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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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On nomadism

03-May-09

I wrote this, elsewhere, three months ago: I am a stranger. I am estranged. I am a person without a country, without people, without kin. I rely more often on the kindness of strangers than the loyalty of friends. I watch those I love and loved and lost create lives in which I play no [...]

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This is not the time to not know what you’re talking about

19-Sep-08

Several months ago, I bemoaned T&T’s “apparent lack of reporters who actually understand business, finance, law”. The absence of sufficiently qualified finance and business reporters from the halls of T&T’s newsrooms is even more galling now, as the global financial crisis deepens. And make no mistake, it is a crisis – one that few people [...]

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