages were stagnating, etc.What he and his colleagues did is they produced these sort of scientific empirical studies showing in very simple to understand terms how the sort of share of income and wealth of the top 10 percent, the top 5 percent, the top 1 percent and the top 0.1 percent basically skyrocketed from the 1970s to about 2010. And it was, you know, he was an MIT PhD. Saez, who you mentioned, is a Berkeley professor. They were schooled in neoclassical economics at Harvard and MIT and places like that. So the right couldn't dismiss them as sort of, you know, lefties or Trots or whatever who're just sort of making this stuff up. They had to acknowledge that this was actually an empirical reality.I think it did change the whole basis of the debate and it was sort of part of this reaction against capitalism in the 2010s. You know it was obviously linked to the sort of Sanders and the Occupy Wall Street movement at the time. It came out of the—you know, the financial crisis as well when Wall Street disgraced itself. I mean, I wrote a previous book on all that, but people have sort of, I think, forgotten the great reaction against that a decade ago, which I think even Trump sort of exploited, as I say, by using anti-banker rhetoric at the time.So, Piketty was a great figure, I think, from, you know, I was thinking, who are the most influential critics of capitalism in the 21st century? And I think you'd have to put him up there on the list. I'm not saying he's the only one or the most eminent one. But I think he is a central figure. Now, of course, you'd think, well, this is a really powerful critic of capitalism, and nobody's going to pick up, and Bernie's going to take off and everything. But here we are a decade later now. It seems to be what the backlash has produced is a swing to the right, not a swing to the left. So that's, again, a sort of paradox.Andrew Keen: One person I didn't expect to come up in the book, John, and I was fascinated with this chapter, is Silvia Federici. I've tried to get her on the show. We've had some books about her writing and her kind of—I don't know, you treat her critique as a feminist one. The role of women. Why did you choose to write a chapter about Federici and that feminist critique of capitalism?John Cassidy: Right, right. Well, I don't think it was just feminist. I'll explain what I think it was. Two reasons. Number one, I wanted to get more women into the book. I mean, it's in some sense, it is a history of economics and economic critiques. And they are overwhelmingly written by men and women were sort of written out of the narrative of capitalism for a very long time. So I tried to include as many sort of women as actual thinkers as I could and I have a couple of early socialist feminist thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Flora Tristan and then I cover some of the—I cover Rosa Luxemburg as the great sort of tribune of the left revolutionary socialist, communist whatever you want to call it. Anti-capitalist I think is probably also important to note about. Yeah, and then I also have Joan Robinson, but I wanted somebody to do something in the modern era, and I thought Federici, in the world of the Wages for Housework movement, is very interesting from two perspectives.Number one, Federici herself is a Marxist, and I think she probably would still consider herself a revolutionary. She's based in New York, as you know now. She lived in New York for 50 years, but she came from—she's originally Italian and came out of the Italian left in the 1960s, which was very radical. Do you know her? Did you talk to her? I didn't talk to her on this. No, she—I basically relied on, there has been a lot of, as you say, there's been a lot of stuff written about her over the years. She's written, you know, she's given various long interviews and she's written a book herself, a version, a history of housework, so I figured it was all there and it was just a matter of pulling it together.But I think the critique, why the critique is interesting, most of the book is a sort of critique of how capitalism works, you know, in the production or you know, in factories or in offices or you know, wherever capitalist operations are working, but her critique is sort of domestic reproduction, as she calls it, the role of unpaid labor in supporting capitalism. I mean it goes back a long way actually. There was this moment, I sort of trace it back to the 1940s and 1950s when there were feminists in America who were demonstrating outside factories and making the point that you know, the factory workers and the operations of the factory, it couldn't—there's one of the famous sort of tire factory in California demonstrations where the women made the argument, look this factory can't continue to operate unless we feed and clothe the workers and provide the next generation of workers. You know, that's domestic reproduction. So their argument was that housework should be paid and Federici took that idea and a couple of her colleagues, she founded the—it's a global movement, but she founded the most famous branch in New York City in the 1970s. In Park Slope near where I live actually.And they were—you call it feminists, they were feminists in a way, but they were rejected by the sort of mainstream feminist movement, the sort of Gloria Steinems of the world, who Federici was very critical of because she said they ignored, they really just wanted to get women ahead in the sort of capitalist economy and they ignored the sort of underlying from her perspective, the underlying sort of illegitimacy and exploitation of that system. So they were never accepted as part of the feminist movement. They're to the left of the Feminist Movement.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Keynes, of course, so central in all this, particularly his analysis of the role of automation in capitalism. We did a show recently with Robert Skidelsky and I'm sure you're familiar—John Cassidy: Yeah, yeah, great, great biography of Keynes.Andrew Keen: Yeah, the great biographer of Keynes, whose latest book is "Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of AI." You yourself wrote a brilliant book on the last tech mania and dot-com capitalism. I used it in a lot of my writing and books. What's your analysis of AI in this latest mania and the role generally of manias in the history of capitalism and indeed in critiquing capitalism? Is AI just the next chapter of the dot-com boom?John Cassidy: I think it's a very deep question. I think I'd give two answers to it. In one sense it is just the latest mania the way—I mean, the way capitalism works is we have these, I go back to Kondratiev, one of my Russian economists who ended up being killed by Stalin. He was the sort of inventor of the long wave theory of capitalism. We have these short waves where you have sort of booms and busts driven by finance and debt etc. But we also have long waves driven by technology.And obviously, in the last 40, 50 years, the two big ones are the original deployment of the internet and microchip technology in the sort of 80s and 90s culminating in the dot-com boom of the late 90s, which as you say, I wrote about. Thanks very much for your kind comments on the book. If you just sort of compare it from a financial basis I think they are very similar just in terms of the sort of role of hype from Wall Street in hyping up these companies. The sort of FOMO aspect of it among investors that they you know, you can't miss out. So just buy the companies blindly. And the sort of lionization in the press and the media of, you know, of AI as the sort of great wave of the future.So if you take a sort of skeptical market based approach, I would say, yeah, this is just another sort of another mania which will eventually burst and it looked like it had burst for a few weeks when Trump put the tariffs up, now the market seemed to be recovering. But I think there is, there may be something new about it. I am not, I don't pretend to be a technical expert. I try to rely on the evidence of or the testimony of people who know the systems well and also economists who have studied it. It seems to me the closer you get to it the more alarming it is in terms of the potential shock value that there is there.I mean Trump and the sort of reaction to a larger extent can be traced back to the China shock where we had this global shock to American manufacturing and sort of hollowed out a lot of the industrial areas much of it, like industrial Britain was hollowed out in the 80s. If you, you know, even people like Altman and Elon Musk, they seem to think that this is going to be on a much larger scale than that and will basically, you know, get rid of the professions as they exist. Which would be a huge, huge shock. And I think a lot of the economists who studied this, who four or five years ago were relatively optimistic, people like Daron Acemoglu, David Autor—Andrew Keen: Simon Johnson, of course, who just won the Nobel Prize, and he's from England.John Cassidy: Simon, I did an event with Simon earlier this week. You know they've studied this a lot more closely than I have but I do interview them and I think five, six years ago they were sort of optimistic that you know this could just be a new steam engine or could be a microchip which would lead to sort of a lot more growth, rising productivity, rising productivity is usually associated with rising wages so sure there'd be short-term costs but ultimately it would be a good thing. Now, I think if you speak to them, they see since the, you know, obviously, the OpenAI—the original launch and now there's just this huge arms race with no government involvement at all I think they're coming to the conclusion that rather than being developed to sort of complement human labor, all these systems are just being rushed out to substitute for human labor. And it's just going, if current trends persist, it's going to be a China shock on an even bigger scale.You know what is going to, if that, if they're right, that is going to produce some huge political backlash at some point, that's inevitable. So I know—the thing when the dot-com bubble burst, it didn't really have that much long-term impact on the economy. People lost the sort of fake money they thought they'd made. And then the companies, obviously some of the companies like Amazon and you know Google were real genuine profit-making companies and if you bought them early you made a fortune. But AI does seem a sort of bigger, scarier phenomenon to me. I don't know. I mean, you're close to it. What do you think?Andrew Keen: Well, I'm waiting for a book, John, from you. I think you can combine dot-com and capitalism and its critics. We need you probably to cover it—you know more about it than me. Final question, I mean, it's a wonderful book and we haven't even scratched the surface everyone needs to get it. I enjoyed the chapter, for example, on Karl Polanyi and so much more. I mean, it's a big book. But my final question, John, is do you have any regrets about anyone you left out? The one person I would have liked to have been included was Rawls because of his sort of treatment of capitalism and luck as a kind of casino. I'm not sure whether you gave any thought to Rawls, but is there someone in retrospect you should have had a chapter on that you left out?John Cassidy: There are lots of people I left out. I mean, that's the problem. I mean there have been hundreds and hundreds of critics of capitalism. Rawls, of course, incredibly influential and his idea of the sort of, you know, the veil of ignorance that you should judge things not knowing where you are in the income distribution and then—Andrew Keen: And it's luck. I mean the idea of some people get lucky and some people don't.John Cassidy: It is the luck of the draw, obviously, what card you pull. I think that is a very powerful critique, but I just—because I am more of an expert on economics, I tended to leave out philosophers and sociologists. I mean, you know, you could say, where's Max Weber? Where are the anarchists? You know, where's Emma Goldman? Where's John Kenneth Galbraith, the sort of great mid-century critic of American industrial capitalism? There's so many people that you could include. I mean, I could have written 10 volumes. In fact, I refer in the book to, you know, there's always been a problem. G.D.H. Cole, a famous English historian, wrote a history of socialism back in the 1960s and 70s. You know, just getting to 1850 took him six volumes. So, you've got to pick and choose, and I don't claim this is the history of capitalism and its critics. That would be a ridiculous claim to make. I just claim it's a history written by me, and hopefully the people are interested in it, and they're sufficiently diverse that you can address all the big questions.Andrew Keen: Well it's certainly incredibly timely. Capitalism and its critics—more and more of them. Sometimes they don't even describe themselves as critics of capitalism when they're talking about oligarchs or billionaires, they're really criticizing capitalism. A must read from one of America's leading journalists. And would you call yourself a critic of capitalism, John?John Cassidy: Yeah, I guess I am, to some extent, sure. I mean, I'm not a—you know, I'm not on the far left, but I'd say I'm a center-left critic of capitalism. Yes, definitely, that would be fair.Andrew Keen: And does the left need to learn? Does everyone on the left need to read the book and learn the language of anti-capitalism in a more coherent and honest way?John Cassidy: I hope so. I mean, obviously, I'd be talking my own book there, as they say, but I hope that people on the left, but not just people on the left. I really did try to sort of be fair to the sort of right-wing critiques as well. I included the Carlyle chapter particularly, obviously, but in the later chapters, I also sort of refer to this emerging critique on the right, the sort of economic nationalist critique. So hopefully, I think people on the right could read it to understand the critiques from the left, and people on the left could read it to understand some of the critiques on the right as well.Andrew Keen: Well, it's a lovely book. It's enormously erudite and simultaneously readable. Anyone who likes John Cassidy's work from The New Yorker will love it. Congratulations, John, on the new book, and I'd love to get you back on the show as anti-capitalism in America picks up steam and perhaps manifests itself in the 2028 election. Thank you so much.John Cassidy: Thanks very much for inviting me on, it was fun.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

