AS TOLD TO BC PIRES

My name is Jayron “Rawkus” Remy and I am the communications officer of the St Mary’s College Past Students Union.

I also have day jobs. I’m on TTT’s Now Morning show and an audio technician at the National Academy of the Performing Arts.

I also DJ and do sequencing for 3canal and Freetown Collective. And play bass for Freetown.

I went to Boston for school for two years and lived by my aunt in Cascade for a couple months but, other than that, it’s been Simeon Road, Petit Valley, my whole life.

I agree with BC Pires that Simeon Road has connotations of music, through Sparrow, but also connotations of “potow-pow.”

Luckily, my parents always kept me busy with after-school activities, so I was too tired to lime on the corner.

My dad, John Remy, didn’t live with us, so it was just me and my mom, Allison Eckstein, in the house after my grandmother passed.

But one of my cousins lived right next door. And the daughter of the lady in front was around the same age, so I never felt like what Trinis call a “lonely” child.

My wife, Jadelle Holder-Remy, and I have a five-year-old daughter, Jaleia.

If more come, I will not be opposed. But I’m cool with one child.

Primary school was Holy Name Prep, but that certainly does not mean I’m a Catholic. It means I know a lot about Catholicism.

I was actually baptised Anglican ‘cause both my parents were at the time. I think my mom got baptised as a Baptist or a born-again Christian or something like that.

I started DJing in form four. My father told me, if I was going to do something, I should study it properly. I got accepted into a marketing course and an audio production course. My dad made the sound engineering decision easy because he could only afford one.

University fees! All that I studying when BC Pires talk about having more children!

I don’t believe in religion but I do believe in God. Religion is a control mechanism for society.

People who say they have a deep personal relationship with God scare me a little bit. I find it difficult to believe there’s a man in the sky controlling everything.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m a Pisces that I love water so much.

One of the first things I did after entering CIC in 1997 was join First Trinidad Sea Scouts because I loved swimming.

If BC Pires says what people might call “the cream of Trinidad society” isn’t going to CIC now, but to the American or Canadian or British school, I say, “What makes them the cream?” And that there is still a network of movers and shakers at CIC. People in the “one per cent,” if you call them.

But the more interesting ones for me are the ones who got up and got things for themselves – even if their parents had things. Being leaders or even just being noteworthy in their field.

The guys I went to CIC with who worked hard to make a difference matter