Rudolph Charles remains... The Baddest Desperado

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Rudolph Charles remains... The Baddest Desperado

by Dalton Narine


Photo provided by David Rudder

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - Thirty-seven years ago, Laventille’s Rudolph Charles shuffled off this mortal coil and went out in style - a glam funeral service, his soul encased in the Chariot pans he invented and three religions vying for meager props at his rites on the banks of the Caroni - as an age of innocence was nearing its own death.

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