After spending 10 years in Trinidad and Tobago searching for the “modern Caribbean” lifestyle I had always envisioned—one that combined island living with tech-driven convenience—I finally found it in the most unexpected place: Thailand. In this episode, I take you on a deep dive into how Southern Thailand, with its breathtaking beaches, advanced digital infrastructure, and seamless logistics, delivered the lifestyle I had long been chasing in the Caribbean. I break down the day-to-day experience of living in the Thai islands, the technologies that make life frictionless, and the surprising lessons that CARICOM and Caribbean entrepreneurs can learn from Asia's playbook. This is not a vacation story. It's a blueprint for a new kind of island living—one that's possible when innovation meets paradise. Key Takeaways: 1. Island Living Doesn't Have to Mean Backward Systems Most of us associate tropical living with slow internet, limited services, and poor infrastructure—but Thailand proves otherwise. From 5G mobile service and QR code payments (even with street vendors) to affordable accommodations and logistics that run like clockwork, Thailand shows what's possible when islands prioritize digital convenience. 2. Technology Is the Bridge That Makes Integration Seamless Living in a non-English-speaking country with a different alphabet could've been a massive barrier—but it wasn't. Thanks to Google Maps, Translate, YouTube, and local super apps like Grab, Gowabi, Lazada, and Moreta Pay, I've been able to work, travel, and live stress-free across Thailand's islands. Technology has removed the friction from daily life. 3. This Should Be the Blueprint for the Caribbean The lifestyle I've found in Thailand—accessible, affordable, and supported by tech—shouldn't feel like a fantasy for Caribbean residents. CARICOM nations can take inspiration from Southeast Asia by improving logistics, embracing mobile-first solutions, and building infrastructure that supports both residents and tourists alike. We don't need to wait for luxury resorts—we need to build smarter systems from the ground up.   Learn more about building your digital presence at KeronRose.com or follow the podcast at Digipreneur.FM the website.   

Nickocy Phillips, a youth activist and entrepreneur, grew up in Buccoo Point, Tobago. She pursued an Associate Degree in Applied Science in Pharmacy at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT). She also obtained certifications in communication, micro-business, and entrepreneurship from the Youth Training and Employment Partnership Programme (YTEPP) Ltd. She became a notable dance choreographer and a skilled musician, playing the steel pan. Her commitment to youth advocacy led to her election as the youngest youth officer of the Buccoo Village Council. In 2015, Phillips gained national recognition by placing in the top ten of Trinidad and Tobago's first Youth Prime Minister Competition. This achievement laid the foundation for her role as an ambassador for the NGO TT Youths Will Rise (TTYR), which she co-founded, focusing on on community organization, education, and youth development, culminating in her representation of Trinidad and Tobago at the United Nations' 63rd Session on the Commission of the Status of Women in 2019. Phillips launched her political career as an independent candidate for the Tobago West seat in the August 2020 general elections. She founded the Unity of the People party, promoting transparency, equality, accountability, and unity for all. Nickocy emphasizes the need for self-governance, improved tourism, and better financial independence for Tobago. She pledged to represent all Tobagonians impartially and to address pressing issues such as the air and sea bridge services, local governance, and equitable distribution of resources. She has outspokenly criticized governmental policies, including mandatory vaccination initiatives, emphasizing individual rights and informed choices. Her background in pharmacy informs her advocacy in public health, urging proper education around vaccinations and health resources. Included in diplomatic discussions regarding bilateral agreements in Switzerland and Sierra Leone, Phillips continues to push for international collaboration to benefit young people in Tobago and Trinidad. Her initiatives include advocating for sustainable development projects aimed at creating job opportunities and enhancing the overall welfare of her community. She often conducts walkabouts to connect with residents. Her approach to politics eschews flashy presentations in favor of substantive conversations, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of her constituents' needs. Phillips believes in empowering the youth of Tobago, dedicating her time to orchestrating programs that address their challenges. She envisions establishing a comprehensive facility offering services to various demographics, including young people, single parents, and battered women. This initiative reflects her commitment to fostering a safe and supportive environment for vulnerable groups in Tobago. In summary, Nickocy Phillips embodies a blend of compassion, tenacity, and vision. Her journey reflects an unwavering commitment to uplifting her community, advocating for the rights of the marginalized, and fostering a more inclusive and equitable society. As her career unfolds, Phillips is poised to influence the political landscape of Tobago, driven by her dedication to service and community empowerment.Connect with Ambassador Nickocy Phillips: FB- Political Leader N Phillips

This week in the guest chair we have Maekaeda Gibbons, Trinidad-born founder & CEO of Brown Sugar Babe, the cult-favorite fragrance and body-care brand whose body oils like Wild Card and Rich Auntie just keep selling out. In this episode she shares:Turning a $300 paycheck into a side hustle that now ships 10,000+ orders a month Her exact growth playbook: pop-ups at Atlanta's Ponce City Market, a 20,000-member Facebook group, and influencer collaborations that went viral on the internetHow she approaches exploring various side hustle ideas as a multi passionate side hustlerHighlights Include:00:00 Intro06:00 Personal connection to scent09:00 Turning a business to a hobby15:00 Marketing strategies21:00 Financial growth and investment30:00 Importance of discipline in business40:00 Navigating debt46:00 Breaking the stigma around money53:00 Managing tariffs and business costs55:00 Tips for entrepreneursWatch episode 463 on YouTube and listen on all podcast appsLinks mentioned in this episodeBrown Sugar Babe Website: ttps://www.brownsugarbabe.net/ Shopify (e-commerce platform) – https://shopify.comPonce City Market Makers Market – https://poncecitymarket.comAsia Evans, Financial Therapist – @asiatherapy on InstagramBrown Sugar Babe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brwnsugarbabe/ Click here to subscribe via RSS feed (non-iTunes feed): http://sidehustlepro.libsyn.com/rssAnnouncementsJoin our Facebook CommunityIf you're looking for a community of supportive side hustlers who are all working to take our businesses to the next level, join us here: http://sidehustlepro.co/facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author and sculptor Via Hedera joined my to discuss Touch Blue by Lillian Morrison. Morrison compiled nursery rhymes, chants and charms, and more than a few spells in this book for children. Via and I discuss how this book came into her life, the impact it's had on her work and practice, and what we learned from the book and about Lillian Morrison along the way.You can read Via's excellent blog,  find out more about her work — including new articles in Llewellyn's datebook and calendar for 2025,  and find links to her various social media accounts on her website.In June, Aidan Wachter is joining me to discuss Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland. Aradiawas published in 1899 and is in the public domain. It is widely available online as an ebook and used and library copies are plentiful, if you'd like to read it before our discussion.Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com. You can follow us on BlueSky @witchlitpod.bsky.social.Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

This Week In Culture Episode 447: Breeze & Trinidad (#RaisingKanan S4 Finale). This week Ant and J. Johnson breakdown the final episode of season 4 of Raising Kanan! The guys discuss the reveal of a “major” character, Juke switching up and more. Stream the latest episode and sign up for the Patreon for exclusive content!

