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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 […]
Continue ReadingNeisha Wattley, a market vendor, sells foods and vegetables with her husband, Chris Rambhal. Before Christmas this year, she lived in a windowless “shack” near a riverbank that neither had running pipe water nor electricity. In 2014, Wattley was in the media and public eye, on a matter related to the home. But, this issue […]
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Dear Caribbean Men,Maybe #AllProtectiveCoveringForLegsMatter but in the Caribbean and throughout the world, women’s lives do not matter in a patriarchy. On Monday, a policewoman was raped and almost killed by a taxi driver in Trinidad and Tobago. The President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump gives advice to other men on women to […]
Continue ReadingMachel Montano was the star of Bazodee (directed by Todd Kessler and written by Claire Ince). People went to the cinema to see the “Machel Movie.” The film highlighted the vivid colours of the natural landscape of Trinidad and Tobago. It also portrayed ethnic solidarities/“real unity” between Afro- and Indo-Trinbagonians on screen. This solidarity is […]
Continue ReadingHas Facebook Live changed the game? Yes. In Minnesota, Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of the Philando Castile, went live on Facebook and actively reported the developments of what happened after her boyfriend was shot while sitting in his car at a traffic stop. In a way that was impossible before, the world had the chance […]
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