Tag: L. Siddhartha Orie

As promised in my first list of Awardees, and to appease those in panic-mode bothering that I left out deserving persons, here is that promised other ‘tranche’: For Literature, the ...

Because this undertaking to recognise Indo-Trinis with a Naipaulian award for excellence in their multitudinous, eclectic fields of endeavour has proven to be a spectacular success with glitterati emerging in ...

Over the years when awards were made by the State and we saw every time just a handful of names from the Indo-Trini community, the country was made to think, ...

Because I am sometimes the epitome of the adages: what should be done today should not be put off until tomorrow; that we should make hay while the sun shines ...

Afro-American memoirist and poet, Maya Angelou famously said, “I got my own back” apparently implying that as a non-white person in a country where equality was not a given, she ...

Afro-American memoirist and poet, Maya Angelou famously said, “I got my own back” apparently implying that as a non-white person in a country where equality was not a given, she ...

Eulogies are really praises made for the recently dead but isn’t that a bit nihilistic, a bit like a life insurance policy where the insured is entitled to collect his ...

Because of their confusion with the letters O and A war (pronounced wor) in the English speaking world is pronounced waarrr.. by Guyanese and so instead of there being a ...

Farley: Secession, Expulsion, Devolution, Revolution, whatever… …Whatever is required, but Tobago must be jettisoned, severed, dismembered, distanced, disconnected, from its navel string ties with Trinidad as a most urgent constitutional ...

I remember when England won the 1966 World Football final how their manager, Alf Ramsey, was the second main attraction after the Cup for his stoic almost indifferent reaction to ...