Be a champion for change. Help stop violence against women. Watch this breathtaking documentary. Don't miss out this Saturday March 26th @ 7pm. Tickets are only TTD100. Watch the clip for information.
As part of the International Men's Day, I was interviewed on TV6. Thanks to Rhondall Feeles the President of the Single Father's Association of Trinidad and Tobago for inviting me. We were promoting the documentary I produced entitled, "The Hidden Crime: Violence Against Men" which will premier tonight @ 7pm on zoom. It is not too late. Pay your TTD100 and get the zoom link.
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Interview on TTT with Filmmaker Oyetayo R. Ojoade discussing The Madonna Murti
Interview on TTT with Filmmaker Oyetayo R. Ojoade discussing The Madonna Murti
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When the Ortoire River Glows
Thousands of years before its European rediscovery, and long before our ancestors came to these islands, by choice or in chains, Trinidad and Tobago was already home to many.
In a time beyond our memory, the Amerindians were settled and living on every coast, walking and canoeing routes that crisscrossed the islands, to forage and fight, building a civilisation that would be exterminated by a wave of conquerors.
Among the places settled by the First Peoples was an area near the mouth of Trinidad’s longest river, which the Spanish named the Guataro, but what would come to be called the Ortoire, its Amerindian name. The river spills into the Atlantic Ocean on Trinidad’s east coast near Point Radix, where once upon a time, the traveller headed from the north could only cross the river by dugout, and later by mule-drawn ferry, in order to get to 19th-century Mayaro and places further south.
A similar crossing of the Ortoire River many kilometres upstream had to be attempted by those coming to Mayaro from the west and using what was then a trace (cut in 1850) from the direction of The Mission of Savannah Grande (later to be named Princes Town).
Unknown to all except the intrepid explorer, this river is navigable for most of its 30 meandering miles (50 kilometres), and drains a sizeable portion of Trinidad’s south east quadrant. To follow it would take you halfway across the island, deep into the forest and past countless tributaries
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You may not know that the river had been surveyed as early as the 1850s (the headwaters followed all the way to Monkey Town near Princes Town) to determine if it was feasible to develop a “sea to sea” transportation link.
It is also little known to outsiders that the river, which overtopped its banks ten years ago and devastated the region, has long provided a bounty of cat fish, tarpon (grantiki) and salmon to people living along its banks as far back as 1910, along the road which started off as a trail to get to the ced