Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.I am a Soca Warrior I say win or loose I am a fighter! I am a Soca Warrior I come tuh shine meh nationality brighter. Maximus Dan – Soca Warrior Up until this point. Up until we football make ah move, we had only one [...]
“I’m sorry, did you say you worked for the…?” An arched eyebrow, a quizzical look, a quick reappraisal of the dreadlocks, the accent (could she be American? perhaps Welsh?), the attitude, the general foreign-ness. “Oh! Well!” And so on, and such like. It’s not that I’m the only black person in the building, at these [...]
It wasn’t until I left Trinidad for much colder climes I discovered I was black. All my life I had been a so-called “red girl” – a racial hybrid with Indian, Caucasian, African and Chinese anscestors. Mixed, middle-class, prestigiously schooled and commensurately sheltered, I railed against the hyphenated identities adopted by Indo- or Afro- Trinbagonian [...]
To smelt or not to smelt, that is the question. As a nation, we have been fortunate to have such a vast array of resources at our fingertips, under our lands and seas. Oil is king, but an old king and Natural Gas his relatively reserved queen. Oil is an old king who knows that [...]
Trinidadian bloggers continue to impress, inspire, inform and occasionally irritate me. A gem I discovered today (while googling “doh cater”…) – The Modest Goddess Her latest post was a reflection on a world in which David Beckham can make £128m to retire in LA: …it makes you realise that life essentially has no meaning. You [...]