Feb 01
In an address to graduating UWI students in Arts and the Humanities, Angela Cropper points to seven negative cultural facets of Caribbean culture and challenges her audience to transcend them. Ms Cropper, ‘a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and the Rest of the World’, recently retired as Deputy Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
The concept of creators and custodians of our culture is not only intriguing; it is complex, wide-ranging, potentially far-reaching, and certainly demanding. It is also fundamental to the future of Trinidad and Tobago and Caribbean society, and to the way in which we contribute to, and engage with, the global civilization of which we are a part…
