Trinidad & Tobago: Retro BWIA · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

As Trinidad and Tobago's indigenous airline comes to the end of its life (BWIA will cease operations at the end of the year and reopen on January 1 under a new moniker, Caribbean Airlines), Thebookman refers to a BWIA ad from 1972 and says, “Perhaps in a couple of decades, the blend of the peoples of this small Caribbean nation will…have their own identity, and probably their independence.”