The episode ends at 16:50Greetings from the paddock to the United States, Canada, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica. Geography not being one of my strengths, I did not realize so many countries are considered in North America, but here they are; thank you all for listening to the podcast and sharing in the kingdom's concert of prayer.The wedding of Cana demonstrates the impossible God doing the impossible! At Mary's enigmatic request, Jesus asserts that His time has not yet come. In the language of Mary and Jesus, that meant, "I'll take care of it." Jesus turned at least 120 gallons of water into the finest of wines in a moment. This miracle, however, was not for the masses, but for the wedding guests. For at least five of the guests, there was a special purpose, but today we learn:Our So What?We pray in faith, and looking to God for the answers, we will see those seemingly small miracles that the Biblical characters experienced, too. Next time, we will see how our simplest prayers sometimes ripple out to have meaning far beyond all our expectations. "Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21Brethren, let's pray for one another. "What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'CheyneeDonation link:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab.Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard.www.freerangepreacheronprayer.comfreerangeprayer@gmail.comFacebook - Free Range Preacher MinistriesInstagram: freerangeministriesAll our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.For access to the Voice Over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.comOur podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 InstagramSeason 007Episode 044

En este capítulo entrevisto a Trinidad Ramsay, una de mis alumnas amadas que ha tomado prácticamente todos mis cursos. Trinidad nos cuenta sobre su conexión espiritual en la infancia y cómo siguió desarrollandola a lo largo de su vida con ejemplos tangibles y anécdotas muy interesantes.Para saber más de ella pueden escucharla en el podcast "Despeinando tu tercer ojo" o seguirla en su instagram @trini

Elspeth Duncan, is a Trinidadian multi-hyphenate creative based in Tobago. Born into a scholarly family in St. Augustine, Trinidad, her father is a professor of botany, and her mother worked as a librarian. Elspeth's upbringing fostered a love for travel and learning, pursuing an education at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, where she earned a B.A. in English Literature and minored in linguistics, general psychology and sociology at UWI. She later attained a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, driven by a desire to explore rehabilitation. She took part in Activities and societies: Women's Football Team; New Hall Women's Cricket Team; Squash; Cycling Elspeth's creative journey began in the advertising industry, where she worked as a Copywriter for McCann Erickson and Lonsdale/Saatchi & Saatchi for nearly a decade, crafting compelling campaigns across various media. In 2000, she founded Happy Hippie Productions, later becoming THOU ART YOGA. Elspeth is a KRI-certified Kundalini Yoga instructor since 2002, and has taught locally and internationally. Her dedication to animal welfare blossomed after relocating to Tobago in 2012, where she founded her nonprofit/NGO -Venus Doggess Of Love. This initiative aims to rescue, rehabilitate, and advocate for animals, with the belief that “Love changes lives.” Elspeth's commitment has earned her accolades, including the 2018 Angostura Champions Award for her significant contributions to animal welfare. Elspeth is an accomplished writer, of poetry, fiction, articles for Caribbean and international publications and scripts for film and theatre. Her first published work of fiction, Daisy Chain, links 53 women to each other in a chain of eclectic vignettes, some of which Elspeth intends to translate into film. She also paints and composes song lyrics and music that blends electronic and acoustic elements, reflecting her varied artistic talents. Her award-winning films, such as *Venus & Magnet*, showcase her storytelling prowess. Elspeth runs an intimate dining experience called Table For Two, curating personalized meals, that celebrates love and connection. Currently residing in Tobago with her three rescue dogs, Venus, Sheba and Brindle, and three cats, ABBA, Krispin, and Angelo, Elspeth continues to advocate for animal rescue and welfare.Elspeth Duncan embodies a unique blend of creativity, compassion, and commitment to positive change. Whether through her teachings, philanthropic efforts, culinary creations, or artistic expressions, she continually seeks to inspire and instill a sense of harmony in the world around her. As a devoted animal advocate and a passionate yoga instructor, she is dedicated to raising awareness and fostering connections—one class, one meal, and one rescued animal at a time. Elspeth enjoys nature, the outdoors, traveling, independent films, social and environmental activism, conscious living and any creative pursuit. Connect with this wonderful creative at:https://linktr.ee/elspethduncanhttps://www.facebook.com/elspeth.duncanhttps://www.facebook.com/VenusDoggessOfLoveCharlotteville Tails'—official selection 2025 at @caribbeanfilmfest11 - 15 June 2025, Trinidad #CharlottevilleTails #carribeanfilmfestival...see TRAILER HERE-https://youtu.be/r1sn6e9N8oQ?si=TqM4vXKpKobX5ah6

Grit, Resilience, and Joy with Corine LaFont | Your Message ReceivedHost John Duffin connects with Corine LaFont, a dynamic communications specialist, podcaster, and publisher. Corine delves into the transformative journey of discovering your true, authentic voice amidst life's challenges. Corine shares her compelling story of navigating her path from Trinidad and Tobago to Jamaica and back, highlighting the resilience, determination, and joy that have defined her career. Tune in to uncover actionable insights on beating the odds, embracing authenticity, and mastering the art of effective communication. My favorite part of this uplifting episode centers on Corine's coverage of "Inside the Box" creativity. There really are no limits, even when you are "confined"- just takes talent and work. Get ready to be inspired and empowered to make your voice heard!When you want to learn more about Corine LaFont, check out these links-below. https://www.linkedin.com/in/clafont/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-the-lines/id179343380901:18 Intro: Meet Corine LaFont02:37 Corine's Communication Journey05:23 Life in Trinidad and Tobago06:20 Transition to Jamaica10:47 Returning to Trinidad13:24 Building a Career in Communications26:08 Challenges and Strategies in Communication28:37 Overcoming the Fear of Authenticity30:05 Understanding and Addressing Personal Fears32:43 Cultural Perspectives on Worry36:21 Discovering and Leveraging Your Strengths46:43 The Importance of Feedback and Practice51:20 Successfully Navigating Toxic Relationships55:34 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

El saltarín barbiblanco vive en Trinidad y en gran parte de Sudamérica. Los machos cortejan a las hembras con chasquidos de alas que suenan como petardos. Un grupo de machos revolotea rápidamente de un tallo delgado y sin hojas a otro, apenas a unos 30 centímetros del suelo. Cuando el macho ve a la hembra cerca, se desliza por una ramita vertical, con la cabeza hacia abajo, las alas girando y las plumas blancas de la barbilla extendidas como si fueran una barba.Listen to this episode in English here. Más información y transcripción en BirdNote.org.¿Quieres más BirdNote? Suscríbete a nuestro boletín semanal. Regístrese en BirdNote+ para escuchar música sin publicidad y otras ventajas.BirdNote es una organización sin fines de lucro. Su donación deducible de impuestos hace posible estos espectáculos.

