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Sunshine Award for Blood: ‘We’re all connected’
The T&T Guardian’s own Arts and Entertainment editor Peter Ray Blood has been awarded the 2015 Sunshine Lifetime Achievement Award. T&T Guardian columnist, BC Pires, speaks to him about his...
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By the sweat of his brow
Laziness was a disease worse than the ten plagues of Egypt to my parents.Their work ethic was formidable, and legendary, though they themselves put little value on their capacity for long hours and...
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Symbols of Endurance a strong debut for Griffith
Trinidadian artist Marlon Griffith is creating processional art with a strong base in Carnival mas all over the world. Most recently, he produced Ring of Fire, a 300-person procession on August 9...
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Valuable look at Indo-Caribbean culture
India in Caribbean (subtitled Socio-Cultural Moorings of Diaspora), a collection of essays produced at the behest of Gauri Shankar Guptar, the Indian High Commissioner to T&T, is a most intriguing...
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The price of intolerance
It must have happened 43 years ago, on a chilly morning deep in the Maraval Valley. The sun was still to cut the morning mist on the sporting fields and everything was cool and a bit blue when the car...
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Mastering our strongest muscle
All human beings are born free. We are free to think whatever thoughts we can imagine. We possess the free will to make choices that affect our future. Action is taken when our free will is put into...
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Sri Lanka is so much like home
T&T Guardian sports journalist VINODE MAMCHAN is in Sri Lanka covering the West Indies Test series. He wrote this piece describing the sights and sounds of a country that remind him very much of...
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For fear of backlash, people hurt silently
There’s a Facebook post that’s been around for a while that speaks of a number of mental health/illness issues in a few lines. It does not carry authorship, but every posting requests that the reader...
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Marvellous Marlon
“Lawd a mussy Brudda Big Stones, look see we troubles-na say is nuff pressure de IMFsters nailin Jamdown ‘tween rock an more rock, now nasty sodomite from Minnehapless come win big battyman lickracha...
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Exploring new world facts
1491Charles C MannVintage Books, 2011.ISBN 978-1-4000-3205-1; 553 pages.Kevin BaldeosinghWhat were the Americas like before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492?If you only did History up to...
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My first year tutoring at Alta Maraval
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. Alta tutors who have...
View ArticleEtienne Charles comes home for Creole Christmas
Heralded Trinidadian jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles returns home for a one-night-only concert, Etienne Charles presents Creole Christmas, at the Queen’s Hall in St Ann’s, on November 29. Charles, 32,...
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France a great Empire
In his 1957 book Mythologies, the French philosopher Roland Barthes analysed how social myths are constructed and implanted in the shared public consciousness through the use of words and images that...
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Concert and book to mark UWI parang milestone
Los Parranderos de UWI marks its 35th anniversary this year. The group was formed in 1980 by members of the Spanish Society at the St Augustine campus as a means of exposing the university fraternity...
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Triunity celebrates the children
Universal Children’s Day, which will be observed on November 20, will be commemorated in a unique and special way this year by Full Moon Limited (FML) with the staging of TriUnity Benefit Festival on...
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Culinary students benefit from Nestlé youth initiative
The local arm of global company Nestlé ́recently launched the Nestlé needs YOUth initiative at the Courtyard Marriott in Port-of-Spain. A release said the primary goal is to improve the employability...
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Canadian expert for ICATT/CPA workshop
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of T&T (ICATT) and The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) are collaborating to present a workshop on Employee Performance Management. The...
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RBC Young Leaders take on We Day in Canada
Ten RBC Young Leaders from T&T experienced the trip of a lifetime when they participated in the We Day celebrations in Toronto, Canada. The excited and enthusiastic students were in Canada from...
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5 Star Akil coming different for 2015
With the surname Borneo, and born on Bournes Road, he was born to shine. Son of St James Akil Borneo attended Mucurapo Boys’ RC School, Mucurapo Senior Comprehensive and Diego Martin Secondary and...
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Tsunami of soca
Reigning National Calypso Monarch Roderick “Mr Chuck” Gordon, International Soca Monarch (Power)/Road March champion Machel Montano and International Soca Monarch (Groovy) Olatunji Yearwood all sang...
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