Over the years I have touched on life as it is in the color of my skin. Only cursory at best. I have never delved deeply into what this experience is and has been for me. Never felt I had the words or the courage to accurately express what this …
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We call it Mas…
Rabs Immortelle was the name of the little Mas band from Belmont that my friends and I as young fellows would meet for what we in Trinidad call a last lap. After gallivanting through out Port of Spain on Carnival Tuesday we would make it our business to seek out …
Parang – Also the music of Trinidad & Tobago
I wrote many years ago in one of my spoken word pieces that my accent is like a potpourri of exercises in colonization left unfinished forever branded on the cusp of my tongue. An offspring of this little island called Trinidad where our culture is indeed a potpourri of cultures, …
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