Richard Charan
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Past articles by Richard:
What Dog Face Discovered
Shaheed Mohammed never had an easy day in all his life. → Read More
The birth of Deltones
Fierce rivalry in those hillside villages overlooking Port of Spain is nothing new.From the 1940s, the decade of pan’s development, boundaries were drawn not by drug block and head don, → Read More
The Bissessarsinghs of Belmont
There was once a house of mud and grass standing on a hillside at Quarry Village, Siparia.It was built by a man who chose love over wealth and status.Eulick Bissessarsingh → Read More
The 100-year-old gift
When Emeritus Professor at the University of Chicago Robert S Platt died in 1964, he was celebrated in an obituary as “a scholarly-adventurer of a salty, philosophical turn of mind, → Read More
WASA MUST PAY $3M
In an appeal that the law lords of the Privy Council said “should not have been brought, as it was bound to fail”, the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has → Read More
The precious Paramin house
When those five days of non-stop rainfall started in late November, usually unbothered Trinis took this one seriously as every big river overflowed, roads washed away, and landslides cut off → Read More
T&T’s Lockerbie terror victim
One December day 34 years ago, a suitcase bomb exploded aboard a passenger jet as it flew from London to New York.People and plane parts rained from the sky over → Read More
Mystery of missing Marc
THIS story is meant particularly for the people who know exactly what happened the afternoon of May 14, 2003, and why. → Read More
10 years later: The Highway Hunger
If there was an exact location, a single address, that represented what that botched Debe-Mon Desir segment of the highway extension to Point Fortin did to people living in its → Read More
The lonely graves of the ladies
I was ten years old when my father began subscribing to the National Geographic magazine. → Read More
The Last Sign Painter?
On a wall in the rum drinking section of VP Gooljar’s junction shop in Barrackpore, is an unfinished mural that depicts the men who lived, worked, and died in this → Read More
A message from the sea
Trinidad is shrinking. On every coast, the ocean is clawing at the land. → Read More
The Forest Secret
One memorable day in 1982, bushman Antinio Herrera rounded up some partners living in the village of Brothers Road, Tabaquite, and followed an abandoned railway line tunnelling into the forest. → Read More
‘I could go and go, until death’
Pt II Tobago’s 18th-century violent resistance to enslavement had no parallel in Trinidad. A proud example was the uprising in 1770, led by an African known to us only by his slave name, Sandy, which happened only six years after the start of plantation development on the island, and saw at least 20 whites killed. The revolt raged for six weeks before it was crushed, historian Prof Bridget… → Read More
Man vs sea
When Raymond La Croix was 17-years-old, he would stand on the beach at Grande Riviere Bay on moonless nights, looking out to sea on Trinidad’s North Coast. → Read More
The mystery of Joan Francis
On Sunday, the world was reminded of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed almost 3,000 people in New York City, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon in the United → Read More
The unmarked graves of Basta Hall
On most days, you will find a flock of sheep and goats grazing on a windswept hillside that is the Basta Hall Public Cemetery.It would be hard to tell them → Read More
A courthouse of haunting stories
Scrawled across every surface in the basement cell block of the condemned San Fernando Magistrates’ Court are the testimonials of generations of prisoners who passed through this place.There are poems → Read More
Exploring the Paria tragedy
It was 110 days ago when five LMCS Ltd divers—Christopher Boodram, Fyzal Kurban, Rishi Nagassar, Kazim Ali Jr and Yusuf Henry—prepared to go out to the Berth 6 platform off → Read More
The cars are the stars
THE year 1934 would be the beginning of years of strike action and riots by the working class of Trinidad, which saw the rise of union leaders and labour parties, → Read More