Trinbagonian n.— «What the U.S. National Team walked into late last night, some 40 hours before kickoff against Trinidad & Tobago, was a whole nation draped in red and fired by the slightly disconcerting slogan: “Bun dem!”...
Trinbagonian n.— «When I’m done with the question of Afros in education and school, I doubt I’d have written many columns more upsetting to the Trinbagonian.» —“Sorrel source of endless fascination” by Lloyd...
sampated v.— «The fact is that Powell was up against it early when he took the job at State. Vice President Dick Cheney’s staff second-guessed every element of foreign policy. In good Trini parlance, he was “sampated” from the...
cocoa payol n.— «If one admitted to knowing Hindi, one would be ostracised for being “coolie”; if one admitted to knowing French, as a “country bookie” or “small islander”; Spanish, a “cocoa...
country bookie n.— «If one admitted to knowing Hindi, one would be ostracised for being “coolie”; if one admitted to knowing French, as a “country bookie” or “small islander”; Spanish, a “cocoa...