AS TOLD TO BC PIRES

My name is Junior Lewis and I know everything about tyres.

I born Couva but reside Upper Bournes Road, St James, since probably three years old. Couva is my root but is a place I knows nothing about. I can’t remember one day living in Couva.

I could remember my whole life in St James.

I am the third-eldest child and the middle boy of three boys, three girls.

I believe the middle child does end up with all the responsibility and stress from siblings, parents, grandparents, everybody! I cannot recall one time when I wasn’t blamed for something I didn’t do.

Is true I did a lot that I throw blame on my other siblings for – but it was more done to me.

I don’t know if it was the shortest, the easiest, the most memorable name, but any situation take place within the household, my name was always the first to call.

I ent sugar-coating it at all: I was a miserable little fella. To put up with me, you would need to have a

lot of patience and understanding.

I grow up a little too fast. My understanding was always greater than most.

I don’t know what transpire with my parents because first child from the father always supposed to have the father name, then “Junior.”

My parents had it a little mixed up. So my given name, my government name, is just Junior by itself.

Everybody does call me Beard-Man.

My oldest boy, Jahdell Jaquan Lewis, is seven years. The youngest, Jaydon Kyies Matthias Lewis, is two.

These guys are my lifeline. I can’t live without them. I love my boys very much. Everything I do today is preparing for their future, to leave them financially established, financially fit.

Education is the key to life, but if you have a trade, you have twice as much advantage. If you don’t make it to president, prime minister, doctor, lawyer, you could make it as an engineer, a businessman.

Without that solid foundation to stand on, I don’t see how someone could leap from one point to the next, unless you born with a gold spoon in your mouth. I didn’t born with one.

Adam and Eve, the first two people on Earth, somewhere along the line, the story don’t add up. I ain’t no big Bible person.

But I don’t see how a male and a female two sons get married. This gap. Where these two females come from?

Unless the two boys married Eve, the mother. I place that thought aside because the Bible speaks firmly about incest.

I see religion as a separation between the people God create.

No religion shows growth for women other than housewife. All religions say women supposed to sit down home, cook, wash, clean, do everything in the house.

I never see the inside of a university yet.

I played the fool a lot with school. I real regret that.

But, as much as it regretful, it somewhat paid off in a sense for me. To me, is like I ent do bad at all.

The majority of people on the breadline, sitting at home now, is the people with the set of education, behind desk with office and this, that and the other. In the covid situation, most trademen have work still coming.

Around (age) nine