Andre Bagoo

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Articles

"The bullying that dare not speak its name"

Oct 13, 2024 | newsday.co.tt | Andre Bagoo

Commentary THERE IS one fact about bullying in schools you will not hear religious leaders, politicians or their ilk talk about. That fact is this: 28 per cent of students – one in four – are bullied on the basis of their perceived sexual orientation or gender expression, according to one of the last surveys on this issue.
"Lawrence Duprey’s many faces"

Sep 1, 2024 | newsday.co.tt | Andre Bagoo

News EVERYTHING King Midas touched turned to gold. And, for a while, so it seemed with Lawrence Duprey, who died this month at 89. Under his reign, the CL Financial (CLF) empire grew to include at least 52 companies in at least 28 countries, with a reported asset base that moved from $27.5 billion in 2003 to $101 billion in 2007. It employed 9,886 people. It held the largest indigenous insurance company in the Caribbean, Clico.
Case of the Diamond Reserve account – Panday’s integrity trial - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Jan 11, 2024 | newsday.co.tt | Andre Bagoo

Features THE BANK account number was 39036189. He gave several reasons for not declaring it. At first, in reply to correspondence from the Integrity Commission seeking explanation, he did not seem to know whether the joint account existed since he was awaiting a reply from UK bank officials about it. Then, he said he believed the account was his wife’s and that it was money held in trust for the education of their children.
New Caribbean Realism

Oct 21, 2023 | the-orb.org | Andre Bagoo

Art by Florence SykesAndre Bagoo reviews The God of Good Looks (Breanne Mc Ivor, Penguin Fig Tree, 2023) and Mrs. B (Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Peepal Tree, 2014). ... The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.
Masculinity, an anthology of modern voices

Aug 31, 2023 | brokensleepbooks.com | Ian Duhig |Michael Pedersen |Andre Bagoo |Pádraig Ó Tuama

Released 31st January, 2024 // 326 pages // 978-1-915760-87-6 // RRP £ 16.99Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices is a book of poetry which aims to showcase the diversity of what it means to be a man and what it means to embrace its multitudes. These poems emphasise that masculinity is not a monolithic concept, but a dynamic, evolving force that can be shaped by culture, society, and personal experiences.
Not all of Cazabon’s paintings have been found

Jun 18, 2023 | poems.poetrysociety.org.uk | Andre Bagoo

This poem was published in The Poetry Review, winter issue, 2016. You can find out more about this issue, and buy a copy, online. "A poem is a Carnival costume. Sometimes the costume is skimpy and reveals the poet. Sometimes there is a lot of fabric and embellishment. Always, the body’s movement must be discernible. There must be a human being beneath. Otherwise, you’re pulling a float as a donkey might pull a cart.
"St Vincent PM’s history on hanging not so clear-cut"

Apr 23, 2023 | newsday.co.tt | Andre Bagoo

News Andre Bagoo ONLOOKERS of last week’s crime conference, at which Dr Ralph Gonsalves made a startling call for the resumption of hanging, might have come away feeling the St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister has had a clear-cut, unequivocal history of supporting the death penalty. He boasted while he was a Roman Catholic and the Pope and his mother were against hanging, he was of a different persuasion.