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On knee-high boots on a tropical island, and other absurdities

11-May-08

“Seriously?” That word, that exclamation, that question-almost-rhetorical, defines my reaction to the Trinidad I have witnessed over the past two weeks. Women wearing knee-high leather boots on a sweltering hot day? Seriously? A Maserati roaring past on the highway? Seriously? Seven dollars for a loaf of bread? Eight dollars for chewing gum? Seriously? And so [...]

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Archive everything (or, the necessity of cultural historians)

20-Feb-08

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 [...]

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This old house

17-Feb-08

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 [...]

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