Welcome to the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast! In this compelling episode, Dr. Sarah Smith sits down with Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson—known as Dr. Toya—to discuss her transformative journey through medicine, from her beginnings in Trinidad and Tobago to her training as an OB/GYN in the US, and ultimately her bold decision to step away from clinical practice. Dr. Toya candidly opens up about her experiences with burnout in residency and corporate medicine, the toll it took on her personal well-being, and the moments that sparked real change in her career and life. She shares how a leap into entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic rekindled her confidence and purpose beyond clinical work, eventually inspiring her to become a coach for physician moms navigating medicine and motherhood. Dr. Toya reveals practical tools she used for efficiency, like templates and support systems, and emphasizes the importance of advocacy, boundaries, and accepting support—whether at work or at home. Tune in for an honest, inspiring conversation about resilience, redefining success in medicine, and the power of community and self-compassion in building a sustainable clinical career. Here are 3 key takeaways from this episode: Support Matters at Work and Home: Whether advocating for yourself in a tough clinical environment or building a support system at home, allowing yourself to be supported is crucial. As Dr. La Toya shared, “We have worked so hard to get where we are. Allow yourself to be supported.” Efficiency and Boundaries Fight Burnout: La Toya emphasized the power of systems, templates, and boundaries, both in patient care and personal life. Tackling the inbox right away, leveraging dictation and templates, and having clear work/home boundaries helped her stay efficient—and sane. Burnout Isn't the End—It's a Call to Innovate:Experiencing burnout multiple times gave Dr. La Toya new perspectives and fueled her pivot into entrepreneurship and coaching. She now empowers physician moms to carve their own pathways—inside or outside medicine: “They can stay in medicine if that's what they want. They can leave medicine if that's what they want. They can find their balance.” Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson Bio: Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson aka Dr. Toya, is a wife, mother, board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist, perinatal mental health specialist, and Coach. She helps Physician Moms thrive in medicine and motherhood without complete self-sacrifice. With over a decade of experience in women's health, Dr. Toya empowers physician moms through private and group coaching and her podcast, ✨Stethoscopes and Strollers✨ a space where physician moms can feel a little more seen and a lot less alone. -------------- Would you like to view a transcript of this episode? Click here Learn more about our guest: Website: https://drtoyacoaching.com Podcast: https://www.drtoyacoaching.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latoya.luces.5/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtoyacoaching LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/latoyalucessampson YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFusqULGoxtWl0IOyJPBZ-w **** Charting Champions is a premiere, lifetime access Physician only program that is helping Physicians get home with today's work done. All the proven tools, support and community you need to create time for your life outside of medicine. Learn more at https://www.chartingcoach.ca **** Enjoying this podcast? Please share it with someone who would benefit. Also, don't forget to hit “follow” so you get all the new episodes as soon as they are released. **** Come hang out with me on Facebook or Instagram. Follow me @chartingcoach to get more practical tools to help you create sustainable clinical medicine in your life. **** Questions? Comments? Want to share how this podcast has helped you? Shoot me an email at admin@reachcareercoaching.ca. I would love to hear from you.

Big John Leacock, a passionate community advocate and successful realtor, was born in Tobago and spent his formative years immersed in a diverse cultural and athletic environment. He attended Bishops High School in Tobago, where he was the most outstanding Player Basketball Award 1982, on the Basketball Championship team, a Cadet Force Drill Sergeant for the top platoon in country AND excelled In Ball Room Dancing in high School Dance Competitions!His higher education began at Dawson College in Montreal, earning a Diploma in Health and Social Sciences (1984-1987), excelling on the basketball court as a member of the Dawson College Blues, the number one ranked college team in Canada for two consecutive years (1986 and 1987). John continued his education at the University of Guelph, obtaining a Diploma in Agriculture with a focus on General Farm Management from 1987 to 1990, while also contributing to the university as a power forward for the Varsity Basketball Team. He earned a General Bachelor's degree in Marketing Management. Upon completing his diploma in Agriculture, he gained hands-on experience at the University of Guelph's Research Farms, working extensively with large animals and managing a feed mill. In 1992, John founded Big John Entertainment, promoting local club events and growing his email list of fans to over 350 by 1993, then served as a music director and radio announcer at CFRU 93.3FM from 1997 to 2001, where he increased advertising revenue as the Advertising Sales Manager. In 2001, Big John moved back to Tobago with his family and operated a bed and breakfast while promoting local cultural events, including jazz and writer's festivals, while creating Mr. Fiddla's Cafe, a popular light meal café and social spot.Returning to Canada in late 2002, Big John embarked on a career as a realtor on January 1, 2006, with Coldwell Banker Neumann Real Estate. Since then, he has consistently positioned himself among the top 5% of sales associates within the Guelph and District Association of Realtors in both commercial and residential real estate sectors. He holds a Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designation, enabling him to handle a wide array of real estate transactions, both locally and internationally. Mr. Leacock has served in various leadership capacities within the Guelph and District Association of Realtors, including as a past board member and chair of the Marketing, Public Relations, and Publicity Committees. He was instrumental in the creation of the independent real estate publication, "Real Estate Update," and actively participated in the rebranding efforts of the Association, with the view of: "Real Estate is not about houses – it's about people." He became involved with the Hillside Festival and served on the Hillside Board. A founding member of the Guelph Black Heritage Society, he has contributed to the Downtown Guelph Renewal Committee. For 8 eight years, Big John has played a significant role in Guelph's Downtown Advisory Committee, which works closely with City Council to enhance the downtown area's vibrancy. He is also on the Village Finding Committee. He regularly sponsors events such as: the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Gospel Festival, and Guelph Pride. Contact Mr. Leacock at: https://www.bigjohnleacock.com

Cecil Bartholomew aka Mr. B was born in Curepe, Trinidad, attended Presentation College in Chaguanas, worked at the license office then moved to the US to study. He gained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute in New York, bolstered by further studies in Artificial Intelligence at MIT as well as jazz and classical guitar. He served as an International Engineering Manager at Electronic Signature Analysis Technologies with Xerox for 30 years, in the US, South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australia, innovating strategic technologies to enhance component reusability. He returned to the Caribbean in 2000 as ICT director for OECS [Organization of eastern Caribbean States] under the leadership of the then Prime Minister of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique, Dr. Keith C. Mitchell. Mr. B resides in Saint George's, Grenada.He is a world-renowned Classical/Jazz guitar/Arranger/Composer, celebrated for his unique fusion of tropical rhythms and jazz structures and performed as a backup guitarist for visiting artists while he was active in New York City and had a significant performance history during the 1980s and 1990s. Although classically trained, Jazz became the main thrust. After a solo performance Gloucestershire England other performances occurred in Holland, Germany, France, and Australia, when a classical solo album was sold worldwide. Cecil also has two CDs. With a profound passion for music, he coined the term “Kingdom-Guitar,” emphasizing his commitment to integrate music with a powerful message. Cecil's musical journey began in Trinidad and continued in Grenada, where he developed a deep appreciation for the guitar under the mentorship of jazz legends Laurindo Almeida and Kenny Burrell. His compositions often reflect the Bossa Nova rhythm blended with cheerful lyrical jazz solos, creating a vibrant musical landscape in his works. Bartholomew's style, best described as "Tropical Jazz Fusion," artfully combines rock, calypso, and jazz standards, while also incorporating original compositions. As the composer and guitarist for the band, Bartholomew leads the ensemble's exploration of tropical jazz fusion, enhancing their sound through acoustic and electric guitar arrangements. The music produced is a harmonious blend of original works and creatively rearranged covers. Cecil was leader, composer and arranger of 2 bands: Akasa in the US and Quiet Fire in Grenada. His contributions in composition and arrangement helped shape the band's unique sound. He also played the double tenor steel pan and is a dedicated music instructor at Archibald Avenue Music since 2009.Presently retired, Mr. B performs weekly at the prestigious Calabash Hotel in Grenada and at special venues, mostly as a solo artist for the Government of Grenada and at other private events, while recording, teaching and changing the minds and hearts of youths through his music.A man of deep faith and conviction, Bartholomew sees music as a spiritual passage and a vehicle for societal change. He emphasizes discipline, effort, and heartfelt communication throughout, as well as advocating for women.

