I am a writer and media producer based in Trinidad and Tobago. Follow me on Twitter @JanineMFranco.
Latest posts by Janine Mendes-Franco from November, 2014
Jamaican Sexism Flexes Its Muscles as Gender Gaffes Stir Public Outrage
Most recently, the misogynistic ideas of some of Jamaica's leading men, in both the public and private sectors, has entered the public spotlight.
‘When I Think of Trinidad, I See It in Technicolor': A New Music-Theatre Work Takes the Stage
Global Voices continues its conversation with the show's librettist, Caitlyn Kamminga, and its composer, Dominique Le Gendre.
A Starboy is Born as Trinidad and Tobago Gets a New Work of Music-Theatre
GV sits down with some of the people behind "Jab Molassie," a daring new play premiering this Thursday in Port of Spain.
A Stretch of Asphalt Where Our Freedoms Should Be
Somewhere, lost in the brouhaha over a controversial stretch of highway in Trinidad, a protestor's hunger strike and misinterpretations of a key report, is the real point of it all.