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Minshall magic in Laird’s Paradise Lost
Every day of the T&T Film Festival, T&T Guardian columnist and film writer, BC PIRES, will be picking a Film of the Day. Pires has been writing about film from an informed lay perspective since...
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Christmas is here, start de parang
It seems as though it was just yesterday we were singing “feliz navidad” but there are just 104 days left before Christmas Day. In fact, one radio station, which hosted an all day Christmas in July...
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Celebrating heroes, pioneers, role models
T&T recently celebrated 53 years of Independence on August 31. We now turn our attention to celebrating our attainment of the status as a Republic 39 years ago on August 1, 1976, an occasion that...
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Little gymnast makes it big
She skips, flips and jumps all the time. Even in her sleep, it is said, her small body jerks as if in constant motion.Little Sydelle Hinds looks me over with huge, beautiful brown eyes, her long Dougla...
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President’s House
One of the greatly depressing symbols of our fall and decline as a nation is that to date we cannot repair the official home of the President of the Republic of T&T whose roof caved in and remains...
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A royal revolution —The Queen, the Princess & the Duchess
Three of this country's female music celebrities—Calypso Rose (McCartha Sandy-Lewis), Heather Mac Intosh and Anne Fridal—are joining forces this month to present a concert series titled The Queen, the...
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Music and the State
The State wants an exportable music industry: one that creates sustainable jobs, earns foreign exchange and ultimately develops the intellectual property stockpile for future and continuous economic...
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Let’s do it for the Children’s Ark
Yes. I know your head is still steaming, in the post-September 7 reboot.Here is how you can cool down, love up and show your true republican stripes and remind yourself that country comes first.This...
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Nature behind our nature
Can you see nature at work behind our nature? It’s obvious. Here is a fresh perspective on a constantly mutating world. Perhaps it is one that is both timeless and new. Many ancient cultures sought to...
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A digital agenda for the PM
Almost a decade ago, I sat in a meeting at a state agency explaining the concept for an information kiosk that I believed could make a remarkable contribution to the legacy of that organisation.One man...
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The Journey of the Japanese Pheonix
Ray Funk and Andrew MartinWho would have thought that a Japanese steelband would be able to come to Trinidad, compete in an international Panorama - playing a non-Calypso - and still place in the top...
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Beckles hosts orientation
Attorney Keith Beckles, director of studies at K Beckles & Associates, addressed new students at his school’s orientation session on September 12, a release said. In his address, he spoke about the...
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Plummer to serve God in song
“I just wish everyone around me can experience this joy that I have,” the words of a veteran calypsonian of 30 years known for her big hits like Woman is Boss and Nah Leaving, a former chronic smoker,...
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Government must address inaction, underinvestment
For the years of exploring mental health and mental illness as global phenomenon, I’ve learned a great part of the problem with governments’ inaction is politicians’ personal prejudice and overarching...
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Dana for Miss Globe 2015 pageant
A Standard Five teacher is T&T’s representative for the Miss Globe 2015 pageant. Dana De-Frence sat down for an interview with the T&T Guardian last week and spoke of her dreams of being...
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Are you taking too many photos
We’ve all done it at one time or another: whipped out our smartphone to snap a picture of a sunset that is too beautiful to forget, or surreptitiously photographed a particularly impressive dish at a...
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CCC youths welcome bpTT math incentive
Twenty-two young men and women enrolled with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) have grasped the opportunity to pursue mathematics at examination level as a result of a collaborative effort between...
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The weirdness of Paris
Paris is weird. Perhaps not the first words you’d see in a travel guide about the city of love.Although it’s the third most visited city in the world, most people experience Paris in three days—taking...
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It’s never too late to learn
As Alta continues annual student registration at classes across Trinidad, we rally our readers to share the message of our anti-stigma campaign: No shame. Go brave. You can read. Students who...
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Moving to the Left
“You write for a certain type of reader,” he confided at the end of the first session of a Comparative Literature course, when I recognised his face from a previous class. “But I always read your...
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