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I suspect a lot of T&T needs to hear this, but the police aren’t supposed to kill guilty people either
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As a child, Christmas happened to you. You didn’t have to do anything because the adults did the things that made you “feel Christmas”.
As an adult, you have to make Christmas happen. You have to make the sorrel & ponche a crème & black cake.
You have to make Christmas happen
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Thread of Trinbagonian Brands that have shown their true colors:
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Someone just said Christmas is next week and I was like no that’s not right
Alyuh. Christmas is next week.
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Sinopharm not being accepted by Canada:
“We getting second rate vaccines” ❌
“The developed west hoarded vaccines/blocked vaccine purchases only to then “weaponize” exclusivity and shortages they created” ✅
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I hate the part of liking someone where I can feel the common sense leaving my body
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We drinking till we find the Q in Curepe has to be the funniest thing I heard this weekend 😭😭😭
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Aite trini twitter so what we NOT gonna do is bully a child for being a child, aite? Aite.
Thanks, Management
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Republic bank probably tired of me being on their necks but y’all could be great!
The biggest bank in Trinidad, second biggest in the Caribbean. Why your app make like it from 2011?!
I believe in y’all
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So how come alyuh trust the scientists that say you can get COVID when vaccinated, but not those same scientists when they say get vaccinated anyway because the vaccines are doing their job?
Quickly.
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So to recap yesterday before we start today:
> Man with nigga hair
> show panty for 11 likes
> race daddy for pink slip
> aunt shape like a piece of ginger
If yuh coming today with ting, yuh hadda swing harder than da, otherwise just choose peace and lewwe have a good Saturday
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Trinidad & Tobago crossed 200K persons vaccinated with the full dosage of their vaccines 🎉🎉🎉
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I’m just gonna say it, I hate how for a multicultural society there’s this full subtext of Christianity in all government functions/events.
It’s a form of institutionalized religious discrimination. Either we eliminate it entirely from government functions or include all.
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“Didn’t y’all walk around with chicken pox” THE FUCK NO I DIDNT?!?! Are y’all insANE????
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Exactly 31 days ago, Trinidad and Tobago hit its peak COVID-19 infection rate, averaging around 542 cases per day.
Today, we’re averaging around 227 cases per day.
Still a ways to go, but that is a 58% decrease.
We’re almost there T&T 🇹🇹
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We are. Reopening borders. For repatriation.
We are NOT. Reopening borders. For tourism.
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Ngl, I think Trinidad & Tobago’s ultimate flex is that our anthem was supposed to be the Caribbean’s national anthem lol
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“Is d school chirren causing d traffic” no joel it’s you driving at 60 in the fast lane in your FUCKING KIA SOUL
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Anyway, if you live in:
Barataria/San Juan
Mayaro
Moruga/Tableland (Princes Town/Tableland)
Point Fortin
Pointe-A-Pierre
San Fernando West
St. Augustine
St Joseph
Tobago East
Tobago West
Toco/Sangre Grande
Tunapuna
IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO VOTE
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Misogyny 🤷🏾♂️
Specifically, the Madonna-Whore complex - the tendency of men to place women into mutually exclusive categories: the typical wife vs hoe separation.
It’s a form of woman-policing that most men don’t realize they do, but should work against perpetuating it.
Fellas, why sometimes our vice does be seeing women do things we will never want our girlfriends doing? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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The fact that people think Sex Ed is just about sexual intercourse is a big part of why we need Sex Ed lol
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I always tell some of my friends that if we had right to carry in Trinidad that I’d likely get killed and they always look shocked.
Every law abiding black person knows what I’m talking about.
We still deciding if racism is good or bad in Trinidad. Let’s not go down this path.
Do you support the Opposition Leader's call for home owners to "light up" intruders?
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If I’m being honest, I had a rel damn good time lmao — I was so drunk I take a 200 allRiDi home forgetting I come with a maxi 😭
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just giving up thanks for asking
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Once upon a time Trinidad didn’t have google maps navigation enabled and I was like hm this is strange so I contacted a google engineer/one of my mentors (who was also trini) and was like why and he was like oops error on our part and the next week it was enabled
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Yesterday, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 hit 30% of our population with at least 1 dose.
We’re rapidly approaching 50% of the vaccine-eligible population 🎉🎉🎉
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I wonder how many of these countries that these vaccines would be donated to would have just preferred to buy them and receive them months ago
Feels very disingenuous to monopolize vaccine purchases and then say “we are benevolent we will donate what we blocked you from buying”
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Something about cotton notes not being accepted by businesses while it’s still legal tender feels… illegal
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The original name of Princes Town was Savana Grande, and the name was only changed after Prince Albert and Prince George each planted a poui tree there, which apparently survives to this day.
