"1992 alumnus Marrett Green has instructed tae kwon do, anchored news, and has
just written his second book."
-Kim Duckett, Algonquin Times staff

"Your mind is like an untrained monkey," says Marrett Green, who excludes the energy of a rare wild animal.

The 36-year old Jamaican is part author, part news anchor, tae kwon do instructor, small business owner, inventor, public relations agent, student and future Premier - hopeful, in no particular order - although lately he feels that writing is his true calling.

"I believe that everything happens for a reason." - says the Algonquin television broadcasting graduate. If his two books are any indication, then one would agree that he's on the right track.

Two years ago, Green co-authored Sugar and Spice and Everything Irie, a Jamaican cookbook he wrote with his mother, Veda Nugent.

"My mother is my inspiration," he says of the former Ottawa chef, restaranter and cooking instructor who catered to foreign embassies and government officials in the Capital.

His second, "House on the Canal", is a biography about love, laws and tradition in Egypt. The book has just been completed and awaiting publication.

If you haven't yet seen Green's name in print, you may have seen him on-screen.

After graduating from Algonquin in 1992, Green became a reporter for YTV's Rock-n-Talk. Shortly afterwards, he became a news anchor with the station. In 1993 he was offered a position in Vancouver, B.C. with Global, where he worked until 1998.

Following a compromising agreement, Green stopped pursuing the news, and began handing it out as a media relations officer with the Greater Vacnouver Regional District.

"I was just burnt out," he says.

It genuinely slips Greens mind that he was portrayed a news reporter in such films as Final Destination I&II, X2:X-Men United, Slapshot II, and the television versions of Medusa's Child and Murder at My Door.

"I'm not really an actor," he says, laughing.

Now Green is living in Vancouver, teaching tae kwon do and working toward his masters degree in mass communication while looking after his latest venture, Pet N' Apartments.

When Green was looking to relocate, he faced defiant landlords who'd been burned by irresponsible pet owners in the past.

His on-line company helps owners and their furry friends find animal-friendly apartments for rent, cutting down the waste of time that comes with rejection.

Green and his 160-pound Great Dane, Othello, are happily settled.

What does he have planned for the future?

"I'd like to be premier one day. Why not? Somebody gets to do it, why not me? Why not anybody?" he asks. "If you choose to achieve, you will achieve."