Author: Tony Deyal
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The King and I
There are many faces to Sparrow- his humour, his women, his travels, his concern for social justice, his politics and his raw sexuality. But they are our faces, our concerns and our interests. He is us.
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The Female of the Species
An assessment of the impact of Hurricane Ivan on Jamaica by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) in 2004 stated, “The event’s direct damage Continue reading
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Chili to the Burn
There was a time when I occasionally indulged in beverages brimful of beaded bubbles instead of liquids intended merely to prevent dehydration and desiccation. It Continue reading
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Wanted Dead or Alive
The archetypal Western movie, “Gunfight at the OK Corral” was based on a 30-second gun battle in the aptly-named town of Tombstone between the Earp Continue reading
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Coffee, Tea or Me Too?
In my Grandmother’s house, we always had three kinds of “tea”. The choices were green tea, coffee tea and cocoa tea. Sometimes, for a treat, Continue reading
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If Technology is the Answer, What is the Question?
In the early 1990s I was a short-term consultant at the World Bank looking at about eighty projects in different parts of the world to Continue reading
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Here Come the Judges!
Trinidad Carnival 2014 has ended and in listening to how much money the winners of the various contests had scored, I immediately thought about the Continue reading
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Masked Balls and Jab-Jabs
I am in Trinidad. It is hot and dry. The roads are crowded. The murder rate is high. The nights are noisy. It is a Continue reading
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Marley, Miller and Bishop
Sometimes our sense of superiority might be totally misplaced. My second-best example is a story from my youth. Some of my friends worked in Sam’s Continue reading
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Midnight Lace and Burning Rubber
In Trinidad people burn tyres, one went on a hunger strike, others chant in stirring rhythm their frustration and generally a good time is had Continue reading