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There are se­ri­ous is­sues that I would have want­ed to dis­cuss to­day. How­ev­er, it’s Car­ni­val Mon­day as I write and Things That Mat­ter for to­day’s (Car­ni­val Tues­day) pub­li­ca­tion.

In a few min­utes I head to Bel­mont to meet up with the fan­cy sailor band Bel­mont Ex­ot­ic Styl­ish Sailors (D’ Bess). It’s in full-on car­ni­val mode.

Car­ni­val is what it is: an in­tru­sion in­to care­ful­ly planned sport sched­ules. It’s just a fact of Trinidad and To­ba­go life. It’s part of T&T cul­ture. Car­ni­val, like our sport, speaks to who we are as a peo­ple, a so­ci­ety, a na­tion.