Segundo monográfico dedicado al calypso de Trinidad, Jamaica, Bermudas y las Islas Vírgenes, con temáticas tan pizarras como la reencarnación en chinche, el incesto humorístico, los monos canallas, las mujeres feas y el cambio de sexo. A partir de las ocho de la mañana del sábado en la sintonía de Radio 3.Escuchar audio

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Colin Williams, an award-winning talented photographer, was born as a twin in Trinidad and Tobago and raised in the vibrant urban landscape of New York City. His parents, Noel and Eastlyn Williams, instilled in him a strong sense of identity and connection to his Caribbean roots, with deep familial ties to Trinidad, tracing lineage back to his great-grandfather Paul Williams, who immigrated from Martinique to Trinidad and was pivotal in the cultural movement known as the #SoulBoys Growing up. Colin excelled in sports, notably as a member of the basketball team at Arima Senior Comprehensive in Trinidad. He is a devoted father to three beautiful daughters, often likening them to "a box of chocolates" Colin attended the Germain School of Photography and the New School of Visual Arts. His initial foray into the creative world began with modeling, in the high-profile fashion industry of Japan. He secured notable campaigns for brands like Suzuki, Nikon, and FILA. Professional Achievements: With over 40 years of experience in the film and photography industry, Colin served as a first and second assistant director, location manager, and freelance photographer for esteemed publications such as @nytimes NewyorkDailyNews, Essence.com. He has worked with companies and celebrities such as: Conrad New York Hotel, @amex Citibank, @lancomeusa AIG, @bloomingdales @macys @iflycaribbean jetBlue, @Forbes InStylemagazine, Ocean Style Magazine, Vanguard Media, BAHAMAS TOURISM AUTHORITIES, Barbuda Tourist Board, Caribbean Tourism Organization, Trinidad and Tobago Tourism, Brooklyn Chamber Of Commerce, The City Of New York, Berggruen Institute [Think Tank company]…… @AlJarreau Alvin Ailey, @missGraceJones @isaachayes Judith Jamison, @LilKim @MarthaStewart @methodman @barackobama Penny Commissiong, Quincy Jones, @whoopigoldberg + HARRY BELAFONTE @harrybelafonteofficial who has praised Colin for his impactful work. He founded the Eric Williams Appreciation Day through the Dr. Eric Williams Preservation, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He has volunteered with The Center for Arts Education, creating photography workshops for youth in New York City. Colin received the Nina Simone Young Gifted and Black Entrepreneurial Award in January 2010, recognizing his contributions to the arts and entrepreneurship. Colin has actively campaigned to promote Trinidad and Tobago's visibility. Colin's projects focus on historical figures and events significant to Trinidad and Tobago, such as the four Olympians who represented the nation in the 1960s and the legacy of Eric Williams. Colin dedicates much of his time to researching, documenting, and narrating stories that shape the identity of #trinidadandtobago fostering a cultural pride that transcends generations. Colin Williams is a passionate advocate for Caribbean #culture and #history -a steward of the stories that define his heritage, and a mentor to the younger generation. Colin inspires others to appreciate and celebrate the vibrant tapestry of Trinidad and Tobago's cultural landscape.For more on Colin Williams, go to -Inside The Call at: https://www.onthecallpodcast/insidethe call... To explore his portfolio, visit his website at (https://www.colinwilliamsphotography.com) or connect with him on social media @colinwphoto. Phone: 646-552-5521 Email: colinNwilliams@gmail.com

Alicia Aberdeen-Jones is a multifaceted artist and entrepreneur, renowned as the founder and co-owner of Alicia Aberdeen Art, LLC, a creative venture she established with her husband, Jonathan, combining their professional expertise in finance, accounting, and contract management. While her corporate background ensures her shrewdness in business, Alicia is the creative engine of the company—an accomplished artist and an inspiring educator. Born in Trinidad, Alicia moved to New York City in 2002, leaving behind a corporate career to pursue her artistic passions in 2009. Starting with an internship at The Brownstone in Harlem, she began to immerse herself in the art world, honing her business acumen while nurturing her creative talents. Alicia later worked at a Cisco Partner, where she served in management for five years, all while continuing her artistic journey. Her first public exhibit took place in 2005 at the Trinidad and Tobago Consulate in New York City, where she was the sole female artist featured among six Caribbean creatives. The positive reception of her work led to numerous commissions, including her first major piece, "De Dance," a three-panel artwork inspired by Ernie Barnes' "Sugar Shack," tailored specifically to a client's vision. Mrs. Aberdeen-Jones' artistic style is immensely versatile, embracing various media—from 2D animation and special effects to painting and mixed media. She stands out not only as an artist but also as an experimental storyteller, fearlessly pushing the boundaries of expression, which even extends to voice acting. Over the years, Alicia has enjoyed several exhibitions, including her powerful portrait, "Nina Speaks," which honors the legendary Nina Simone. This 24-carat gold-fused piece was featured in "The Nina Simone Experience" in Atlanta and caught the attention of Simone's daughter, Lisa ‘Simone' Kelly, earning her the YGB [Young Black and Gifted] Award. A devoted mother, Mrs. Aberdeen-Jones welcomed her daughter, Zoe, in 2011, shortly after earning her Bachelor's Degree in Media Arts and Animation. She began teaching art at a Catholic school and continued to build her portfolio, frequently showcasing her work across galleries and events in New York. Notable moments in her career include being a featured artist at the Van de Plas Gallery in 2018 and hosting various paint nights throughout the year. Her first solo show, "Paintings In The Garden," debuted in September 2019 and celebrated its successful sixth installment in December 2024, garnering a Proclamation from NY Senator Kevin S. Parker, Chairman of Committee on Energy and Telecommunications, in recognition of her contributions. Her passion lies in helping seniors and homeless people, and to that her advocacy is for the following organizations: Coalition For The Homeless-NYC + Serenity Empowerment Rehab Center for Women in Trinidad. For more information on Alicia Aberdeen, listen to our AFTERSHOW chat -Inside The Call at: https://www.onthecallpodcast/insidethe call For more on Alicia's art, visit: https://aliciaaberdeenart.com/ and connect with her on social media at: Facebook: Alicia Aberdeen

Silence the fears holding you back from launching your podcast as Corine La Font shares her real talk on overcoming doubt, building confidence, and taking creative control over your show. She unpacks hard-earned tips to help your podcast rise above the noise and truly connect with listeners. Stick around to learn how small, consistent actions can turn your podcasting dreams into reality. WHAT TO LISTEN FOR Why you need to harness the power of podcast analytics Common podcasting fears and how to overcome them The value of self-acceptance in podcasting How to create magnetic episode titles  Effective cover art tips every podcaster should try RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONED Grab Corine La Font's free eBook course, How to Build a Powerful Podcasting Platform! With 138 pages, 10 modules, and 40 lessons, you'll learn how to create, grow, and monetize your show step-by-step. Download it now at https://bit.ly/4bv0FTE!   ABOUT CORINE LA FONT Corine La Font is a Trinidad and Tobago-born public relations and communications consultant, speaker, podcaster, author, and publisher. After earning her degree in Human Resource Development from the University of the West Indies, she spent over two decades in Jamaica honing her craft, writing, editing, and marketing books, e-media, and audio productions for a diverse range of clients. Now back on home soil, Corine leverages her island heritage and global experience to help individuals and organizations discover their authentic voice, craft compelling narratives, and communicate with impact across traditional and digital platforms. CONNECT WITH CORINE Website: Beyond The Lines Learning Podcast: BetweenTheLines | Apple Podcasts and Spotify Facebook: Corine LaFont Linkedin: Corine La Font Instagram: @corinelaf TikTok: @betweenthelinespodcast X - @CorineFont CONNECT WITH US If you are interested in getting on our show, email us at team@growyourshow.com. Thinking about creating and growing your own podcast but not sure where to start? Click here and Schedule a call with Adam A. Adams! We also have free courses for you on everything you need to know about starting a great podcast! Check out our first six episodes through the links below! Identify Your Avatar - Free Course 1/6 What To Do BEFORE You Launch Your Podcast - Free Course 2/6 How To Launch A TOP Show - Free Course 3/6 Best Marketing And Growth Strategies - Free Course 4/6 How To Monetize Your Podcast - Free Course 5/6  Top 22 Pitfalls On Starting Your Own Podcast - Free Course 6/6 Subscribe so you don't miss out on great content and if you love the show, leave an honest rating and review here!   

This year's Passover 2025 Resurrection Day service was nothing short of historic! With an overwhelming turnout, the ministry opened not one, but two overflow rooms to accommodate the crowd. Hebrews from across the globe — including Trinidad, Barbados, and Ethiopia — gathered to honor this holy convocation. In this powerful message, Bishop Omar delivers a dynamic word from the Book of Jasher, diving deep into the story of Rebekah and the revelation of the two nations within her.Tune in and experience the move of God that marked this unforgettable celebration of life, resurrection, and covenant.

Send us a textIn this unforgettable episode, we sit  with the legendary David Michael Rudder—poet, prophet, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from Trinidad & Tobago. Rudder speaks openly about his journey through music, from the early days with Charlie's Roots to his solo classics that became anthems for the Caribbean spirit.He shares deeply personal reflections on living with polio since childhood, his recent Parkinson's diagnosis, and how he continues to push forward with courage and grace. Rudder also talks about bridging the generational gap, why connecting with today's youth matters to him, and the enduring power of calypso to tell our stories and shape our future.It's a rare, moving, and inspiring conversation with a national treasure.

