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THERE ARE PEOPLE who still hail me, "Bitch's Brew!"

You would think I'd want to smack them. But it's complimentary, really; because they're telling me they remember me, they remember my column, I am still in their thoughts even after such a long time gone.

My first column was actually  Surfacing. Then came Bitch's Brew, later adapted to The Brew. In between there were Sex and the Trini and Come Good (both sex-sex -- as opposed to sex-gender -- columns).


  [For past newspaper work, link to: The Jhaye-Q Brew Archive]   


My topics? My world. My nation. My people. Ethnicity, relationship, education, death, creativity, entertainment, culture, ambition, sex, love and rock and roll. Essentially: everything. I mean, what's not worth writing about to someone who is passionate about stories, about living, about her fellow human?

With Trinbago Come Good, the first blog I ever created, I'm telling as much of the world that opts to listen about how true Trini passionaTTe I am about all things quinTessenTially Trinidad and Tobago. 

I love my country. I know my country. It isn't beautiful all the time, but it is mine, no matter what. I want people all over the world, Trinbagonians included (and we are all over the world) to love my country, to know my country now, even when it is not beautiful all the time.



  MY  MISSION  


I will share all I can, holding on to the hope that this will touch the change-agent residing in every soul and make people, especially my Trini people, want to do better, be more, grow great.

I invite you to hit the link, and welcome to Trinbago Come Good


I play a game called Flag-spotting. I love it when my 
people "fly" our flag proudly. All photos by Jhaye-Q Baptiste


Those who abuse power only think they know what power is



THIS BLOG's purpose is CONNECTIVITY. 

It is a portal to all the other blogs I’ve created (or will have a hand in helping create, with my fellow Society of United Literature storytellers: my all around good guys). It clearly is a work, not only in progress, but just begun.

I took up blogging because ... well, you’ll find out when you actually get into my blogs (which sounds a little naughty, now that I read it back). Forgive my seeming irreverence; it’s just excitement filling me with glee.

The truth of it: I love being productive.

Thing is, it was a lot easier for me to work my a** off while in the Trinidad and Tobago Media limelight than as a “self-starter.” Not because of money (I wasn’t that well paid) or fame (fickle-fingered for sure), but because there’s something that drives me harder when I’m employed by another. 

Call it the brainwash of feeling like you’re being done a favour when someone accepts to underpay you and exploit you for your very specialised skills, inimitable talents and multiplicity of abilities.

Listen, I’m making good on my promise to those fans who, to this day – ten years after my five-year talk show, fifteen years after my five-year column, and however many years after all my previous Media presence – say they miss me and wish to see me back in the swing of things.

I want this, too.


What was once so useful ... now discarded and ignored











Better led than misled


True productivity must be married to worthy purpose. The local Media arena today appears to have lost sight of that. As an entity it can see farther than ever before; yet its perspective has narrowed: like telescopic tunnel-vision.

Further, it fosters the same smallness of seeing in its market; effectively creating less liberal-minded, thus more easily duped, herd-minded groups, which frown on individual innovation that could better the nation for everybody.


The most burning question to be posed when considering the formation of any entity that will hold sway over the choices people make must ever be: Where will it lead us?

If the answer is: To the progress and expansion of human capacity, that redounds to the benefit of our world, by calling on each of us to continuously try to turn wrongs into rights, then all the negatives of “Media socialisation” should fall away, and only positives will be upheld.

Good Media uplifts and advances a people. Good people try to, 

“Do good. Do only good. Do good for others.” – Buddhist tenet



  My Mission  

I am committed to Making Multi-Media Motivation.

I am going to make Open Media in Trinidad and Tobago. 

I will manifest real word power.

What can I write here that will convince you? This much only: By my blogworQs you shall know me.

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Remembering roving "reporting":
going out into the world for the story



















All photos by Jhaye-Q Baptiste



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