Calypsonian Fire Tender, aka singer-songwriter Gillian Moore, offers a suggestion to men who pretend to love women in order to get sex with her Carnival 2025 ‘womanisfesto’. Leave She Alone is arranged by Phil Hill, and includes drummer Gerard Rajkumar, bassist Joanna Hussain, guitarist John Hussain, and jazz horn player …
Read More »Vaneisa: Warming up for Christmas—how to get through a daunting season
I wanted to write something about the approaching season, and found this column from five years ago. It said most of what I wanted to say so I used it as the basis for today’s offering. There’s frenzy. And stillness. Gaiety and brooding. The full spectrum of human emotions stretches …
Read More »How T&T courts fail dependent spouses and jeopardise mental health of families
“[…] Access to justice is a human right and divorce is a basic exercise in access to justice. For many women, divorce is the only means by which to escape domestic violence or financial subjugation at the hands of a spouse. “[…] Adjournments or no shows of judges prolong the …
Read More »Spotting red flags and creating healthy relationships in a cutass, misogynistic, mentally ill culture
“[…] The first and most important red flag test a woman can give a man is to tell him ‘no’, especially when he really wants to do something involving your time, body, reputation, property or livelihood. “His request does not just have to be sexual. It can be anything. If …
Read More »Live Wire: US police, not Lifetime, picks up alleged murder plot from Guardian columnist, Hadeed
Trinidad Express editorial writer: I’m so bad-arse that despite criticism from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Chinese embassy, Sinopharm Beijing and thousands of readers over a ‘scientific experiment’ so weak that any five-year-old familiar with the works of Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz would roll their eyes, I just wrote …
Read More »Noble: Impossible demands of men and condoned cruelty against women—domestic violence’s toxic mix
Nobody goes on a second date if, on the first one, they got slapped around. The woman (it is more often a woman) does not realise that they are in an abusive relationship until it is late. The abuser sets the honey trap, seducing the unsuspecting victim into believing that …
Read More »Deconstructing monogamy: Why Wired868’s ‘Outside Woman’ is ahead of the game—like the Greek Hetairae
First, the disclaimer. Disabuse yourself of the assumption I am against marriage and monogamy. You could not be further from the truth. I’m not only a veteran in the practice, I shared some supportive insight on how to do monogamy successfully; with eyes wide open, realistic expectations and cost/benefit ratio …
Read More »‘T&T’s the breeding ground of horning; I just live my truth’: Day in the life of an outside woman
“[…] The way I see it, I relieve [those men] of the boredom in their marriages and relationships with good company and great sex, and in return I’m rewarded with money, gifts and an exciting lifestyle. This career is a bit different from others though as I am both boss …
Read More »Love’s Diary: Getting her own back; the cold war
Budding author Raheema Sayyid-Andrews looks in on a chilly night in lover’s lane: She stares at the wall. It was not in appreciation of the creamy peach paint or the painting that graced it, although she had recently heard that the artist was raking in some serious dough now. She …
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