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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 […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingBoth 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 […]
Continue ReadingIn 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 […]
Continue ReadingSpoiler alert: Sociological critique of the construction of a white man’s paradise and neo-colonial gaze with reference to the Caribbean. “The national bourgeoisie organises centres of rest and relaxation and pleasure resorts to meet the wishes of the Western bourgeoisie. Such activity is given the name of tourism, and for the occasion will be built […]
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