Since common expressions such as : The Sky is the Limit and Que’ Sera, Sera (“Whatever will be, Will be”), have become of such casual value, that they now slip off our tongues like bits of empty, meaningless debris fit only for the proverbial dustbin. That may be one of the reasons why our young …
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A large number of Trini expressions are well known to predict the outcome of certain deviant behaviours with a great degree of accuracy. Take this one, for example: Every hog have their Saturday. Commonly used by mothers when giving a stern warning to recalcitrant boy children, these admonitions eventually end up with the nonchalant delinquent …
So George Lamming, the Caribbean literary giant who has walked a similar journey with titans like Vidya Naipaul, Sam Selvon, Michael Anthony, Edgar Mittleholzer and Earl Lovelace, took his last step out of this earthly realm into the upper world about a day ago. There will never be enough tributes to satisfy the voracious appetite …
Once looked upon as the black knight of Caribbean football, Austin Jack Warner born 1943 and now approaching 80, is now similar in status to what former Police Commissioner Gary Griffith liked to call a “cockroach” as he hides in a small corner, hopefully out of sight of the USA’s bright Extradition torch light. The …
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The house is receding into a silence which she is usually in fear of but not tonight, since the walls are still reverberating with the rush and roar of happy memories and moments that preceded the day’s noble event. It’s Imelda Jackson’s 96th birthday and for Tanty – as she is fondly called by all …
In one stroke of sheer political brilliance drawn from the deepest archives of his grandfather’s legacy and his mother’s People’s National Movement (PNM) experience, Faris Al Rawi recently put up the fight of his life to convince the world about his bona fides. Pleading with all doubters who had seen his shift from AG to …
The multi-ethnic rural town of Siparia, south Trinidad was already well known for its indigenous Parang music, the revered Saint La Divina Pastora and agricultural produce when Kamla Susheila Persad unobtrusively emerged on the scene on April 22, 1952. Her father was a bookkeeper and worked in the accounting department of Texaco, while her mother was …
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While the phrase “Dying…Dying” had become popular in 1964 because of a little tight-tongued boy’s limitation in properly pronouncing the word “Darling” in the Mighty Bomber’s national prize winning Calypso, it’s now become a tragic lament with a correct turn of words all over the T+T landscape. In the past couple months or so, we …
Recent media exposure of demure-looking TT Housing and Urban Development Minister Pennelope “Penny” Beckles distributing houses to beneficiaries in MP Faris Al Rawi’s San Fernando West , triggered memories of the innovative thinking employed by this country’s first Prime Minister Dr Eric Williams in his quest to win the hearts of people for life. The …
One of the disturbing developments observed to be taking place in recent times is the closure of branches of one of popular, foreign-partnered banks in this exceptionally wealthy, tiny twin-island Caribbean republic of Trinidad and Tobago. (Population: 1.6 million- about 1/3 the population of Queens, NY (2.5 million); and – at 1,864 square feet – …
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