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Un diggeur passionné des Caraïbes talonné par un poète anglo-trinidadien qui slame la mémoire des afro-descendants. Emile Omar est notre 1er invité pour présenter le 3e volume de la série Disques Debs International Mizik Maladi (Strut Record 2025). Une compilation concoctée par Emile Omar et Hugo Mendez.Strut présente avec enthousiasme le troisième volume tant attendu de la série Disques Debs International, explorant plus en profondeur les archives de l'un des plus grands labels franco-caribéens, Disques Debs, basé en Guadeloupe. Fondé par le visionnaire Henri Debs à la fin des années 1950, le label et son studio ont fonctionné pendant plus de 50 ans, produisant plus de 300 singles 7” et 200 albums, faisant de Disques Debs un pilier de l'histoire musicale caribéenne.Au début des années 1980, Henri Debs s'était déjà imposé comme un producteur prolifique, avec un catalogue de sorties inégalé en Guadeloupe et en Martinique. Parti d'un simple magnétophone deux pistes installé à l'arrière d'une boutique de vêtements, Disques Debs s'est transformé en une véritable institution, avec un studio ultramoderne en plein cœur de Pointe-à-Pitre, des magasins de disques et d'instruments de musique en Guadeloupe, en Martinique et à Paris, une discothèque au Gosier, ainsi que des accords de distribution internationale en Europe, aux États-Unis et en Amérique du Sud.Disques Debs a joué un rôle essentiel dans l'évolution de la musique caribéenne moderne, créant un pont entre les genres traditionnels comme la biguine et le gwoka et les styles contemporains comme le cadence, le compas et le zouk. Ce dernier est devenu un phénomène mondial dans les années 1980 grâce à des groupes emblématiques comme Kassav' et Zouk Machine. Durant cette période, le label a soutenu une nouvelle génération d'artistes tout en continuant à collaborer avec des figures légendaires des décennies précédentes.Le volume 3 de cette série, compilé par Emile Omar et Hugo Mendez, met en lumière l'une des périodes les plus dynamiques et influentes du label, alors qu'il étendait son rayonnement international dans les années 1980. À travers deux vinyles, cette sortie propose une sélection soigneusement choisie de morceaux issus de l'univers Disques Debs, mettant en avant à la fois de jeunes talents et des artistes confirmés qui ont marqué cette époque.Cette collection célèbre non seulement l'héritage inégalé d'Henri Debs, mais offre également un instantané de l'âge d'or de la musique caribéenne, confirmant Disques Debs comme une véritable institution culturelle.► Titres joués- Christian Yéyé – Misyé Zanndo- Horizon – Neg Mawon- Alex Rosa – L'Appel des champions- Max et Henri – Sé Pou Demen► Album Mizik Maladi, l'âge d'or des Disques Debs International (Strut Record 2025)Bandcamp Volume 1 Bandcamp Volume 2 Cadence Revolution Bandcamp Volume 3 Mizik MaladiÀ écouter aussiSpéciale Disques Debs international avec Émile Omar Notre 2nd invité est Anthony Joseph pour la sortie de l'album Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back.L'origine africaine des OVNI, George Clinton en personne, n'aurait pas désavoué ce concept afro-futuriste dont Anthony Joseph avait fait le sujet de The African Origins Of Ufo's, sa nouvelle écrite il y a bientôt vingt ans. Durant ce laps de temps, les albums du chanteur-poète de Trinidad se sont succédé, mais l'idée ne s'est pas évaporée. Après un travail de réflexion et de recherches artistiques avec le musicien-producteur Dave Okumu, il est même devenu l'axe de rotation de son nouvel album. Base des premiers titres élaborés en duo, la nouvelle est ensuite devenue la rampe de lancement de Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back Vol 1 & 2. D'une aventure si dense qu'il a fallu la scinder en deux parties. Après avoir solidement assuré la connexion musicale de toute la diaspora caribéenne sur ses précédents albums, Anthony Joseph s'engage dans une fresque musicale aussi ambitieuse que fascinante : l'exploration de toutes ces strates qui constituent la longue et tumultueuse histoire de la musique noire. Ces couches créatives qui se sont superposées et additionnées, la nouvelle se nourrissant de la précédente pour, sans le savoir, préparer l'arrivée de la suivante. Cet immense puzzle où, reliées par une forte conscience politique, les différentes pièces ont noirci les portées de leurs notes les plus intenses. Sculpté dans la cire des œuvres si impérissables qu'elles ont rendu stériles toutes les tentatives d'altération des décennies qui se sont accumulées. Forme, fond, portée révolutionnaire, tout est resté intact. Y compris l'esprit de tous ces musiciens qui ne se sont exprimés que par la voix de leur instrument, la puissance de leur groove, la radicalité de leur démarche artistique.Funk, P-Funk, soul, dub, free-jazz, jazz, afrobeat, blues, confrontant leurs deux visions musicales pour n'en former plus qu'une, c'est en binôme éclairé par les phares de leur créativité qu'Anthony Joseph et Dave Okumu ont façonné un afro-futurisme à l'esthétique mouvante et sans limites d'expansion. Stabilisée par cette volonté de raviver toutes les racines, l'exploration se conjugue à celle qui mène aux patronymes perdus. Ceux qui, entre le voyage depuis l'Afrique vers l'Amérique, se sont évaporés dans les flots de l'Atlantique et le claquement des fouets. Ceux dont ont été dépossédés les déracinés de force qui ont dû endosser celui du maître. Les peaux des batteries, le bois des baguettes et celui des percussions, le nylon de cordes, les métaux des saxophones et les trompettes, tout ce qui constitue l'arche organique dans laquelle ont embarqué les héros de la musique noire, révèle au moment du décollage un tableau de bord à l'électronique sophistiquée. Renforcer, voire supplanter certaines fonctions peut s'avérer utile tant la destination est lointaine. Elle est à des années-lumière d'ici. La rejoindre impose de connecter le présent avec le passé pour pouvoir l'emmener dans le futur. Dans l'afro futur. Là où, après avoir remonté la rivière, tous auront récupéré leurs noms et se seront réappropriés un pan de leur histoire.► Titres joués extraits de l'album- Satellite- Tony- Black History- Churches of Sound► Album Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness 2025)Site – Bandcamp – YouTube 

