Dr. Yardwork Banton

T&T born and bred #HU14Alum #Dentist #FlossYourTeeth #Classof2019 #openwideandsayahh

[Neeks @MsAmbiguous]

looking for multimedia content creators in Guyana and Suriname. I need good quality, fast turnaround and responsive personalities. signal boost please!

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

Oblivious people seem so happy

[Derron Mark Ellies🇹🇹 @DerronElliesPan]

Family, I am badly off.

Financially, I haven't been able to see my way since February.

All I can do is ask that you send any opportunities for performance my way.

I honestly don't want to discuss my full circumstances online... but I do need all the blessings & assistance.

[FRANZ🏴‍☠️ @franzakeem]

I really wish 🇹🇹 could pick up a culture of not littering and illegal dumping , that would be a dream come true

[smv @slimvnsn]

My father's best friend was a man called Uncle Bayo who disappeared from our lives without explanation. I was 12 the last time I saw him. He came to our flat in Gbagada, argued with my father in the bedroom for an hour, and walked out without saying goodbye to me. My father never spoke his name again. Neither did my mother. Uncle Bayo became a silence with a shape.

Twenty-six years passed. I was in Philadelphia for a conference. A networking dinner at a hotel downtown. Across the room, a man about my father's age caught my eye and held it too long. He approached me during dessert and said my surname like it was a question he already knew the answer to.

We sat in the hotel lobby until 2am. He told me the story my father never did. They had started a construction company together in the early 90s. It had failed because of a contract dispute with a senator. The senator had paid only half the money and refused the rest. The debt had crushed them. Uncle Bayo had blamed my father for trusting the senator. My father had blamed Uncle Bayo for not reading the fine print. The friendship had shattered. Two men who had been closer than brothers had become strangers over something neither of them could control.

Uncle Bayo had moved to America after the falling out. He had built a new life, a new business, a small contracting firm in West Philly. He had married a Ghanaian woman and had two daughters. He had never returned to Nigeria. He had never called my father. He had assumed the silence was mutual.

I asked why he approached me now. He said he recognised my face because I looked like my father at 30. He said he had been waiting for decades to see that face again, to explain something that was never about betrayal. He said the argument had been about shame, not money. Both men had felt they failed each other. Neither had known how to say it.

I called my father from the hotel room. It was 3am in Lagos. He answered on the second ring, voice thick with sleep and alarm. I told him who I was sitting with. The line went quiet. Then my father did something I had never heard him do. He cried. Not softly. The kind of crying that comes from a place words cannot reach.

Uncle Bayo flew to Lagos 3 months later. They met at the same flat in Gbagada. They sat in the same living room where the argument had happened. They didn't re-litigate the past. They just sat together, two old men with white hair and matching hypertension medication, and let the silence heal.

My father died last year. Uncle Bayo spoke at the funeral. He said the greatest thief in life is not money or failure. It is the belief that there is always more time.

Call them. The debt is not theirs. It is yours.

[moesha @yunclesage]

I’m not gonna lie I hate being asked more than 4 questions consecutively shit start feeling mad federal

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

Da voice rel special

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

My body clearly missed the work toilet while i was on vaca

[Iris Seraphina  @iris_seraphina]

I didn’t realize these were guide strips for the blind…good to know!! 👀

[DJannix🇹🇹 @DJannixx]

I’d faster snort scorpion pepper dust than have to commute to Port of Spain every morning. Idk how you lot do it

[EO @_ezeokolorie]

Having plaque buildup between teeth tells me all i need to know about you

[Nichelle @nichelleromane]

🚨SIGNAL BOOST🚨
Stolen outside of JOTL

[mc. @maiigician]

What is corporate Trinidad’s obsession with your time of arrival and departure?? Before you focus on the achievement of deliverables and targets dais what you studying???

[Aquille @AquilleAli]

Hit me up ASAP if seen! 🙏🏽📲

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

@J0Ming Whatsapp bro

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

@AceThommy 🔥🔥🔥 say less

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

Big shoutout to that person who flashed their lights for the speed trap. You are an angel

[Dr. Yardwork Banton @chiwale92]

Da sun moving like it vex with everybody

[Vitus @holl4fs]

im not a fan of forcing things...i will gladly leave you alone