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Letters be, Letters BC
Between the Cabinet-sanctioned wild rape gossip in Parliament and the chairs for state utility company chairpersons that cost more than many people’s cars, the letters pages of the dailies have been...
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Piece of anniversary cake
On Monday, the eve of the fifth anniversary of the agreement that created the People’s Partnership “coalition” that defeated the People’s National Movement in the 2010 general election, the United...
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A brief history of seven readings
The Fifth Bocas Literary Festival enters the third of its five days today and anyone who ever took delight in a Clint Eastwood Western at Globe cinema—or at some genius comment shouted out to the...
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God is dead boring
My name is Kevin Baldeosingh and I’m probably Trinidad & Tobago’s best known atheist.I’m from South – Marabella. But I live now in Central. Where the Indos are more Indian but the same as Penal...
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Dry soul blues
You tell yourself it’s easier to find an honest person in politics than enough grass to kick a ball around in the Savannah: from St Ann’s roundabout to the old Casuals Club Corner, there’re a thousand...
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Europe comes to Town
Over the last two decades, the European Film Festival (EFF) has grown substantially, if only because Europe itself has grown more nations: one of the strongest films of this year’s festival and...
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SEA My Troubles
Last Friday, while the country’s adults were entering a mild psychic shock, the result of two consecutive working weeks without a single public holiday, our children were being violently concussed by...
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SEA Language Artless
Two weeks ago, our children sat the Secondary Entrance Exam, deciding, in three hours, whether they enter one of our few “prestige”—ie, “acceptable”—schools, or if they’re sentenced to five years in...
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Bare Jack
The children of Trinidad & Tobago, who recently sat the Secondary Entrance Exam, will, I hope, forgive me for not completing my own Senility Entrance Exam today, as promised, partly because I...
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57 with a Bullet
Tuesday was my birthday and what have I got after 57 years in life’s frontline? Receding hairline, expanding waistline, infrequent byline and recurring punch line: six times before, last year, in 2014...
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The Book of Kenrick Part XIX
My Uncle Godfrey—God the Uncle—in 2011 called me to sum up the Bible in the voice of Kenrick, the kind of tess who goes from a secondary schoolteacher gig in Central to a top-ranking global sports...
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People’s Bowel Movement
Y’Boy on a beach in Barbados, watching Facebook pictures of South Quay flood out like the Orinoco Delta and the new Port-of-Spain Retention Pond, also called, “Lake Savannah,” and Y’Boy wondering if...
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Songs in the Key of Life
A PARDNER sent me a photo most people have seen on Facebook: the sign in the music shop reading, “Customers trying out guitars are not under any circumstances whatever to play ‘Stairway to Heaven,’...
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Obergefell v Lobster
By a miracle I cannot understand but accept humbly, God appeared to me shortly before deadline and, using an algorithm even more complex than the one the Winklevoss twins devised for FaceBook,...
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CSI Crown Trace, Parliament….
The video on YouTube is called, “Crown Trace Enterprise Trinidad 2015 Part I”, and is more gripping by itself than the last three of Martin Scorsese’s crime flicks combined, though they were all...
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Rhyme of no reason
Lying in my bed, forlorn/ I feel a rhyme a-coming on/ Sometimes it just happens so/ A column comes like calypso/ At least, it happened once before/ my rhyme about our civil war/ That totally Trini coup...
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Ghost in the Machine
Out of the corner of his eye he glimpsed the large group of men in long white garments standing under the wide, covered pavement of the National Library building. Several women sat on the concrete...
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Herself argue herself
Last night, with irony the Mighty Spoiler, composer of Magistrate Try Himself might have admired, the Prime Minister debated herself on state-owned TV. CNMG stands for “Caribbean New Media Group,” but...
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The Scarlet Pimp: The Book of Kenrick Part XX
God the Uncle—my imaginary Uncle Godfrey—in 2011 called me to sum up the Bible in the voice of Kenrick, the kind of Trini tess who fasts rigidly for Ramadan and then celebrates Eid with a bottle of...
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Swimming in hope
My name is Maria Hall and I’m a cashier at a huge variety store in Tobago. I say I’m from Tobago now but I was originally from Trinidad. I’ve been here, like, 12 years. I live in Les Coteau—but they...
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