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- 23 December, 2024
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Culture Articles by CounterPunchTT
MOONILAL GOES CHUTNEY
PROMINENT politician Dr. Roodal Moonilal is now being regaled in chutney. Singer Kenneth Seepersad copped the second position in the semi-final of the Soca-Chutney Competition with “Moonilal D Man With The Big Dhantal.”
CRIME PUTS NOTTING HILL MAS IN TROUBLE
A SPREE of violence has led to calls for banning the famous Notting Hill Carnival street parade.
NO MORE LAGAHOO: FOLKLORE LEGEND DIES
AL Ramsawack, the prolific chronicler of native folklore stories, has died at age 87.
Ramsawack, who wrote more than 300 children’s books on lagahoo, douens, socouyants and other legendary characters, passed away after a short illness.
DID NICKI TRY TO MASK HUSBAND’S SEX CONVICTION?
DID Nicki Minaj utter the outburst on “swollen testicles” to mask her husband’s conviction for rape?
Several people, including some in the American media, are asking that question, after Minaj’s outrageous claim about her cousin’s friend in Trinidad and Tobago suffering from “swollen testicles” after receiving the Covid-19 vaccination.
NO, NICKI, NO
RINIDAD and Tobago-born rapper Nicki Minaj is getting blows from around the world – including from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson – for anti-Covid-19 vaccine statements.
Minaj, formerly of St. James, said that a cousin in T&T got swollen testicles and became impotent as a result of the vaccine, and put off his wedding.
BIDEN PRAISES SEWA
UNITED States President Joe Biden has praised an international charity organisation that is active in Trinidad and Tobago.
CHUTNEY SINGER REFERS TO ROWLEY AS ‘DONKEY’
“They take a gadahar/And make him Prime Minister/This man eh play he dotish/He is a disaster/He divide and destroy we beautiful country/That is what does happen when you put a donkey.”
ONLYFANS’ T&T’S CLIENTS
The social media service is used by sex workers, musicians and influencers to communicate with more than 130 million users around the world.
WEY PAN REACH…
A $14 million pan theatre for Desperadoes – a 12-time national Panorama and five-time Classical competition winner – has been finally opened at its Laventille community.
MASTER OR MISOGYNIST?
LEROY Clarke, the artist who recently died, was a staunch critic of gay lifestyles. Clarke had also made a racist epithet against the new Basdeo