Education Archives | amílcar peter sanatan

“Colonisation has a Big Impact on the Way to Organise Our Island”: Interview with Audrey Pastel

Posted on July 18, 2025April 7, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

J’ai rencontré Audrey Pastel (née en 1989) pour la première fois à la conférence du Forum urbain des Caraïbes 2024 en République dominicaine. Nous faisions tous deux partie d’un groupe de jeunes délégués qui se réunissaient fréquemment pour délibérer sur le développement urbain régional, y compris des sujets brûlants tels que le retrait des monuments […]

No Caribs, No Awaraks: Farewell Dr. John Campbell

Posted on January 13, 2018April 7, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

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 […]

Why Naparima Girls are Closest to Heaven

Posted on July 2, 2017April 6, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

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 […]

What #LifeInPants #LifeInBoxers #EggplantEntries Don’t Get – Caribbean Men in Solidarity with #LifeInLeggings

Posted on December 2, 2016April 6, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

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 […]

50 Shades of GATE: Beyond Party Politics and Ole Talk – A Student Perspective

Posted on August 7, 2016April 4, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

“And when you trust your television What you get is what you got ’cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want” – John Mayer, Waiting on the World to Change We would not be having this discussion on GATE today, if the state consistently monitored and evaluated the programme […]