Un diggeur passionné des Caraïbes talonné par un poète anglo-trinidadien qui slame la mémoire des afro-descendants. Emile Omar est notre 1er invité pour présenter le 3e volume de la série Disques Debs International Mizik Maladi (Strut Record 2025). Une compilation concoctée par Emile Omar et Hugo Mendez.Strut présente avec enthousiasme le troisième volume tant attendu de la série Disques Debs International, explorant plus en profondeur les archives de l'un des plus grands labels franco-caribéens, Disques Debs, basé en Guadeloupe. Fondé par le visionnaire Henri Debs à la fin des années 1950, le label et son studio ont fonctionné pendant plus de 50 ans, produisant plus de 300 singles 7” et 200 albums, faisant de Disques Debs un pilier de l'histoire musicale caribéenne.Au début des années 1980, Henri Debs s'était déjà imposé comme un producteur prolifique, avec un catalogue de sorties inégalé en Guadeloupe et en Martinique. Parti d'un simple magnétophone deux pistes installé à l'arrière d'une boutique de vêtements, Disques Debs s'est transformé en une véritable institution, avec un studio ultramoderne en plein cœur de Pointe-à-Pitre, des magasins de disques et d'instruments de musique en Guadeloupe, en Martinique et à Paris, une discothèque au Gosier, ainsi que des accords de distribution internationale en Europe, aux États-Unis et en Amérique du Sud.Disques Debs a joué un rôle essentiel dans l'évolution de la musique caribéenne moderne, créant un pont entre les genres traditionnels comme la biguine et le gwoka et les styles contemporains comme le cadence, le compas et le zouk. Ce dernier est devenu un phénomène mondial dans les années 1980 grâce à des groupes emblématiques comme Kassav' et Zouk Machine. Durant cette période, le label a soutenu une nouvelle génération d'artistes tout en continuant à collaborer avec des figures légendaires des décennies précédentes.Le volume 3 de cette série, compilé par Emile Omar et Hugo Mendez, met en lumière l'une des périodes les plus dynamiques et influentes du label, alors qu'il étendait son rayonnement international dans les années 1980. À travers deux vinyles, cette sortie propose une sélection soigneusement choisie de morceaux issus de l'univers Disques Debs, mettant en avant à la fois de jeunes talents et des artistes confirmés qui ont marqué cette époque.Cette collection célèbre non seulement l'héritage inégalé d'Henri Debs, mais offre également un instantané de l'âge d'or de la musique caribéenne, confirmant Disques Debs comme une véritable institution culturelle.► Titres joués- Christian Yéyé – Misyé Zanndo- Horizon – Neg Mawon- Alex Rosa – L'Appel des champions- Max et Henri – Sé Pou Demen► Album Mizik Maladi, l'âge d'or des Disques Debs International (Strut Record 2025)Bandcamp Volume 1 Bandcamp Volume 2 Cadence Revolution Bandcamp Volume 3 Mizik MaladiÀ écouter aussiSpéciale Disques Debs international avec Émile Omar Notre 2nd invité est Anthony Joseph pour la sortie de l'album Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back.L'origine africaine des OVNI, George Clinton en personne, n'aurait pas désavoué ce concept afro-futuriste dont Anthony Joseph avait fait le sujet de The African Origins Of Ufo's, sa nouvelle écrite il y a bientôt vingt ans. Durant ce laps de temps, les albums du chanteur-poète de Trinidad se sont succédé, mais l'idée ne s'est pas évaporée. Après un travail de réflexion et de recherches artistiques avec le musicien-producteur Dave Okumu, il est même devenu l'axe de rotation de son nouvel album. Base des premiers titres élaborés en duo, la nouvelle est ensuite devenue la rampe de lancement de Rowing Up River To Get Our Names Back Vol 1 & 2. D'une aventure si dense qu'il a fallu la scinder en deux parties. Après avoir solidement assuré la connexion musicale de toute la diaspora caribéenne sur ses précédents albums, Anthony Joseph s'engage dans une fresque musicale aussi ambitieuse que fascinante : l'exploration de toutes ces strates qui constituent la longue et tumultueuse histoire de la musique noire. Ces couches créatives qui se sont superposées et additionnées, la nouvelle se nourrissant de la précédente pour, sans le savoir, préparer l'arrivée de la suivante. Cet immense puzzle où, reliées par une forte conscience politique, les différentes pièces ont noirci les portées de leurs notes les plus intenses. Sculpté dans la cire des œuvres si impérissables qu'elles ont rendu stériles toutes les tentatives d'altération des décennies qui se sont accumulées. Forme, fond, portée révolutionnaire, tout est resté intact. Y compris l'esprit de tous ces musiciens qui ne se sont exprimés que par la voix de leur instrument, la puissance de leur groove, la radicalité de leur démarche artistique.Funk, P-Funk, soul, dub, free-jazz, jazz, afrobeat, blues, confrontant leurs deux visions musicales pour n'en former plus qu'une, c'est en binôme éclairé par les phares de leur créativité qu'Anthony Joseph et Dave Okumu ont façonné un afro-futurisme à l'esthétique mouvante et sans limites d'expansion. Stabilisée par cette volonté de raviver toutes les racines, l'exploration se conjugue à celle qui mène aux patronymes perdus. Ceux qui, entre le voyage depuis l'Afrique vers l'Amérique, se sont évaporés dans les flots de l'Atlantique et le claquement des fouets. Ceux dont ont été dépossédés les déracinés de force qui ont dû endosser celui du maître. Les peaux des batteries, le bois des baguettes et celui des percussions, le nylon de cordes, les métaux des saxophones et les trompettes, tout ce qui constitue l'arche organique dans laquelle ont embarqué les héros de la musique noire, révèle au moment du décollage un tableau de bord à l'électronique sophistiquée. Renforcer, voire supplanter certaines fonctions peut s'avérer utile tant la destination est lointaine. Elle est à des années-lumière d'ici. La rejoindre impose de connecter le présent avec le passé pour pouvoir l'emmener dans le futur. Dans l'afro futur. Là où, après avoir remonté la rivière, tous auront récupéré leurs noms et se seront réappropriés un pan de leur histoire.► Titres joués extraits de l'album- Satellite- Tony- Black History- Churches of Sound► Album Rowing up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness 2025)Site – Bandcamp – YouTube 

#NEWWORLDREPORT: TOBAGO & TRINIDAD ELECT. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kamala Harris used a high-profile speech Wednesday to sharply criticize Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK, Jr doesn't believe in the cornerstone of health science, Germ Theory, so he shut down the labs researching infectious diseases like Ebola; budget airline Avelo faces backlash for signing up to fly deportation flights for ICE; and, voting machine company Smartmatic revealed new death threats from Fox viewers over their defamation suit against the lying propaganda shop.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Japan's imperial palace fired an employee for stealing cash from the household for over a year; and, the former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago swept the polls to take power again.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

How One Caribbean Biologist is Shaping the Future of Conservation From Cambridge to the Tropics.In this episode of the Conservation Careers Podcast, we speak with Dr Howard Nelson—Lecturer in Conservation Leadership at Fauna & Flora International and the University of Cambridge.Howard brings over 30 years of experience across the Caribbean and the UK, working in government, NGOs, and academia. We dive into his work teaching the next generation of conservation professionals and discuss his journey from managing jaguar habitat in Trinidad to shaping conservation policy and leadership in Cambridge.Topics covered:What is conservation leadership?Lessons from 30+ years in field ecology and policyThe science-policy interface in small island statesAdvice for career switchers and aspiring conservationistsThe importance of communication and diversity in conservation#ConservationLeadership #HowardNelson #FaunaAndFlora #ConservationCareers #WildlifeBiologist #GlobalSouthVoices #CambridgeUniversityLinkshttps://www.cl.geog.cam.ac.uk/

Today, we make a broad but apt, I think, illustration from John 1:35-51. We see through this passage a simple conversation with Jesus and then perplexing words from The Word of God, Jesus. Finally, we see an enigmatic revelation from our Savior. Before we get to the content, we highlight, almost all (spoilers) the island nations in which we have listeners! Thank You, treasured ones (Psalm 83:3), from the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Jamaica, Japan, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Puerto Rico. The Lord has blessed us, knowing you are there. Simple: "Where are you staying?" John 1:38Perplexing: "He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter)." John 1:42Enigmatic: "You shall see greater things than these." John 1:50Our So What?We often don't put ourselves in the shoes of the disciples or Biblical characters; we should; even the fiery Elijah James tells us is a man with a nature like ours, so all the Biblical characters, we begin simply, basically, we often find the word of God and always the character of God inexplicably in human terms, but when we pursue Him, He opens our eyes, and then we pray for knowledge and wisdom and discernment.Pray, Pray, Pray, family of the Most High in faith continually. Brethren, let us pray for one another to overcome the weakness of the flesh through prayer. ""What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."" Robert Murray M'CheyneeDonation link:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G9JGGR5W97D64Or go to www.freerangepreacheronprayer.com and use the Donations tab.Assistant Editor: Seven Jefferson Gossard.www.freerangepreacheronprayer.comfreerangeprayer@gmail.comFacebook - Free Range Preacher MinistriesInstagram: freerangeministriesAll our Scripture quotes are drawn from the NASB 1977 edition.For access to the Voice Over services of Richard Durrington, please visit RichardDurrington.com or email him at Durringtonr@gmail.comOur podcast art was designed by @sammmmmmmmm23 InstagramSeason 007Episode 038

En el programa de hoy, Jason Frenn responde a laspreguntas de la audencia: 1-888 727-84241.  Hombre tímido rechazado por mujer en iglesia. No sabe si irse o quedarse de la iglesia.2. Dificultad en entender la trinidad. 3. Líder de iglesia se enamoró de otro líder.4. Problemas familiares. Como establecer núcleo familiar.5. Como mantenerse firme en la fe y sin juzgar a otros.6. Como aportar a la obra de Dios en mayor de edad y sin fuerzas.7.  Apartado de las cosas de Dios y teniendo sueños.8.  Mejor manera para declararse a una hermana de la iglesia.

Today, Clancy speaks with Sian Cuffy Young, Founder and CEO of Siel Environmental Services Limited. She is an award-winning waste management educator, consultant, and social entrepreneur. You won't want to miss their discussion about the issue of food waste in Trinidad and Tobago, the significance of culture in food waste, and how to create a food system that will reduce food waste. She also talked about the definition of food dignity from the Caribbean perspective. Listen and enjoy the show!

Back with a guitar heavy episode! Wizardry from Gabor Szabo, Djelimady Tounkara, Donna Grantis, & Syran Mbenza. New music from Kuunatic, the Billy Hart Quartet, rocking grooves from 1970s Zimbabwe, two Soca classics from Trinidad, plus lots more!

