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They said you guys abandoned us for five years. you might as well take that five acres of land and stay there. so there is no closure to decedents like us, who have not found any connection between our families in india. >> anthony: soft paratha dough cooked on a massive tawah and slatred gee. but here, just as its reaching peak flakiness, it gets a beatin. >> keshav: here they call it buss up shut which means burst out of shirt. >> anthony: burst up shirt. >> man in white shirt: yeah because th...

Steal some food, but when you see that kind of violence being enacted you have to ask yourself, its not just somebody saying "i need this table cloth im going to take this" no "i want this table cloth, and youve had this table cloth for too long so you know what im going to take this out on you, this is going to happen or thats going to happen" and thats what were seeing now. i mean how long can people put up with something before they decide this is enough. you know what i mean? >> anthony: wou...

>> anthony: and with corruption, poverty, hopelessness, add some radical ideology to that and trinidad has proved relatively fertile ground for the recruitment of isis fighters and terrorist. >> mark: its quite alarming, trinidadian nationals being one of the highest in the region going to syria and there are over 100 on the list. a fbi list. they feel that its the calling from isis that they need to go. >> anthony: so whats the future look like what do you think? hows it going to go? >> mark: w...

Series of riots they insisted were inspired by african drumming. one improvises in such circumstances and all those oil drums were repurposed. >> anthony: this is phase two. one of only 11 large steel bands taking part of the worldwide competition, panorama that happens in a few weeks, winner gets $150,000. they have taken home the prize seven times in no small part due to this man lenox "boogsie" sharpe. ♪ the rehearsal space is called a pan yard and if youre lucky somebody nearby is making t...

Terrorist. >> mark: its quite alarming, trinidadian nationals being one of the highest in the region going to syria and there are over 100 on the list. a fbi list. they feel that its the calling from isis that they need to go. >> anthony: so whats the future look like what do you think? hows it going to go? >> mark: wow thats a loaded question. there are really good people here in trinidad. really, really good people that could make a difference on all fronts. if we go down the path that were go...

Gave return passage or land. >> chan: so when the first indians took the option to go back, they couldnt find their families. and those who found their families were rejected because they said you guys abandoned us for five years. you might as well take that five acres of land and stay there. so there is no closure to decedents like us, who have not found any connection between our families in india. >> anthony: soft paratha dough cooked on a massive tawah and slathered in gee. but here, just as...

World. trinidad continues to be a major transshipment point for drug dealers to get that product out to north america and europe. so you find now the explosion of violence that we have is for those that are involved locally with the drug trafficking, theres fight for territory. >> anthony: an estimated 3.5 billion dollars worth of narcotics move through the caribbean each year. trinidads porous borders, busy port, proximity to venezuela and the inevitable corruption that comes with numbers and t...

Keegan taylor studied fighting styles from around the world before coming around to their own, homegrown martial art. >> anthony: now whats legal? >> rondel: whats not legal. >> anthony: or lets say whats not legal? >> keegan: you cant hit to the legs. >> anthony: you cant? oh damn, cause that would be the first thing i think of. im thinking, oh ive got to get that knee in particular. >> keegan: now to be honest in stick fighting, legal and illegal is a concept, but it doesnt stop that kind of s...

Port of spain a per capita murder rate higher than detroit, oakland or chicago. mark bassant covers the subject of drugs and gang related violence as an investigative journalist. >> anthony: people want you dead. >> mark: you can say that. >> anthony: who wants you dead do you think? >> mark: well, two years ago i did a piece about the state prosecutor dana seetahal was shot dead. >> mark: when state prosecutor dana seetahal left the ma pau car park just before midnight on may 3rd, she had no in...

Anything. i can whine on you and it doesnt mean i want to take you home you know. its something thats really about freedom and expression of self and its something that crosses ages and races, ethnicities, especially during carnival time you see people from high status and people who are you know lower class. they both whine together you know barriers are no longer there. its all just a mix of all the different ethnicities and stuff. >> anthony: the faces you see in the street are african, india...