UTC International Suite of funds

UTC has launched their international suite of funds.
They are targeting mass, small investors with a minimum of US$100.

Since they are the only ones with Latin American exposure I thought I would try a little diversification. See if the $20 climbs to $25 in a year. It could also decrease to $15 if their international partner does badly.

Never gamble more than you can afford to lose.

Anyway I called and they confirmed they will change the money into US for me, but no longer open on Saturday. So I went down to Independence Square.

The place was so packed it was unbelievable. Then the person four ahead of me said that they had been waiting an hour.

Now GAM called me back and arranged on a Saturday appointment for me to come and sign up all the forms.

Even SavInvest (Bourse Securities) made opening the account quick and painless.

I really must withdraw my money and leave UTC for the plebs.

Guardian has the highest rate anyway at 7% on TT

Bourse, CMMB and GAM will meet US at 6%.

CMMB's way of calculation make them technically the highest yield.

UTC is d worse

The Oh die moment

There is usually a certain degree of banter expected of any good Trini.

And I usually give as good as I get.

Unfortunately, I didn't realise that the picong had gone too far until the other person walked out.

So much for Holiday cheer.

No Paolo No

This week on Skews, Paolo asked if we are willing to give up civil liberties for security.

My answer is No Paolo No.

Even as the helicopters hover overhead.

I am cynical, but as you said yourself Paolo, who else can organise "crime" on this scale. Then come with a simple solution

"They offered such a simple deal; give up control and we will restore order."

V for Vendetta

No one else has more to gain to create a situation that will give them the excuse to grant unlimited power.

I for one believe the rumours

Five Gifts I wish I could give

1. A book or list of entries by Guyana Gyal (willing to pay up to US$30 - same as TGIF by BC Pires, must have I wanna be a red suv)
2. A gift basket from Munerah's
   (I did try to get this but they didn't have any, They are better than Earthscents)
3. A photo coffee table book compiled by Bookmann (around US$30)
4. A discount card for a Movie Towne. (Will pay up to TT$125)
5. A water detection device
   (I know three people who got flooded this year, not available in TT as yet)

Education is about learning to think for yourself

I have finally reached Lexicon's sale.

There where many books, down to $1 that's TT.

An so the Manning administration has snuffed the life out of yet another thriving private enterprise.

In a country where 30% of the population is functionally illiterate. It is difficult to sustain a book business on pleasure readers alone.

So for Lexicon had the distributor rights for Longman international and their textbook range.

Then they introduced the textbook scheme to provide free textbooks to all school children both public and private.

On the face of this it may seem a good thing. The government is providing for its people. But they also standardised the textbooks to be used.

So teachers and schools are not allowed to choose their own textbooks.
You have to use what the government gives you.

So we have one sanctioned textbook, by an author who writes what they want children to be told, printed and published by their own private contractors.

And now that the businesses that provided an alternative learning and teaching resources, where will we go.

I applaud all those mothers who have decided to forego income and set up our own home schooling network.

Updates

Firstly congratulations to the Venezuelans.
You've got guts.

Secondly I watched RENT again over the weekend.
And the WYP people are just stupid.

Getting an HIV test does not tell me anything I do not already know.

One day I will die.

I may get sick or maybe it may explain why I get sick so often.

But it's really hard looking in the mirror and having no one else to hate for your disease but what you see.

And it's really hard to cope with your body betraying you in little ways.

So I don't want to know.

I have had a good life. If I make it to 40, it will surpass my wildest dreams.

Still what I really need is critical care tied to a pension fund and nobody offers such a plan, not for HIV.

Heck they won't even let me get life insurance,cuz I won't take the test, so I can't buy a house, not that I could afford a house at these prices, but hey it doesn't hurt to dream.

You see that's the thing about HIV. I am the best salesperson, or researcher. I mean I manage twenty three people. It's hard and I've had my bruises. But once you know and someone else finds out that this is fact. They don't see all that. They just see the disease.

525,600 minutes! 525,000 journeys to plan. 525,600 minutes -
how can you measure the life of a woman or man?

In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned, or the way that she died.

Season's of love, RENT.

That's all HIV is a way you die.

Let's talk about the way we live.

Thought on Lumumba

Africans deserve to develop a natural resistance to AIDS that is not effective on White people strains