After reading the tale of John Boysie Singh, 20th-century Trini pirate of the Caribbean, methinks Keira teams up with Parminder again, maties:
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Johnny Dhillon? |
John Boysie Singh, usually known as “the Rajah,” “Boysie” or “Boysie Singh” … had a long and successful career as a gangster and gambler before turning to piracy and murder. For almost ten years, from 1947 until 1956 he and his gang terrorized the waters between Trinidad and Venezuela. They were responsible for the deaths of many fishermen — the number has sometimes been put as high as 400. Their technique was generally to board fishing boats, murder their crew, and steal the engine which they would later sell in nearby Venezuela after sinking the boat.
Boysie was well-known to everyone in Trinidad. He had successfully beaten two charges of murder before he was finally executed after losing his third case. He was held in awe and dread by most of the population and was frequently seen strolling grandly about Port of Spain in the early 1950s wearing bright, stylish clothes. Mothers and nannies would warn their charges: “Behave yourself, man, or Boysie goyn getchu, oui!” [Link]“Bhagrang Singh, his father, came from de Punjab. He was a member of the Hindu tribe dey call de Chutri; a tribe dat was known for its bravery in war. While he was in India, Bhagrang Singh kill a man of high rank and run to Trinidad to save he neck. He didn’t come here and call heself Maharaj for people to tink he was Brahmin. He was a warrior. When he came to Trinidad he brought wid him a cavalry saber made of fine steel. Artistically, the handle of the saber was shape into a falcon’s head with red stones for eyes. Dat was de warrior in he…
“Boysie Singh didn’t go to no UN to make no appeal. He beat de shit out of dem French Creole boys who feel dey could mess with he and get away wid it. Stay and fight; doah run and moan, like a sissy!“Ah tell yo’ Boysie Singh was a criminal but he was a true true Trini. When he walked to dat hangman’s scaffold he know he was fulfilling he karma. He know he had to die a noble death, at home, a hero in his own eyes rather than a nemacarman, running all over de globe talking some shit about what some Worldwide Recalcitrant Indian Organization go do and not do.” [Link]
Boysie would smuggle bandits into Venezuela without papers, making a laughingstock of the police. They took all the cash they could carry–these outlaws–and jewels, too. Nor was there any possibility of return to Trinidad, two facts that warmed them to Boysie… Then, when the sea was smooth and calm again, and rum had loosened tongues and chased away the fear of the dragon’s teeth, he set upon his customers with his knife. Stabbed them to death, they said, and cut out their hearts for racehorses. Some said, to feed them; others said, to rub on the hooves of racehorses to make them run fast. [Link]
so what did the real one look like?
I’m guessing he was brown 😉 (Didn’t turn up a photo.)
I,m a trini and i love to read about boysie .
Who ever wrote this is a racist idiot, who is glamorising a murderer. You obviously have the IQ of a crapo, if u like trini tings so much