Trinidad & Tobago: Pompoms  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“I thought for a second I was hallucinating. Like I think I’m hallucinating when I hear some wild rumour that Papa Patos wants to invoke the Terrorism Act during the Summit of the Americas to stop people from protesting. I mean it can’t be, can it? Cheerleaders in cricket? Why, that’s like making Trinidad mas in sweat shops in China”: Attillah Springer is still grappling with her “righteous pompom indignation”.