Trinidad and Tobago Archives | amílcar peter sanatan

Don’t Miss the Culture for IShowSpeed: Streaming Trinidad and Tobago Globally

Posted on April 27, 2026April 29, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

Streaming is the site where young audiences learn about products, discuss current events, and increasingly, engage in their politics. In Trinidad and Tobago, Syphifted is a content creator who began growing audiences in the thousands in her house as a gamer. She is one of millions of youth globally who have constructed their futures online […]

TWILIGHT, Belmont: Reflections on Marlon James’s Man Up

Posted on August 31, 2025April 7, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

Belmont is a tight-knit urban village in East Port-of-Spain known for its carnival mas-making and prowess in steel pan music. The place is also subjected to policing by security forces in response to insecurity and communal conflicts. For some who cannot claim a job, a “reputable” family name, or an education at a prestigious secondary […]

“Whenever Whenever Comes”: Interview with Khalid Romain

Posted on April 23, 2025November 17, 2025 by amílcar sanatan

Khalid Romain (born October 18, 1980) is a dual citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. We crossed paths on social media a few weeks ago. Romain attended secondary school at Trinity College, Moka and Queen’s Royal College in Trinidad and Tobago and went on to pursue higher education at Howard University, Washington D.C. He […]

The Rights of the Child, Race Matters and Political Media

Posted on August 7, 2020April 7, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

Both the People’s National Movement (PNM) and the United National Congress (UNC) have posted photographs of children in the images of campaign engagements. Children in political media is not a problem in itself, some children in the media are children and relatives of candidates, children of prominent community-based political activists, and also children whose parents […]

April Fool’s and the “Recalcitrant Minority” in Trinidad and Tobago

Posted on April 2, 2020April 7, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

In Trinidad and Tobago, you would be shocked to learn how much a very specific term like “recalcitrant,” especially when married to the word “minority,” is part of the popular vocabulary. The phrase “recalcitrant minority” has a particular resonance in the “young, multiethnic, multicultural, newly-independent state” (Rohlehr 1997, 849). Rohlehr’s description of the society in […]