happy new year

New year, new decade. From all of us here at MEP, a very fruitful, prosperous and productive 2010 to all our clients, customers, partners, associates, contributors, suppliers, friends, readers, sympathisers, supporters, even our enemies if we have any. How much fruit, prosperity or productivity we shall all enjoy remains to be seen, given the state of the world economy; but we can wish, all the same.

Our office here in Port of Spain reopened on Monday and we're busy preparing this year's publication programme. There's an early Carnival ahead (February 15-16), immediately preceded by St Valentine's Day, promising a season of romantic ecstasy (or ecstatic romance). Right after Carnival comes a controversial (and wildly expensive) visit from from Beyoncé, so it looks like a costly couple of months for Trinidadians.

This year is going to be special for MEP, being our twentieth year in business. The company was formed at the end of 1990, so we have an anniversary coming up. But that's another story.