Author: Debbie Jacob

Debbie Jacob IF I COULD find a sport that offers more life lessons than American football, I would become its number one fan. But this is the game I watch as an anthropologist because I am fascinated by cultural change. When I see losing teams like the Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders […]

THERE’S AN art to coming off as an ordinary person when you’re really special beyond all measure, and Mark Loquan has mastered that feat. Receiving the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ORTT) sheds some light on his accomplishments in science, industry and music, but there is no way to truly appreciate the […]

Debbie Jacob I GREW up in a family of Democrats and Republicans. My uncle, who worked at Westinghouse assembling washing machines, was a Democrat. My dad and both grandfathers who worked as a plasterer and factory worker were Republicans. I’m not sure of my grandmothers’ political affiliations, but my mom was an independent. I know […]

Debbie Jacob WHEN THE Hugh Wooding Law School recently selected Israel Khan as one of seven lawyers to be honoured at its 50th-anniversary celebrations, I was reminded of the first story I wrote about a man acquitted of murder charges. He was one of Khan’s clients. The young man had stood on the street and […]