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The repetition of history is pointless if it is taught as something ‘dead’, overly generalised and irrelevant to understanding our current social reality and the way we envision the future of our Caribbean nations. But, Dr. John Campbell ensured that history was not a sleeping class or a pointless subject area. The first time I […]
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For Fariah Hyatali This is not a school on a hill; it is a school built within one. On my arrival, I was made to feel small against the giant rise of classroom and administrative buildings. The ninety-year old tamarind tree is the legacy of the yard. Currently, the Sarah Morton dormitory of the ancestral […]
Continue ReadingIn 2008/9, SALISES hosted “Is Calypso Dying?” forum at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. Panelists included Singing Francine, Elizabeth Montano, Brother Resistance and Dr. Louis Regis. Dr. Regis’ contributions stimulated the most responses from attendees. He asserted that soca music did not explicitly express a political consciousness as calypso music had. […]
Continue ReadingWhat happenin’: In 2016, Trinidad and Tobago was embroiled in a battle for women’s and girls’ rights. ‘No Slut Shaming’ and gender-based violence discussions with political pressure by young women’s and feminist groups challenged the then Mayor of Port-of-Spain, Tim Kee, on his public statements after carnival. The carnival was not over when debates around […]
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In Trinidad and Tobago, the budget of the Ministry of National Security in 2016 was $7.625b. There is a popular perspective that sees more gated communities, technologies for the policing of borders by land and sea, and CTV camera surveillance as solutions for our crime situation. There is another approach that incorporates the development of […]
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