On Trinidad's first Emancipation Day in 1834, Africans were no longer slaves, but they were not yet free. Their quiet self-restraint may have thwarted a plot to postpone their liberation.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0On Trinidad's first Emancipation Day in 1834, Africans were no longer slaves, but they were not yet free. Their quiet self-restraint may have thwarted a plot to postpone their liberation.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0“Ian McDonald was the Caribbean made flesh [...] He was a poet of rare grace, a scribe of eloquence, a keeper of our fragile, fierce cultural flame.”
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0Those involved in criminal acts may oppose how emergency powers are used, but ordinary citizens also want reassurance that such measures remain proportionate, accountable and tied to the public interest.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0Police used colonial-era law to block a protest of police authority in the name of protecting the “integrity” of a national event memorialising unauthorised, anti-colonial resistance to police.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0Protecting this rainforest was a matter of survival for Tobago, but setting the forest aside for conservation also left an indelible mark on global environmental history.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0“Birds are among the most visible symbols of our natural heritage, inspiring national pride and reminding us that our islands are home to extraordinary biodiversity found nowhere else on earth.”
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0The success of states of emergency are not often assessed by how such measures intersect with social dynamics — which in turn shape concepts of masculinity insecurity, and youths’ lived experience.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0“You may dislike the choice [but] to declare that it denigrates culture is to flatten centuries of complexity into a single anxious conclusion.”
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0By the end of the year, the U.S. and Venezuela, on opposite ends of the Caribbean archipelago, would have the region caught in the middle of an unfolding geopolitical standoff.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0Rouse’s bold exploration rejects the familiar language of appetite, abundance and hospitality in favour of enquiry and even estrangement. The photos consider the fruit as organism rather than product.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0Criticism around the prime minister’s posturing, which academic Richard Drayton called “defiantly, even rudely, anti-Caricom,” started in September, when the U.S. began to assert its military presence in the region.
Read at Global Voices · Trinidad & Tobago ↗Shortened feed excerpt · CC BY 3.0Dieffenthaller was “a fierce advocate for the creative arts [who] championed local talent and pushed for the recognition and respect that Caribbean creators deserve.”
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