Jerome Teelucksingh is one of the leading men's rights activists. He is a senior lecturer at The University of the West Indies in Trinidad & Tobago (in the Caribbean). Jerome has published articles and spoken at academic conferences on masculinity, fatherhood and gender relations.  In 1999, he initiated International Men's Day on 19 November in Trinidad and Tobago. Also, he would later begin the observance of World Day of the Boy Child on 16 May and The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Men and Boys on 31 January. In 2022.Jerome's e-mail: j_teelucksingh@yahoo.comSupport the show

Send us a textIn this episode of The Corie Sheppard Podcast, I reason with the one and only Ozy Merrique — entertainer, producer, author, and visual artist whose fingerprints are all over Trinidad and Tobago's creative landscape. Ozy takes us back to his early start on Party Time, shares the hilarious story of how he borrowed (and somehow never returned) David Rudder's classic 1986 Calypso Monarch outfit, and reflects on building spaces like Jam in the Junction, the weekly showcase that gave countless local artistes a stage before they had one.We also dive into his life as a published author and his work as a painter and visual artist, exploring how his creative expression evolved beyond the stage and into new mediums.Of course, no lime with Ozy would be complete without some laughs — including the unforgettable saga of Suck Tongue Sabrina that had the whole set nearly falling off their chairs!From the early hustle to a lifetime of artistic contribution, Ozy's journey is a reminder that real creativity never stays in one lane.Help keep Jam in D Junction alive — click the link below to support Ozy's GoFundMehttps://fundmetnt.com/campaign/raize-a-light-support-local-talent-with-jam-in-de-junction-season-3-beyond

P. Federico (Guatemala)Dios es siempre nuevo. Cuando recibimos al Espíritu Santo en nuestra alma volvemos a nacer. Siempre que acudimos a Él somos rejuvenecidos. Encuéntrale y mantén amistad con la Tercera Persona de la Santísima Trinidad y no te andes con simple parámetros humanos.[Ver Meditación Escrita] https://www.hablarconjesus.com/meditacion_escrita/fuente-de-eterna-juventud/

Hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. Yet, its depth and meaning begin to fade when faced with the sorrows of the past, the realities of the present, and the uncertainties of the future.In all these, where do we anchor our hope? Let us discover this unshakeable hope that only Christ can truly offer, regardless of the times and seasons.

Hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. Yet, its depth and meaning begin to fade when faced with the sorrows of the past, the realities of the present, and the uncertainties of the future.In all these, where do we anchor our hope? Let us discover this unshakeable hope that only Christ can truly offer, regardless of the times and seasons.

Zelina Vega is WWE superstar that is defying all the odds and breaking barriers despite her size. In the newest "Casual Conversations with The Classic'' episode, the Wrestling Classic Justin catches up with Vega where they discuss representing Puerto Rico, becoming the first Queen of the Ring, teaming with Carmella, Rey Mysterio, The Rock, the LWO, Black Arts Gym, ZelVJandCharlieGirl and more!Social Handles Zelina Vega - @zelinavegawwe (IG & X)My Official Website + Demo Reel - https://www.justindhillon.comInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thewrestlingclassic/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thewrestlingclassic X - https://x.com/twcworldwide Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheWrestlingClassic/ Articles - https://www.one37pm.com/author/justin-dhillon Limited Edition TWC Tee https://headquartersclothing.com/products/headquarters-x-the-wrestling-classic-logo-tee?_pos=1&_psq=wrestlinhg&_ss=e&_v=1.0 500 Level https://www.500level.com/Join the Discord Community https://linktr.ee/thewrestlingclassicAll Episodes are on "The Wrestling Classic" Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQOYraeFlX-xd8f3adQtTwBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/twc-show--4417554/support.

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel interviewed the CEO & Co-Founder of ShotTracker, Davyeon Ross.Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Ross came to the United States on a basketball scholarship to Benedictine College, where he was a four-year letterman and earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with minors in business and mathematics. He later completed his MBA at MidAmerica Nazarene University.Ross is best known as the co-founder and President of DDSports, the company behind ShotTracker—a groundbreaking sensor-based analytics platform that delivers real-time basketball statistics. ShotTracker has been adopted by major universities and professional organizations, transforming how coaches, players, and fans engage with the game. Under his leadership, ShotTracker secured high-profile partnerships, including with the Big 12 Conference, ESPN, Verizon, and Evertz.Before ShotTracker, Ross founded AthletixNation, a multimedia sports content platform, and later Digital Sports Ventures, which was acquired by Digital Broadcasting Group. His entrepreneurial journey has been marked by successful exits and recognition, including being named to Ingram's Magazine's “20 in their Twenties” and “40 under 40” lists.Beyond his ventures, Ross is deeply committed to fostering innovation and equity. He leads the Coalition Venture Studio, an initiative featured by Forbes, aimed at closing the venture capital gap for Black entrepreneurs by building strategic partnerships with VCs, corporations, and brands. He also serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Keystone Innovation District, Benedictine College, and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, working to connect diverse communities and drive inclusive economic growth.Ross's career exemplifies a passion for technology, sports, and community impact, making him a prominent figure in both the Kansas City entrepreneurial landscape and the broader sports-tech industry.Davyeon Ross:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davyeonross/X: https://x.com/davyeonrossInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davyeonross/ShotTracker: https://shottracker.com/

SEC Unfiltered's Cole Thompson and Dave Shumate talk Ole Miss' addition of Division II All-Amercian QB Trinidad Chambliss from Ferris State via the transfer portal.What does he add to the Rebels' offense this fall? Can he compete for QB1 reps? ⬇️ Support SECU ⬇️FANDUELVisit FanDuel.com/SECU to join today and get started with $300 dollars in bonus bets when you win your first $5 dollar bet!Subscribe to SEC Unfiltered, the best SEC podcast on the internet: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sec-unfiltered/id1441899352Website: https://www.secunfiltered.com/X: ​https://twitter.com/SECUnfilteredInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/secunfiitered/Facebook: ​https://www.facebook.com/SECUnfiIteredPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/sec-unfiltered/id1441899352Let's get it!Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800) 327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York.

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse kicked off today's show breaking down the CONCACAF Gold Cup draw. The U.S. Men's National Team will face Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and Saudi Arabia in the group stage. The guys shared their power rankings and where they think the USMNT will stack up against the competition. This weekend abroad, Americans were scoring all over Europe. Christian Pulisic bagged his 10th assist of the season off a corner. Will he be able to transfer this service to the national team? Malik Tillman, Cameron Carter-Vickers, and Chris Richards all scored spectacular goals for respective clubs. Champions League quarterfinals also roll on this week, Real Madrid and Dortmund have big deficits to overcome. Back stateside, Brian White went off with four goals in Vancouver's dominant performance. He became the Whitecaps first player in club history to record 50 regular season goals. (5:32) In #AskAlexi the duo answered questions on Noah Allen selecting to play for Greece over the United States, and MLS deferring its calendar change. Alexi recapped his visit to TCU's Film, Television, and Digital Media department to wrap the show. (46:58) CONCACAF Gold Cup draw & power rankings (5:32) USMNT Abroad (16:53) Champions League preview (34:57) MLS recap: Brian White scores FOUR (41:49) #AskAlexi: MLS calendar change (46:58) One for the Road (56:20) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From dreaming of NASCAR to navigating Northern Virginia's high-stakes real estate market, Brandon Lowkaran brings speed, smarts, and sincerity to every transaction. Listen in as he talks about market myths, money mindset, and how small shifts can lead to big moves in real estate. And just when you think it's all financial wisdom and buyer tips, wait until you hear about the buyer, the long-close nightmare, and the self-sabotage that nearly derailed it all!   Key takeaways to listen for Is Northern Virginia real estate really crashing or is that just internet noise? Why first-time buyers suddenly have more leverage than they've had in years Down payment assistance programs most buyers don't even know exist How Brandon's construction background gives his clients a serious advantage What most high earners still get wrong about money and how to avoid it   Resources mentioned in this episode CASHFLOW® Classic—How Fast Can You Become A Millionaire? VA Home Loans HOME Plus Program   Amazon books: Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Paperback   About Brandon LowkaranBorn and raised in Trinidad, Brandon began his career drafting architecture, then transitioned to project management and real estate consulting. Today, he raises capital for his investment fund using the same strategies he teaches. With hands-on construction and real estate experience, Brandon specializes in finding hidden deals and helping others build wealth. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Cecelia, and their children, Bryant and Axel, and enjoys motorcycles and outdoor family time.   Connect with Brandon LinkedIn: Brandon Lowkaran Instagram: @thelowkarangroup Facebook: Profile for The Lowkaran Group TikTok: @brandonlowkaran YouTube: Real Estate Investing with Brandon Lowkaran Email: brandon@lowkarangroup.com Phone Number: 571-502-0782   Connect with Leigh Please subscribe to this podcast on your favorite podcast app at https://pod.link/1153262163, and never miss a beat from Leigh by visiting https://leighbrown.com. DM Leigh Brown on Instagram @ LeighThomasBrown.   Sponsors Prioritize your sleep! Transform your nights with Cozy Earth's luxuriously soft, temperature-regulating sleep essentials. Because when you sleep well, you live well.    Visit CozyEarth.com and use my exclusive code REALESTATE for 40% off best-selling sheets, towels, pajamas, and more. And if you get a post-purchase survey, let them know you heard about Cozy Earth right here.