BC Pires
is a barrister by qualification (class of 1984) but, for the last 28 years, has done nothing but write to earn a living. His flagship column, Thank God It’s Friday, has appeared in either the Trinidad Guardian or the Trinidad Express since Ash Friday, 1988. He has written about film from an informed lay perspective for the same period and is as close as the cricket-playing West Indies gets to a film critic (though he refuses that label). He has written for many publications, including the London Sunday Observer and the London & Manchester Guardian. Since 2010, his personality-based feature, “Trini/’Bago to D Bone” has been appearing in the Trinidad Guardian. Since 2002, he has been the editor of Cré Olé, the Trinidad & Tobago annual restaurant guide.This week’s TGIF, Trini to d bone and BC on TV
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What You Saying, Dog?
Photographs by Mark Lyndersay.
My name is Shane Sheppard and my dog Bailey goes everywhere with me.
I come from Maraval. We’re a big extended family, plenty cousins. But, at home, it’s just four of us. My sister, Savannah – Bailey started off as her dog but she’s now the family pet. And my dad, Scott, and my mum, Rachel.
I went to St Andrews and then I did form one at CIC [College of the Immaculate Conception]. I transferred to Fatima because, most of the time, the teachers wouldn’t come. At parents-teachers meetings, about four of the 12 subject teachers would come. Fatima boys were getting real homework all then. So I switched. But I still didn’t like school. Not at all.
I played U-16 football for Queen’s Park Cricket Club but not for Fatima. It was good but I didn’t really enjoy it.
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