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I am going to reiterate this for the timeline
Horning is not Polyamory.
Horning is not Polygamy.
Horning is not an open relationship.
They are *fundamentally* not the same thing.
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Ill come back to say:
Is not the money, and even with the crime a lot of people are willing to stay. What really drives them away is seeing incompetent people hold jobs that you’re more than for. It’s the nepotism and office politics. It’s —
“Not only is there a loss in the income that they can generate for the economy, but also the tax revenues they could have contributed are lost..."
—Dr Vaalmikki Arjoon, economist
Read more...
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People love to say 😍😍😍 The Old Trinidad 😍😍😍 and then point at European style houses that slave masters lived in
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For those confused in the qrt - it’s dehumanizing language.
You’d often see someone say white women and black females in the same conversation. Females is used pejoratively, or when bringing about a negative/neutral point.
It erases the humanity of the subject.
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Yesterday, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 hit 20% of our population with at least 1 dose.
This is about 28.4% of our adult population.
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No bc why that bag of potstickers in PriceSmart went from 60 sumn dollars to ONE HUNDRED TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO DOLLARS in less than a year?
I ready to start picketing in front of PriceSmart
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So alyuh, who decide the baked pie shapes? Like why is a cheese pie square but a potato pie a triangle?
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Today, we’re launching
@ThePicongParty
.
We are a small team of freelancers that want to address the
fragmentation of political and economic data in Trinidad and Tobago.
We want to make you a more informed voter, but more importantly, a more informed citizen.
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I eh forget when alya was riding m*chel dick so hard that alya let SAVANNAH GRASS lose Road March last year
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Anyways, get your Astrazenica or Sinopharm shot please and doh study these people lol
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I only recently realized this but is scotia is the only bank in Trinidad where I can deposit actual cash in the ATM and have it reflected in my account immediately?
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Why do so many places in Chaguanas not take linx? Why do so many places in Trinidad not take any form of card payment in the year of 2022?!?!?!
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I think the next hill I will die on is that Turkey actually tastes good y’all just don’t know how to cook it
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...behind why our ancestors were enslaved, dragged across the ocean, beaten, killed, raped, babies heads crushed, all to provide free labor for a system that their descendants are...
*checks notes*
Still at the bottom of 🤪🤭
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So much of straight men’s sexual pleasure is limited by… well… unnecessary homophobia lol
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There’s this habit we have in Trinidad where if something doesn’t work well/doesn’t make sense — we say “only in Trinidad” and I find myself recently saying a lot “actually, in quite a lot of places lol”
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We also need to get rid of the idea that local should mean cheap.
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Why is islandetickets operating in Trinidad and not accepting TTD*
In the whole FOC/Credit Card debate I haven’t seen anyone two important questions - Why in 2022 are we so cash dependent? Why all our Visa Debit Cards can’t be used for online transactions?
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Have you ever been so in love with someone it makes you cry just thinking about it?
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If you can get the vaccine, get vaccinated. Period. End of talk. Full stop. Punto Final.
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And I say no to your tax exemptions yet here we are
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A women’s only gym
If you can’t tell Djs which v cut stockings to buy who going to win the Road March?
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Vote an a vote an a vote an a vote
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The more I learn about Exxon and Guyana the more I feel sorry that the Guyanese people have been so deeply deceived
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No but outside of woodbrook, and maybe Diego Martin, Trinidad is not walkable at all it is kind embarrassing
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The reaction is never “let’s make our i institutions better” but always “let’s give up on them”
I honestly don’t know what it would take for us to get out of that mindset.
Nationalism and this unrequited love for Britain and the USA will be the death of us in the West Indies.
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If you get/have at least 1 shot of a COVID-19 vaccine as of today, you are in the first 10% of people in the world to get the vaccine
If you are fully vaccinated as of/before today, you’re in the the first 5% of the world be fully vaccinated
Let that sink in
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Bringing back these old pride pics from your resident trini bi guy
Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
#pride
#PrideMonth2021
#BiPride
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Trinidad and Tobago! 🇹🇹
We are on our way out of this! Encourage and educate your friends and family to get vaccinated!
Remember, when faced with misinformation, approach with kindness and compassion.
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Don't compare our childhood v*ccines to this current one they're not the same
Okay Jan, and what exactly prompted the creation of our childhood v*ccines? QUICKLY.
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About 979,300 people have to get the shot in T&T for us to achieve herd immunity.
The eligible voting adult population of T&T (July 2020) was 1,134,135.
