Our fiction is reality. If we are the sum of those we have walked with, our creative expressions like fiction are also compilations of those sensory experiences. The fiction which escapes through our fingers onto a screen or as entertainment in a rum shop is someone’s reality. Fiction is often positioned as the opposite of reality. It is offered as an escape from, an expression which shapes, and as a…
I have experienced tear gas twice in my life. First at a “black power march” in Port of Spain and secondly at that famous “Pele” football match in the Queen’s Park Oval. These memories came flooding back to me on a recent site visit to the Queen’s Park Oval. It is amazing that the pungency of Tear Gas has never left my consciousness. I was drawn to the 1970 revolution…
Emile Elias, Executive Chairman NH International (Caribbean) Ltd. My life has been one of high expectation. I expected that by now our country would have been further ahead. So in a way, I have been looking for those ideas which would make a lasting difference to how Trinidad and Tobago governs itself. What I have learned along the way is that things happen on two levels: This starts with the…