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Believing in Santa Claus
I believe Santa Claus had stopped coming to my house by the time we moved to Diamond Vale. I turned eight here.He’s such a funny type. Most of the years that he comes with a bang, children just don’t...
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The danger of forgetting
I’ve been wanting to contemplate our particular Nativity-season art form. Not parang. The Christmas smut.How, as Hindus locally celebrate Christmas, while Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses...
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An answer for Fitzyto
I’d met the member just once, at a church panel that had made news, where he’d disagreed with the hosting pastor, insisting he would shame and coerce his child away from homosexuality. As our shaking...
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Schools that smadify
Remember my story how five years ago, swaying beneath the stage of his Savannah temple, David Rudder lost my attention, as my pores raised watching this 20-something near me singing each word by...
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Mih pardners an dem
Several pardners of mine had some really memorable things to say this week.BC Pires hit a classically offensive six, touching the ball with “If you can measure Trinidad’s compassion viciously...
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Heaven on fire!
I’ve never written this column in tears before. I know I am crying because David Mitchell has died. Yet I do not fully know why I am crying. Death calls on you to reckon the measure of your loss; and...
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Wining in others’ shoes
My New York readers recall how parts of our stories can vanish. How we need to stubbornly re-tell them. It’s the youthman at the end, who shifts the narrative, who’s disappeared again. Like panman...
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One rule of calypso
By now Voice should be calypso monarch, ushered into last night’s Savannah final by Skinner Park’s wave of voices, despite an audio catastrophe of a Kaiso Fiesta performance, with a punctuated vocal...
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Blamelust
The young woman, she said, took her entire family in the Jagessars’ 2018 San Fernando Carnival band last Monday. Six of them. Three generations.Her five-month-old son had been a hit, she said, at...
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I’m not straight
That’s me trying to be presidential. As is appropriate to today’s solemn occasion.By my reckoning, today marks publication of my 120th Guardian column. And, of my own reckoning, it is my last.It’s been...
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