16/02/2026
When you play with FIRE🔥... you don't expect to get BURN❓
A nation embracing, visibly sexualized debauchery festivals as national culture, we would always reap the whirlwind ; high teenage pregnancies, high crime rates, high corruption, etc.
When you make revelry the mainstream culture of a nation, what type of people and workforce do you expect that nation to produced? No wonder a large portion of our students in schools today, are so disruptive and unconcerned about their education - the largest expenditure on our national Budget, might I add.
As a nation, we have perverted the original intentions of Carnival, know as 'Canboulay' meaning 'burning cane', which involved; drumming, dancing and mocking their slave masters.
All these acts was once literally ILLEGAL. After the Abolition of Slavery in 1838, our ancestors took to the streets and used Carnival as a vibrant expression of their civic rights of freedom and of their once supressed ethinic heritage.
On the contrary, today, we are now hearing the most ludicrous definitions of Carnival, from a prominent gender rights group, in a newspaper article this week. They iterated, and I quote, "that Carnival was always a 'fertilization ritual' before the harvest season." WHAT??😠
Now, this is where we turn our history and unique, multiethnic culture into self-indulgent perversions.
Please WATCH the video below 👇 and SHARE with your children and students, THE TRUTH about CARNIVAL... to rid this generation of the ignorance and bankruptcy historical authenticity that Carnival is portrayed as to date in T&T.
Respectfully,
Adrian Clement
Principal/ Educator
EXCEL Success Academy International School
In this episode, we have a heated Parent Discussion: Carnival: Culture or CULT - How much should we Expose our children too in our national culture? Listen, ...
