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Category Archives: Rights & Freedoms

It Gets Better

03-Nov-10

The piece below appears courtesy Laurie Voss of Seldo.com, who wrote it in honour of the It Gets Better Project and speficially for gay teens in T&T Hi. So I know this is several paragraphs long and you were born into the age of YouTube so you may not get to the end of this. [...]

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Corporate dreadlocs and other stories

19-Apr-10

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece that argued thus, on the subject of my preferred “hairstyle”: I am my hair. I am challenging, I am defiant, I do not apologize. And the next time some Wall Street multimillionaire or Oxbridge-educated middle-aged perpetually entitled white British editor encounters a twenty-something <insertracehere> woman from the Caribbean, [...]

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T&T Gov’t finally steps up on the Schengen visa issue

07-Aug-09

About damn time too. The Express reports: Citizens will no longer need a visa for the French overseas territories once their stay is 30 days or less. Foreign Affairs Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon announced yesterday that following an approach by the Government, the French Government has agreed to exempt nationals of this country travelling to Guadeloupe, [...]

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