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On being the change I wish to see (and freaking out about it)

20-Jan-08

When I first left home, six years ago, I was resolved not to come back. Why should I? Trinidad, I declared, held nothing but bacchanal and botheration. I felt stifled there, and bored. I didn’t fit in. I needed to leave. So I left, and like so many other West Indians abroad, discovered that I [...]

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Crime and Carnival

04-Feb-07

A thousands words, they say. In these two pictures, the juxtaposition of the two things that dominate and indeed, define Trinidad & Tobago circa 2007: fetes and death.

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Welcome to Trinidad

10-Apr-06

I know, I know. Listening to too much Damian Marley. But the construction is apposite – we are becoming more like Jamaica, daily. Case in point: Trinidad and Tobago has become more homicidal than Jamaica-while murders are decreasing there, the murder rate here is steadily on the rise…In 2005 Jamaica’s murder rate went up by [...]

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