A headline can be a matchstick. This is about who holds the flame and who refuses to be burned by it. Headlines can be incendiary by design. HOLA! USA certainly knew what it was doing with this one: “Rihanna recruits Elon Musk’s trans daughter, Vivian Wilson, for her Valentine’s Day campaign.” Enough
Who Is Running the Country? Asking for the USA, for Latin America, and Yes—Trinidad and Tobago A Grace Notes Witness from the Plebian Periphery I write not as a constitutional scholar or a geopolitical tactician,but as an ordinary onlooker—one of the many categorized as less adjudicated,less powerful, less billionaire, less
There is something almost liturgical about the way celebrity is being consecrated in this moment. Figures like Amber Rose and Nicki Minaj are not being engaged as thinkers or strategists, but positioned as symbols anointed voices in a Republican spectacle that repeatedly mistakes attention for authority. Amber Rose, whose public
As is now the norm, there is scarcely a day that passes without some calamitous media barrage tied to the mania surrounding Donald J. Trump. Foreign entanglements. Security escalations. Congressional theater. Healthcare costs climbing beyond reach. Cultural institutions renamed. Sensational files dangled for political titillation. Institutions once regarded as formidable
History shows how small nations are destabilized through division, and Trinidad and Tobago now faces a moment demanding clarity, unity, and national stewardship. Grace Caroline WalkerGrace Notes Trinidad and Tobago in case you missed it Trinbagonians near and far, on land, sea, and sky, are holding space: in prayer, in
This essay is not written from expertise or institutional authority. It is written to assert what demands attention and invite reflection. From the position of a layperson who has been, by her own admission, insufficiently engaged in the long arc of Israel–Palestine oversight even as the United States and the
Impeachment is a process. We know this.We have tried this before. Several times. And still — the scions remained. Or perhaps more accurately, the dethroned never truly lost power. Titles shifted. Seats changed. Influence did not. So when we reach reflexively for impeachment as the answer, we must also admit
Yes U.S. military flights have been cited at Trinidad and Tobago airports, and we should not look the other way. According to Stabroek News, United States military transport aircraft recently arrived at Piarco International Airport and Crown Point Airport, following formal transit permission granted by Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Foreign
On December 17, 2025, the President of the United States delivered a nationally televised address from the White House. A presidential address is not a campaign rally, not a press conference, and not a social media post. It is an act of state delivered under constitutional authority and constrained by law, evidence,
Before I go any further, let me acknowledge something openly: my voice here is not partisan. It is not rooted in who I like or dislike, nor in allegiance to a political party or ideology. It comes from five decades of living in this country, arriving here as an immigrant and watching
Written By Grace C. Walker