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Superwoman gives fans message of strength
After weeks of anxious waiting in lines and searching for tickets, hundreds of teenagers and young adults broke down in tears when they finally got to meet YouTube sensation Lily Singh aka Superwoman...
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Barbados promises a divine Food and Wine Festival
Things heat up in Barbados from November 19 to 22 with the 2015 Food and Wine and Rum festival. Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc presents a delicious affair serving up cuisine by celebrity chefs Marcus...
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Sookals celebrate 50 years
When Dipnarine “Dip” and Goomatee “Anna” Sookal married at the Sangre Grande Warden’s office in October 9, 1965, they paid 24 cents for the marriage certificate and the entire ceremony didn’t cost as...
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Breast care, now is the time to act
Avril Harry Every year, we hear and participate in breast cancer walks and “Pink Campaigns” in the month of October. Everyone dons their pink memorabilia and the buzz is all about breast cancer...
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Wendy's Banking on Tyra's Brand
Interview and photography by Sean DrakesThis week Wendy Fitzwilliam, one of the Caribbean’s most admired beauty pageant winners and businesswomen, invited some stylish comrades, faithful sponsors and...
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Searching for, and Finding Black
Richard Mark Rawlins looks for self-defining references in his latest exhibition Finding Black. In his search, he uncovers childhood memories of meeting Ray Apollon and Randolph Burroughs, experiences...
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Green Screen raises awareness of eco issues
Green Screen—the Environmental Film Series, now in its fifth year, will run from November 2 to 13, with free screenings of movies at Medulla Art gallery, De Nu Pub, San Fernando Hill and other venues....
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IDC warns of shadow IT at M4
Courtney Munroe, the featured keynote speaker at last Thursday’s Microsoft M4 conference at the Hyatt has a lot to say about global ICT trends, but one of his stand out cautions to information...
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Turn the tables on your imagination
“Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” It’s interesting how that old children’s nursery rhyme reflects some very profound existential...
View ArticleTTW hosts another Dinner Theatre on November 7
Trinidad Theatre Workshop (TTW) will hold another of its intimate Dinner Theatre events on November 7. A release said a dinner and drinks at the theatre in Belmont will be followed by a unique,...
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Singing teacher gets big break
Coloratura and lyric soprano Karen Holder, 39, may soon realise her lifelong ambition to show her operatic talents at the Royal Opera House in London, England. Holder was invited by the board of the...
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From mania to depression
It’s Monday as I write this feature, which means I am flirting with my deadline, something that happens regularly these days because of my preoccupations with academia. Having spent a considerable...
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Atlantic inducts ten into 2015 Point Fortin’s Finest
The hard work and diligence of ten newly coined secondary school students from Point Fortin have been rewarded, as they officially became members of Atlantic’s Point Fortin’s Finest Leadership...
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Vintage Calypso on Nelson Island
The National Trust of T&T will present Vintage Calypso on Nelson Island featuring Lord Superior, in commemoration of Calypso History Month. This event takes place from 3 pm to 7 pm on October 31...
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Going beyond Carnival
K2K Alliance, a company started by New York-based twin designers Kathy and Karen Norman, recently launched its fifth Carnival presentation, Searching for Shangri-La, along with the audio book Growing...
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Catching up with the past
I wasn’t really paying much attention when Cinnamon Girl told me she had some good news. I’d just staggered out of a Friday night class on Commonwealth Lit, raging bronchitis ravaging a head further...
View ArticleInaugural ACPCultures+ Creative Networks Event enhances conversation on local...
On Tuesday 20, the recently re-branded Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts facilitated the inaugural ACPCultures+ Creative Networks event, a round-table discussion involving culture...
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Probing the numbers of love
Review by Kevin BaldeosinghHow do you know when you’ve found Mr or Ms Right?Most people would probably give some version of “You just know”. Unfortunately, reliance on intuition in love (or most...
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Returning the fruits of education
This quote by Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the USA’s 36th president Lyndon B Johnson, “Education is a loan to be repaid with the gift of self”, captures what being an Alta tutor is all about. Almost...
View ArticleA Literary Conversation
If musicians make the most intractable interviewees, (because what they have to say is in the music) then writers run a close second, as some of those who attempted to question VS Naipaul at a UWI...
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