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Kendra Phagwa fest celebrates 25 years
The Vasant Panchami Utsav, which will be hosted at the Hindu Prachaar Kendra, will be an extra special occasion this year as it will mark the start of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Kendra...
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Gabriel Celene Biswah: Comfortable in her own skin
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneGabriella Celene Biswah’s huge, beautiful eyes are what caught my attention the first time I met her. She got onto the hospital bed, took out her mobile phone, looked around the...
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Can my breast implants leak?
Dr Rajendra S RampaulBreast implants are becoming very popular in the cosmetic world and have been around for over 20 years. It is well known that a lot of women in Latin America and North America seek...
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Make up Artist Nefa Coryat: Inspired by Cancer Patients
Chemotherapy can help save a cancer patient’s life, but it can also wreak havoc on their appearance. Arima-based make-up artist Nefa Coryat has been helping cancer patients look and feel beautiful by...
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Helen Camps, Theatre legend talks Carnival
The Monday Night Forum at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop (TTW) on February 1, featuring Ellen O’Malley Camps—better known as Helen Camps—drew a crowd of admirers, theatre practitioners and the curious,...
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Chacachacare Part 2: Whales and Salt
Chacachacare, in the years immediately before Emancipation (1834), was already in economic decline since its staple crop—cotton—no longer commanded a high market price. Nevertheless, the original land...
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Champs of Steel Great performances—but poor concert management
There were many high points in last Saturday’s Champs in Steel Plus concert, staged by Pan Trinbago Inc at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain. Among them was the masterful performance by the...
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Waiting on the stage, but first
In 1979, I did my first documentary work on Carnival, a multimedia project I did on the side at a PR agency I worked for, with their blessing and financial support. Back then, multimedia was two...
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Classix Productions spreads Carnival joy to Belmont youth
For the past 13 years, Classix Productions mas band has been spreading joy and offering clean, wholesome fun, to young masqueraders in and around the Belmont community. The non-profit junior Carnival...
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The mystery of perfection
I have been looking for the perfect opening line, but the more I search and synthesise what is known, the harder it is to find. To be a great artist, musician or athlete is to relentlessly strive for...
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Designer Chi sells hijabs with sequins, embroidery and even bridal laces
On World Hijab Day, which was on February 1, you didn’t have to be a Muslim to wear one. The designated day was first announced in 2013. Founded by activist Nazma Khan, the story behind World Hijab Day...
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What we say about abuse when we speak out
Having the passion and investiture in both ends of the spectrum, I continue to explore the discourse on childhood adversity as it presents in adult illnesses of mind and body. I’m pursuing it in the...
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River limes do affect fish and their homes
Who in Trinidad doesn’t love a good river lime? Some folks leave from early in the morning to visit their favourite river spot, to picnic, splash around and just have family fun. Others have parties by...
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Dance of the footeaters
Even here where we sip hypocrisy like a slow cocktail and dotishness seems to be a major requisite for office holders, where brutality to children, women and hardback men is par for the course, the...
View ArticleLiam Teague features in live pan and harp recital
For many, the sonorous sounds of the harp conjure images of angels and dreams. Mixed with the equally melodious sounds of the steelpan and one may have a match made in heaven and this is precisely the...
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A weekend of Joy and Sorrow
The weekend past was a bittersweet one, saddened by the deaths of veteran musician Joey Lewis and Japanese pan player Asami Nagakiya but brightened with Saturday night’s staging of Champs of Steel...
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RIP, Joey Lewis
The Savannah was also the venue for Lewis’ funeral on Saturday morning, conducted by Pastor Rawlston Bodkyn of the Enterprise Open Bible Church, and assuming the format of a back-in-times dance and...
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Pantin puts Pan Rhythms & People on display
The Art Society of T&T is pleased to feature new works from local artist Gail Pantin in her latest solo exhibition titled Pan Rhythms & People. The exhibition, which runs from February 20 to...
View ArticleThe 4Cs: Cancer caught early enough can be cured
Avril Harry RN, BSc Oncology NursingOftentimes, women walking through our clinic doors for their annual screening have one prominent fear, that of hearing that they have an abnormal report and they...
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His true calling: Nicholas Gomez moves from cricket to accounting to tutoring
Qualified accountant Nicholas Gomez has switched gears in his professional life and has now found his true calling, that of a tutor. How does one go from being a partner and country manager at a major...
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