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Ode to Bertram, The Ultimate Newspaperman! Share this post: I never asked Bertram what his real or full name was, but when I got the news Saturday morning that my favorite newspaper vendor had died, my heart simply dropped – meaning, it skipped a beat. Bertram Emmanuel The bearer of this bad news fellow VOICE columnist Carlton Ishmael knew Bertram was the only vendor I sourced all my newspapers from on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Perched ever-comfortably every ‘newspaper day’ in his wheelchair outside the entrance to Massey’s Waterfront outlet, he’d have his parcels of all four-weekend papers (VOICE, Star, Mirror and One Caribbean) wrapped and encircled in elastic bands with names appended, monthly clients (like me) simply picking-up our handed parcels on arrival and either engaging him in a brief chat, or simply collecting and moving on like clockwork. ....
Who the Dickens took the Peter out of Josie? February 23, 2021 Sponsored Chronicles Of A Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet I was invited by NTN to participate in ‘A Panel Discussion on Independence’ with Rick Wayne and Peter Josie. I don’t know why anyone would think I would not have accepted, but I did – and readily so. Why? First, it would have allowed me to say a few things about Independence that aren’t that well known but are documented parts of our history, in some cases understandably, in others simply because we naturally tend to brush aside uncomfortable aspects of our lives or parts of our history that we simply wish to forever forget. ....