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Taofik Lucas-Walker, Superstar
My name is Taofik Lucas-Walker and I play the part of Jesus Christ in the play version of the movie The Thorn.
I love the name my mom gave me, more so its meaning. Taofik means “blessing, good luck” in Arabic and that definitely describes my life. People say, “How do you spell that? What a weird name!” And then they say, “I’ve never met anyone with that name… Oh, wait, that’s kinda cool!” My friends just call me “T.”
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My name is Dr Everold Hosein and I am the political leader of the Green Party, the least well known political party in Trinidad and Tobago.
I was born many, many years ago in the small sugarcane village of California, where everybody mind your business. My father, a tailor, and my mother, a seamstress, had six children and a two-room barrack house. No pipe-borne water, no electricity. Not sure they finished primary school. But my father read the newspaper every day and had great debates in his tailor shop and my mother taught me long division with a piece of charcoal and a brown paper bag. We eventually got an upstairs-downstairs house, with water and toilet in the house. Quite an adjustment form the latrine. Every morning I swept the black soot from the Brechin Castle sugar factory off our gallery.
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My name is Ellen O’Malley Camps and I have a new project.
It’s More Special for One O’ We
My name is Destra and no one has been looking forward to Carnival 2023 as much as me.
I’ve been looking forward to this Carnival so much because this year is 20 years since my first album dropped in 2003, 20 years of the iconic song It’s Carnival. Last year we had A Taste of Carnival, which was interesting. And a lot of people enjoyed it and were happy for the relief. But this is the first time since the lockdown we are doing Carnival in a natural way, going to parties and cooler fetes, interacting with people. I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s the Mother of All Carnivals but it’s clearly a special one.
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