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Trinidad coffee: highly aromatic and delectable
Coffee may have been first cultivated by the early Spanish settlers who in the 17th century planted cacao in the fertile Maracas Valley of the Northern Range. Coffee, like cocoa, grew well in the cool...
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Montano: Bob Marley Award a dream come true
Soca star Machel Montano has hailed the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) 2016 Bob Marley Award given to him as “a dream come true.” Montano, who has been performing...
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All hail the boot cut
I hear so but I don’t know. But it’s too giggle-icous to keep to myself. My fashion spies tell me that teenagers are using plastic bags to help them slide in and out of their skinny jeans and tight...
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The Grand Dame of Pan
Ursula Tudor is referred to as “a veteran diva of pan” having played the national instrument for the past six decades. She began her romance with pan with Serenaders, led by Sylvan Grant, at Mapp...
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Gayap in the hills: Students learn about plants, wildlife, ecology
“...The rivers crying out!” (drumbeats). “...The mountains crying out!” chanted “Knocker”, the grizzled drummer, as he beat a rousing call-and-response rhythm on his wood and goatskin djembe drum in...
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The year in photos
Some readers of this column might have noticed that I spent a lot of time in 2015 taking photographs with a smartphone. I’d set myself the task from January 1, 2015 of taking five images and posting...
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Students use Sokafit to ace SBA project
An SBA project by five Form Five students at Mucurapo West Secondary School mushroomed into an all-day sports festival that featured TV6’s Sokafit show as the opening act, at the school’s grounds on...
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Is incest really that bad?
There are people who believe that incest isn’t all that bad, especially when it’s between two consenting adults who aren’t having children. Some people are able to justify their actions with the...
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For adults only: La Chapelle examines personal traumas with play
One afternoon in 1989, dance icon Carol La Chapelle met Geraldine Connor and Jemma Allong-Redman, two professional acquaintances with whom she would eventually develop a closer friendship, while...
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Parris the warrior teen
Kayla Parris, 16, is the daughter of Simone Coelho and Jordan Parris, and is a Form Four student at Bishop Anstey High School (BAHS). Resident in Champs Fleurs, she is an inspiring poet who has already...
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The fallacies of recession
Kevin BaldeosinghAs the recession hits T&T harder, more and more nonsense will be spoken about economic matters. Along with Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson (reviewed in this space in...
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Literacy and the economy
Last week, this column revealed that in 1995, eight per cent of people over 15 years of age (which would have equated to 62,000 adults) could not read even three of these words: to, at, love, sun, bet....
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Three T&T writers among CODE’s Burt Award finalists
Three T&T writers are among the six finalists selected from 60 regional submissions of published books and unpublished manuscripts for CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, the only award of...
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Empowerment the key at Vital Voices walk
There is strength in numbers, and anyone participating in the second annual Vital Voices Global Mentoring Walk on March 5, would have been certain of this by the time they were finished with their lap...
View ArticleLove for pan-playing Mayor
Newly installed Port-of-Spain mayor Kerron Valentine received special mention when the Northern Region of Pan Trinbago Inc held its Evening of Appreciation last Friday at the VIP Lounge, Queen’s Park...
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Couva Carnival gets high marks
The Couva Carnival Committee (CCC) has received high ratings for organising “one of the best regional Carnivals” in the country over the years, particularly in 2016, despite the downturn in the economy...
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Jazzing up the Greens
Last Saturday, Production One Ltd (POL) staged one of the best editions of its 14-year-old Jazz Artists on the Greens. Staged at the Wasa sporting facility in St Joseph, the event attracted a large...
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Festival of Drums at the Big Black Box
Elliott Francois is a musician, a drummer actually with rapso band 3Canal for the past 11 years. He is one the people behind Saturday’s Drummerville Rhythm Festival being held at The Big Black Box,...
View ArticleMr PM, deal with problems at NIB
When Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley signalled on a talk show recently that he had knowledge of life-changing and life-impacting problems for citizens existing at the National Insurance Board (NIB), he...
View ArticleDr Rowley, show true leadership on Marlene issue
Politics is largely about perception, hence the standard for measuring and ranking corruption is the Global Corruption Perception Index. As citizens of this country, we have courted political parties...
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