Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.There are many, many things about Trinbagonian media in general, and our newspapers in particular, that make me want to pull my hair out. I am continually bemused by our haphazard approach to errors and corrections, for instance. But it is our apparent lack of reporters [...]
To this day I regret not interviewing John La Rose before he died. I regret not following through on a proposed project which would have chronicled the lives of different generations of Trinbagonians in London – The New Lonely Londoners: a documentary by Fred and sin I regret the botched handling and inevitable collapse of [...]
When I grow up, I want to write like Michael Harris. I discovered him quite by accident – trawling the (badly implemented but kudos for even having one) RSS feed of the Trinidad Express, lured by the headline “Party politics and the voice of the people.” The man is a true-true political commentator, and an [...]
Trinidad’s internet elite have a new rallying cry: Save the Boissiere House. There’s even a Facebook group and an online petition devoted to the cause, so you know they mean business. Boissiere House, located at 12 Queen’s Park West in Port of Spain, is one of the last remnants of a dying breed: a beautiful [...]
I have the right not to justify my existence in this world not to keep the races separate within me not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical ambiguity not to justify my ethnic legitimacy to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify to identity myself differently than how my parents [...]