It seems like we have another island level issue with Internet access here in Trinidad and Tobago – at least in Trinidad, though I somehow doubt the Caribbean Sea ‘firewall’ has excluded them from the issue.

This is not to say that I have had issues with my internet access provider that often. I honestly have been quite surprised at how well things have worked over the years with Amplia, so I’m not going to throw them under the bus over this.

This is the 2nd issue that impacted internet access in the last 10 days, and an intelligent reader might ask how I’m writing this.

I’m a bit curious myself, really, but I’m at a Starbucks not far from my home tapping away on the Internet, and I suspect that they have a provider that may not be directly impacted.

It makes me wonder if their provider is owned by any state-run enterprise, actually, because it seems anything even tangentially linked to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago is susceptible to falling trees, flooding, and other acts of God, in the land where it is said, “God is a Trini”.

How oddly appropriate. I wonder how people hold the two in their minds. And it’s not that I’m picking on Internet access, but lately it seems government owned or related service providers for electricity, water and internet access believe in only one form of redundancy – allowing the infrastructure to fail for lack of planning. Maybe these are just symptoms of a deeper disease.

Anyway, the spotty internet access has kept me from publishing a few things. We’ll see how long I can tolerate working here.