Tag Archives: East Port of Spain

This week, we witnessed the funeral of Ezekiel Paria, who was shot while riding a bicycle in his village. It was tragic. His dreams and his mother’s hopes were snuffed out through indiscriminate shooting on a main road. But have we thought for a moment about the young woman, 15 …

MENDOZA: I am a brigand. I live by robbing the rich. TANNER: (promptly) I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903. This interplay reveals the nature of men: one is a gangster bent on restoring “social justice,” the other …

‘Poor children are victims of circumstance/ In life they never really get a chance/Or have opportunities as privileged children do/ The road from the poor suburb to prison leads them/ From broken homes they are condemned to fail/ Their abusive and drug-addicted parents serving time in jail/ Their parents too …

“We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many. “We will revere and obey the city’s laws …

Desperadoes Steel Orchestra is in no position to refuse the generosity of the prime minister, but the population can. We can tell Dr Keith Rowley that the reasons Despers left the ‘Hill’ are still with us and may even be more deeply entrenched as we count the daily shootings, killings …

For more than 40 years, Trendsetter Hawks founder Anthony ‘Dada’ Wickham has shepherded nearly 1,500 East Port-of-Spain youth away from the stereotypes attached to the area. According to him, the time had come for the club to do even more for its young players. “For years we had just been …

The Brazil 2014 World Cup has dominated conversations all over the globe and, in the past week, there was finally irrefutable evidence about which nation got stuck in the “Group of Death.” Spain? Not even close. More like Port of Spain. A four-day long weekend was a chance for families …