Get vaccinated, if not for yourself, for those around you that can’t get vaccinated - to protect them.
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The writing for this season of Trinidad Is Not A Real Place is immaculate ngl
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We still tryna decide if racism is good or bad in Trinidad, meen think this is the direction we wanna go in Trinidad tbh
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As the EBC wraps up results and that recount,
@thepicongparty
will have the names, contact numbers, and emails for all of your MPs on our website, where you can shoot them an email or call with a simple click or tap :)
✅ Be respectful to each other.
✅ Make sure your MP does right by you.
✅ Hold everybody in charge (Gov’t & Oppostion) accountable.
✅ Continue to fight for the T&T you want.
✅ Let your voice be heard.
✅ Continue to educate yourself.
✅ Sanitize.
✅ Wear your mask.
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Trinidad and Tobago is not nearly enough of a progressive society to facilitate, far less regulate, sex tourism.
We should focus on trying to ‘regulate’ the sex tourism that already happens within T&T, giving sex workers legal recognition, and treating them with respect.
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Companies are really missing the mark with these squid game ads. Like bro, squid game is literally a criticism of YOU
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“Who eats green beans for breakfast, is that what they do here?” - person in quarantine, talking about bodi, who came back on the repatriation flight for nationals
😊
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Alyuh ever notice that most anti-carnival sentiments are almost always implicitly anti-black and/or anti-poor?
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Like can you imagine arguing that we have classism and not racism in Trinidad as a kneegreaux. Can you?
TAP DANCE.
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reminder that homophobia is misogyny and they feed directly into each other
yes this is a subtweet. if it fall in yuh gyaden dais between you and god, take it to the alter but not to me
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Idk if people saying to rename Piarco International after Mr Panday as a dark joke or if they genuinely mean it and at this point I’m too scared to ask
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Haven't decided what to publicly call it yet, but I think that will be a team decision. But I did decide that "Project Blank TT" is gonna be the "parent" of my projects, at least internally.
Introducing Project Caigual, coming very soon.
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I wanna point out that criticizing the police in no way invalidates your entitlement to the services they’re *supposed* to provide.
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Ngl I love this kinda uninhibited happiness, I very happy for sis — she was dancing how she feel inside and nothing more beautiful than that 😭
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All my besties in rships and I love this for them but now I gotta do the only sensible and rational thing and move to a different country and start a new life
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@gottaluvness69
@MrSir____
It’s not an issue of test results, it’s an issue of citing your sources if you’re disseminating information that might trigger mass panic across a population of 1.3 million people.
Asking for source of information isn’t far fetched or unreasonable in this case.
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Twitter is so strange bc it’s a public forum but people only treat it as such when they get positive feedback lol
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But we didn’t see a rise in cases or deaths then Mr. PM.
We can address the politicization of AB’s death from many angles, but it’s irresponsible to link the vigils and gatherings (implicitly) to the current surge.
"The only country I know of in the Caribbean where in the middle of the pandemic the Opposition organised gatherings called vigils – thousands of people for a month, trying to exploit the death of Andrea Bharatt, and you are asking me how we got here?"
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I'm struggling with this.
It's concerning to me that we have started expecting the functions of local government from our central government. It is even more concerning to me that people don't know that there is an ideological difference in these governance roles.
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If you don’t intend to use it to get a scholarship for higher education, I don’t think it’s worth it.
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nobody:
Android Users: WE HAD THAT FEATURE SINCE 1701 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED THE ANDROID GPS to SAIL to the AMERICAS catCH UP APPLE ALWAYS COPYING ANDROID LOL ISHEEP
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I just saw that the math paper 2 was leaked and these people post it online and make it even wider spread and I’m like do y’all know that they’ll make the entire Caribbean rewrite it instead of whatever contained school it was leaked from? Lmaooo
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This is when I’m gonna remind y’all that most of you are grown hard back adults and if you don’t start standing up to your parents and their out of touch beliefs/stances now you’re probably never going to lol
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I cannot believe I just said out loud “lemme go and wash some clothes yes” like an aged Caribbean woman
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Missing you extra today (you were just a part of our society’s collective hallucinations)
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A lot of people on this bird app need to:
- invest in a good therapist
- touch grass
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I wanted to stay so I held the strain and was lucky to have a support system that aided that. But I honestly understand why people would give up.
Trinidad’s brain drain is structural. To the point where it feels like it’s intentional. It feels like the country is pushing you out
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22/41 or even the last 23/41 is not 3/5, a simple majority, required to pass basically anything in parliament lol.
The government literally cannot GET any significant legislation passed without them
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