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Trinidad & Tobago: Tree Cutting, Belt Tightening

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 16 January 2009 20:59 GMT

“The airport, which already looks like a sterile wasteland with all the grey paint and icky tiles, now bereft of the softening influence of vegetation. It looks like you've arrived in some place other than the Caribbean”: Coffeewallah thinks Trinidad is more like La La Land these days.

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