The Crisis of Trinidad & Tobago “Bend Over” Is Not a Calypso Verse As is now the norm, there is scarcely a day that passes without some calamitous media barrage tied to the mania surrounding Donald J. Trump. Foreign entanglements. Security escalations. Congressional theater. Healthcare costs climbing beyond reach. Cultural institutions renamed. Sensational files dangled for political titillation. Institutions once regarded as formidable now appearing brittle and compromised. Each of these deserves its own disciplined fact-checking and its own paragraph of accountability. But for me — and for months now — I have been posting with urgency, receipts, and restraint about what troubles me most: the erosion of agency and sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago. I ask readers to refer to my blog archives for the continuity of this concern. What follows is not new panic. It is a...
