Comments on: Tales from Grenada, Part II (or Trini Geography)

By: Caroni Bird Sanctuary, Trinidad — Lifespan of a Chennette

Caroni Bird Sanctuary, Trinidad — Lifespan of a Chennette — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:23 +0000

[...] There may be some who might believe that Caroni is “South” Trinidad, but if you look at the map, it’s in the Northern half of the island. Those of us from south of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway* tend to regard Caroni as Central [...]

By: Touristing in Georgetown, Guyana — Lifespan of a Chennette

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:30:45 +0000

[...] as divided by the Demerara River, are almost as bizarre to my linear-thinking mind as the Trini Geography concept of “East [...]

By: Lifespan of a Chennette Tales from Grenada, Part III (Caribbean Star vs Virgin Atlantic) «

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:18:23 +0000

[...] the nice taxi-trip (see Tales, Part II) I ended up in the airport at Point Salines with familiar faces. The Caribbean Star crew that [...]

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:53:32 +0000

I’m pretty sure my students know. After all, I’ve promised them many times to email their assignment grades and still haven’t done it.

By: chennette

chennette — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:48:27 +0000

brilliant idea – glad to know you are helping me out with trivialities rather than say, marking papers…
if only your students knew
but, seriously, thanks – never thought of it!

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:09:10 +0000

Maybe you should put one of the banner/bighugelabs/widgets instead of the flickr widget from wordpress?
it’s an image?
and it probably updates?

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Trinidad & Tobago: Trini geography

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:57:41 +0000

[...] Chennette has an interesting commentary on the average Trinidadian’s skewed vision of cardinal points: “Maybe it was growing up in a mathematical family, but I always viewed Trinidad as more or less a rectangle with some squiggly bits at the corners. Which means that I imagined lines bisecting the island straight across the middle, vertically and horizontally. . . .“ Georgia Popplewell [...]

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:29:12 +0000

People who live in “North”, “West”, “South” and “East” are stooopid!

It’s only people in Central who have a clue. Just wait til Chaguanas gets bigger then we’ll be just like you!

By: The TriniGourmet

The TriniGourmet — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:25:18 +0000

hee

By: chennette

chennette — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:27:30 +0000

yah – Eastern Main Road is a big clue, but my brain still doesn’t work that way without a wilful nudge!