We're good to go in Trinidad-we have the infrastructure network but there's been some unfortunate delays.

Statistics we have been seeing state that the level of fixed and mobile penetration combined, is approximately 5.6 per cent of which approximately 3.4 per cent relates to mobile. Hence, there is major scope to increase this level of penetration, particularly with an official population of eight million plus and probably higher.

Our growth strategy for next year [2006] is built on the tremendous success and momentum developed during 2005.

It felt like one of those movies where a bunch of misfits, each gifted in his own way - one in explosives, another in disguise, another in forgery or karate- are thrown together to achieve a dangerous mission.

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.