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One foot cock up
My bills it done pay, Inspector, leave me aloneFor weeks, I’ve kept waiting for someone to sing Farmer Nappy’s big-tune for all of us. Or at least the Police Commissioner. Kept imagining hopefully the...
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Just like in Charlotte Street
I’ll tell the story from where it started. With the full 2 am flight from Piarco to Newark last weekend. By 10, I was in Brooklyn, in my Tobagonian friend’s mother’s apartment in Ebbets Field, the...
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I flew Brooklyn for Pan
Let me tell the story again. How I went Brooklyn. For Pan. Carnival Thursday night. Entering Despers USA’s panyard, I brush past police. On duty. Inside, news spreads. Kathleen Reilly, who’s waged a...
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Spelling and telling it right
The point of telling a story is the ending. The moral.Sometimes the end falls out of a story. At times the beginning. Or middle. They have out of so many Caribbean stories, across waters, across...
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Showing more love and the sin of Sodom
Even as Chris Tambu Herbert implored us to “Remember your own thing comes first and charity begins at home” 30 years ago, his praise song to national pride opened by leaving room for loving other...
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You watch dat video?
Sextapes just aren’t news. I made that point when I returned to these pages ten months ago. I want to try to make it again.As many people began their sentences this week, I am no fan of Shamfa Cudjoe....
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Freshwater ethics
You know them.All over Facebook. With trenchant opinions. About everything political or moral in TTO. Full of know-it-all prescriptions. About what happens everywhere. Or nihilism. About what will...
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To construct from morning
May Martin Joseph rest in peace. Patrick Manning’s seven-year national security minister haunted me watching the budget debated. Able within an election cycle to do little that eased citizens’ daily...
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Me too
This month, media in the United States told stories about two well-kept secrets: twenty years of long rumoured sexual predation of women in his industry by New York movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. And a...
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Trumpistanity
“Why we going there,” Rudder asked 30 years ago. And we really didn’t answer. “St Ann’s!”It was tomorrow night a year ago. The first Tuesday after November 1st. Well, the wee hours of...
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Building stronger families
Everyone who is single (other than you and me) is single for a reason. The adventure of dating someone is to eventually discover that reason. People capable of relationships—are in them.By the time...
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Imagining we are responsible for change
I hope somebody deals with that,” Angela Davis mused from the stage.Thursday night was emotional. Some of it was a combined frustration at technology and humanity. Bad GPS, plus my inexperience with...
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The law in our hands
The acting CoP strutted and fretted about his stage, full of sound and fury about lawlessness. Nikki Crosby was vomiting, tearful and prayerful. Both came to my American Thanksgiving dinner—over my...
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It good for him
In a shooting with all the hallmarks of a bias crime, a well-loved trans woman, a performer, an HIV worker, a community advocate, was murdered Tuesday. Sasha Fierce she chose to be called.2017 Murder...
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The Diamond Vale house
The next-door neighbour strolled towards us, across his front lawn, up to our chain-link fence, holding what everybody once called a HiLo bag, and his shovel. “Don’t look at what I’m doing,” he...
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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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