My 2014 Year in Review

My Equal Treatment for Differently Abled People’s Facebook fan page crossed twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) on February 1, thirteen thousand (13,000) on March 3, fourteen thousand (14,000) on June 26, fifteen thousand (15,000) on November 21. I was part of a presentation on assistive technology at the University of Trinidad and Tobago Corinth Campus which I attended and enjoyed on May 12. I got my first paying job on July 9. I recorded what would be my first television interview on August 7. Part 1 and 2 of my first television interview were aired on September 7 and 14 respectively. It's time to close the door on a blessings filled 2014 and open the door to another blessed year...

I said.... Merry Christmas

This is the way I type

Did I Miss Something?

I looked at last night’s newscast hoping to see something that our Government did to celebrate the International Day of People with Disability but I saw nothing. Did I miss something? Did I fall asleep for 30 seconds during the newscast or did our Government ‘overlook’ the day? Please tell me that I fell asleep because I do not want to believe that our Government ‘overlooked’ disability awareness…

Trinidad and Tobago Prepared for Ebola???

I was looking at how prepared Barbados seems to be for the arrival of the Ebola virus then I remembered the head of our Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management talking about how prepared we are with something which looked like a fish net on his head.

Showing My Ability... Part 2 of 2

My 2014 - 2015 Budget Response

Increasing the disability grant from $1500 to $1800 per month is good but I would love to see our policy makers live on $1800 per month. I am not saying to give us more money, just to make more services accessible to us. National development Centre for the Differently Abled is to be commissioned before the end on 2014, I will be monitoring this. More 'special buses' are to come on stream. I hope they last this time. I am not harsh. I am just real... I will post more on my Equal Treatment For Differently Abled People facebook fan page.

Showing My Ability... Part 1 of 2

After Recording My First Television Interview

Marcia Henville and I after recording what would be my first television interview

Every Child Has a Part to Play

Every child has a part to play in our future. therefore, we as adults are responsible for our future. Let's start teaching our children to be good leaders!!!

We Are The Society

This week while looking at the news, I saw a father who said that his seven (7) year old daughter who lived with her mother was raped repeatedly for the past three (3) years. Wait, it gets worse... The father said that he reported it to the police when he first noticed changes in his daughter years ago and no serious action was taken until the other day. If all this is true, something is wrong with society and the Government CANNOT fix the society because WE ARE THE SOCIETY!!!!!

Homeless Moms

Three (3) women and their eight (8) children sought refuge at the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) head office in Port of Spain on Thursday. The HDC which is a Government agency and one of its roles is to provide AFFORDABLE housing to our citizens including the poor ones.

You Cannot Be Serious

Weeks ago, a grandfather forgot to drop off his 17 month old grandson at the babysitter on his way to work, the baby died and the grandfather was charged with manslaughter. Okay. LAST WEEK, an 18-month-old boy was rescued from the back seat of the car he was left by a 50-year-old man who went shopping. The windows of the car were up and the doors were locked. Officers from the Chaguanas Police Station were on patrol in the area when they were alerted by shoppers that the child was in the vehicle. He was crying and gasping for air, eyewitnesses said. Officers broke the back glass of the car to gain access to the child. You knew about the death of the 17 month old and still left the 18 month old in the car with the WINDOWS UP??? Seriously?

I said.... "I love myself"

Tyron Bishop's Movie by Alicia Jailall-Fortune

Ty's Slide

Let Them Grieve In Peace

I am tired of seeing persons in the media torturing mothers of dead babies by interviewing in the morgue in front of their child's body, just to see tears then the camera person zooms in for a better 'tears shot.' Let them grieve in peace without having to re-live it everytime it is broadcast.