Trinidad and Tobago is the first country to celebrate Emancipation Day and this year we will be welcoming the Monarch of the Ashanti Kingdom, The Asantehene, His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, from July 30th to August 5th, 2023.

His Majesty will be the guest of honour at the Emancipation celebrations hosted by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts and the Emancipation Support Committee. He will also offer the Ashanti Diaspora within Trinidad and Tobago the opportunity to meet with him.

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On August 1, 1985 Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 became the first independent country in the world to declare a national holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery.

In Trinidad and Tobago, Emancipation Day replaced Columbus Discovery Day, which commemorated the arrival of Christopher Columbus at Moruga on 31 July 1498, as a national public holiday.

The commemoration begins the night before with an all-night vigil and includes religious services, cultural events, street processions past historic landmarks, addresses from dignitaries including an address from the Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago and ends with an evening of shows that include a torchlight procession to the national stadium.

Dear sweet diary,

I fell in love with a boy,
I fell in love I did
But I don’t know
What love is…
Can you tell me
What love is?
Does it hurt?
Do I smile?
I don’t know anythin
About a feelin,

Should I run away
With him?
Leave all the scarlet letters
Ago?
And just run away
To be married…

I know I’m young
But In love
Every time he’s around
I get coy
Little butterflies flyin

Is this what love looks like,
Feels like?
Oh sweet diary,
Sweet sweet diary,
I feel like a pretty Juliet
Thinkin about her Romeo…

I hope I can keep this
Love lasts longer…
I hope I can feel joy
With him…

I hope so…

Cos I wish upon a star
Somewhere in the sky
There might be a boy
Who would dance with me
At a ball and run away together
In our own love story…

Yes diary
I wish for that…
I wish I can stay in love
With him from the beginnin
To our forever….

Do you think I’m silly
For wishin a true romance
For wishin on a boy feels the same way
About me, too?

You might think
I’m so naive
Being a Disney princess
Being a damsel in distress
Wantin a picture perfect relationship…
While livin in this real world
Where heartbreaks does exist…
Fallin in love with the wrong person does exist…

I’m aware of this
All of this
But this boy
The way he looks at me
My heart went to asylum….
And I’ve never felt this way before

Like he’s my soulmate…
I’d love to run away
With him
Grow old
Together

It’s not all in my head…

He’s the one, sweet diary
He’s the love of my life…

Sincerely,
Young girl In love

💙🫶🏾©️ Kai C. 7-26-23

That love story

That love story
I wanna be in
Every chapter
Every page
That love story
How it pulls my heartstrings
Real tight
And I start to weep
Cos

That love story
Romance novel
Knottin my soul
Into this imagination
Where

It’s always you
My fate tells me it’s you…
Only you
I go down the aisle
Million of lifetimes
Just to say

Yes I do…

Forever in our happy endings….

You’re that love story
I weep…
In wetness of bliss…

🫶🏾💙 ©️ Kai C. 7-26-23

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