OCOTTO CARRINGTON

1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Otto Carrington

   Simeon Road, Petit Valley... (opens the original)

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   Long be­fore the in­ter­na­tion­al stages, the Car­ni­val crowns and the ti­tle “Ca­lyp­so King of the World”, Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co was part of every­day life on Sime­on Road, Pe­tit Val­ley. Here, his lega­cy is mea­sured not on­ly in records, awards and un­for­get­table ca­lyp­soes. It is re­mem­bered through child­hood foot­ball games, mu­sic drift­ing through the com­mu­ni­ty, box­ing match­es at the Hide­away, Car­ni­val Sun­day gath­er­ings and chil­dren slip­ping in­to hi

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2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Otto Carrington

   Caura: The Village That the Dam Could Not Erase (opens the original)

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   The dam was nev­er com­plet­ed, but the vil­lage Lawrence Pereira knew as a boy had al­ready been bro­ken apart. At 92, Cau­ra’s el­dest vil­lager re­mem­bers peo­ple leav­ing their homes, fam­i­lies scat­ter­ing to oth­er com­mu­ni­ties and a beloved church be­ing de­mol­ished for a project that would be­come one of Trinidad’s most trou­bling colo­nial de­vel­op­ment sto­ries. “They say all the peo­ple from up here have to leave and go,” Pereira re­called. More than eight decades af­ter the Gov

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3. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Otto Carrington

   Arima: Uncovering the Indigenous Story Behind Its Name (opens the original)

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   For gen­er­a­tions, Trinidad and To­ba­go has been told that Ari­ma means “wa­ter”, a mean­ing re­peat­ed in his­tor­i­cal ref­er­ences and pop­u­lar ac­counts, which de­scribe Ari­ma as an Amerindi­an name mean­ing “wa­ter” or “place of much wa­ter”. But Chief of the First Peo­ples of Trinidad and To­ba­go Ri­car­do Bharath is chal­leng­ing that long-held in­ter­pre­ta­tion. Bharath says re­search with­in the In­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ty has failed to es­tab­lish that “Ari­ma” or “Hyari­ma” means

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4. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Otto Carrington

   Rampanalgas: From coconut estates to abandoned dreams, a community looks to its future (opens the original)

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   Along Trinidad’s north-east­ern coast­line, where the At­lantic Ocean meets the vil­lages of Ba­lan­dra, To­co and Matelot, lies Ram­panal­gas, a com­mu­ni­ty whose sto­ry has been writ­ten by the hands of co­conut work­ers, fish­er­men, farm­ers and gen­er­a­tions of fam­i­lies who built their lives around the land and the sea. To­day, the vil­lage is qui­eter than it once was. Some of the es­tates that pro­vid­ed em­ploy­ment have dis­ap­peared, com­mu­ni­ty spaces have de­clined and many youn

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5. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Otto Carrington

   The making of Beetham Gardens (opens the original)

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   Every week­day, tens of thou­sands of mo­torists speed along the Beetham High­way, glanc­ing to­wards Beetham Gar­dens, a com­mu­ni­ty whose name has be­come one of the most recog­nis­able and of­ten mis­un­der­stood in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Yet few know that nei­ther the high­way nor the com­mu­ni­ty was named af­ter one of its res­i­dents. Both de­rive their name from the for­mer Beetham Es­tate, it­self named af­ter Sir Ed­ward Betham Beetham, the last British-born Gov­er­nor of Trinidad and

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