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Right from the start, let’s get things clear. We have a problem with harmful noise in T&T. Bad habits and reckless behaviour are not admirable features of cultural practice. And it’s not only celebratory events. The question is how we propose to address such a challenge in all its manifestations.
Saying this in no way diminishes the value ...
Even a full week in Belém, Brazil at the 30th Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) can leave you ambivalent on questions of specific value and impact, outside of staid official communication suspiciously evidentiary of pre-determined bureaucratic outcomes.
You need not lo...
The largest regularly scheduled global event to review progress on actions related to climate change (the climate crisis) has convened in the city of Belem, Brazil in the presence of some of the more vocally sceptical states - albeit through relatively low-level representation.
Nobody - whatever the public bluster - seems wil...
Last Saturday, I was honoured to contribute to a panel discussion on the life and music of the late pan arranger/composer, Jit Samaroo, as part of a three-day festival bearing his name.
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(First published in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian on September 27, 2017)
On any regular weekday afternoon in Roseau, Dominica, you would see the children in school uniform pass. They hold each other’s hands to negotiate the slim footpaths while fretful adults follow nervously behind.
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