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Sunday, April 6, 2014Colin RobinsonIn introductions our first day, another student in my UWI creative writing programme shared his goal—write a book that gets on the CXC syllabus.
View ArticleWho is vulnerable?
Sunday, April 20, 2014Colin RobinsonWho’s Next? is a free noon event on Thursday at NGC Bocas Lit Fest at the Old Fire Station in Port-of-Spain. Seven intriguing new voices offer a tease of T&T’s...
View ArticleFreedom to take mine away
Sunday, May 4, 2014Colin RobinsonFifty years after flag-and-anthem independence, we are still constructing nations, institutions, values and justice in the Caribbean.
View ArticleIs that okay with you?
Sunday, May 18, 2014Colin RobinsonI’ve taken up a new habit: ranting about nation-building in service places and government offices. It doesn’t feel as cathartic as cussing.
View ArticleImagine a politics that’s not about voting
Sunday, June 1, 2014Colin RobinsonI’m no big political analyst. But I’m beginning to think and talk about what happens after the PNM wins the next general election. That’s not foregone, though. But not...
View ArticleYoung people learn not to expect justice
Sunday, June 15, 2014Colin RobinsonHalfway through the year, policing has killed 12 young men under 23.
View ArticleFatherless and broken
Sunday, June 29, 2014Colin RobinsonI’ve found it really difficult to engage with all the probably welcome public discussion and solution-seeking about fatherhood that culminated on Father’s Day two...
View ArticleLosing faith
Sunday, July 13, 2014Colin RobinsonOne of the things that always made most sense to me about moving back home was the manageable scale of things.
View ArticleSOLDIERS in Wonderland
Sunday, July 27, 2014Colin RobinsonMy world went down a rabbit hole last week. I woke up and was living in a militarised state.
View ArticleEnsure there’s never an Anil Roberts again
Sunday, August 10, 2014Colin RobinsonAnother newspaper columnist, Clarence Rambarat (whom Singing Sandra in a Facebook thread once invited along with me to meet her somewhere private) has gone political.
View ArticleForging the Liberty to Love
Colin RobinsonThis Independence Day, the Prime Minister will make a lofty speech about equality, diversity, discrimination, inclusion, nation-building and progress.
View ArticleRepresentative Government
Colin RobinsonI can’t help but admire animal welfare activist Jowelle De Souza, who received more attention than any other national awardee last weekend.
View ArticleThe Abominable Crime
Micah Fink’s 2013 documentary on Jamaican homophobia, shown at the T&T Film Festival Wednesday, will be screened again next Sunday at the Little Carib Theatre. Here Angelique V Nixon, Bahamian...
View ArticleWhy Kamla and I agree
Last week I called my Prime Minister a political coward who’d embarrassed the nation internationally. I wasn’t alone. Joining the bobolee-thumping were the Guardian’s editors, several letter-to-the...
View ArticleEnd 18-Year Debate On Sexual Orientation
Amember of the COP national executive observed that we’ve been debating sexual orientation and the Equal Opportunity Act (EOA) since last century—it emerged from a 1996-1997 parliamentary joint select...
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Bunji and calypso’s historical imagination
Patricia has left me You would be shocked to hear who replaced me Patricia has left me You would be shocked to hear who replaced me Days upon days I sits down and cry You may want to ask me the reason...
View ArticleDeath, wrecking, Immigration, and blocking the road
I suffered both the wrecker and passport office in the same day. Wrecking income must soar with each big funeral at a central Port-of-Spain church; I wonder if the Traffic Branch canvasses funeral...
View ArticleLeaping into 2015
My French teacher Mr Lilla told a true story about a man, as iconic as any Taffy or Mrs Bhakcu, in the East Port-of-Spain plannings where he grew up. He wanted to end his life and jumped from the top...
View ArticleWhy are women, girls falling out of our HIV response?
Though the core of my career has been spent working in HIV, in recent years, I’ve refocused that effort on what we call sexual citizenship, fighting to make sure people are valued and included and...
View ArticleAll we know to do is tap, hang, bully, chop, shoot
The senior police officer who called a flight attendant racist when she asked him to stop answering his phone as the plane taxied, and the SRPs who joined in slapping up a beggar in a wheelchair and...
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