Trinidad and Tobagonians, We Are Not Chupid! What Is a U.S. Warship Doing at the Port of T&T?
We Are Not Chupid — A sober reflection on sovereignty, proximity, and the vocabulary of “routine” visits. Equality Is the Test — Zone of Peace is the baseline. I am paused. Not from defeat, but because life has handed me a different kind of present — one that asks for full-time responsibility to care, to notice, to be aware of someone else’s needs. In return, it has given me the quiet — a sacred quiet — to render my thoughts on paper, to find the words that give meaning to what I witness. This pause is not the absence of motion; it is the presence of reflection. It is a vantage point from which I can finally see the wider world in sharper detail, and name what is unfolding before us. I have crossed the retirement bridge with a body that remembers every decade of strain and setback. Yet in this stillness my senses are brighter than ever. Thought runs hot; I write, I release, I refuse to go quiet. And it is from this sharpened place t...
