THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY BC PIRES The plot, characters and many words in this column were lifted, mutatis mutandis, from George Orwell’s Animal Farm JONES DE VERTEUIL, of the Great House, meant to lock the animals in their pens one Carnival Sunday night, but was too drunk. So, when he drove his old Bentley to
Sometimes light emerges from unimaginable darkness. When the pandemic gripped the world and sent us all into lockdown, three Trinidadian women artists ventured out of their homes and out of the gloom to find the light abundantly clear in Gran Couva, in Central Trinidad. “2020 started with covid19, and I had just finished breast cancer
“[…] Luisa Calderon and Thisbe […] lived through the foundational violence of colonialism which shaped not only the vulnerabilities that they had to negotiate in their time but those that women
“It is clear that R De Verteuil was referring to Afro Trinbagonians when she criticised Laventillians. Not once did she mention the contributions of Africans to the development of Trinidad and Tobag