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Artist Ozy Merrique gives up Cipriani Blvd
Last Friday was Ozy Merrique’s final day at the spot he has kept at Cipriani Boulevard for the past year and half. The spot was his creative space to paint and make music. Now he has decided to move on...
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Helping young entrepreneurs through fashion
The This is Me programme is returning to Trinidad but on a much larger scale than ever before. The brainchild of T&T-born Dr Marielle Barrow, the fifth edition of the programme aims to train 200...
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Therapy through art
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneAnnalise Dos Ramos’ eldest art student is 89 and her youngest, two. She treats them, and those of all ages in between, the same. Each gets a warm, welcoming smile, patience and...
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Trini volunteer in Rio
When Trinidadian Jon Mahabir saw the request online for volunteers for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games not long after he returned from the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, he was determined to be part of the...
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Wetlands: Their loss is our loss
Molly R Gaskin, President The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trustwww.papwildfowltrust.orgLife began in water 3-3.5 thousand million years ago where the world’s land and water meet, at the water’s...
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The real history of Columbus Square
As readers may well be aware, there have been recent calls for the removal of the statue of Christopher Columbus from the place it occupies just east of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception....
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TSTT supports charitable work of Archbishop’s Appeal
The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd (TSTT) has donated a vehicle to the Archbishop’s Appeal T&T, to assist their charity efforts. A release said Camille Campbell, TSTT’s...
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Archie Buck Dem Up
Ray Allen and Ray Funk One of the most memorable calypsos of the 1960s was Archie Buck Dem Up, written by the Virgin Islands calypsonian Prince Galloway. The song celebrated great Virgin Island...
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Taking a chance on tech
Idris and Meera Raja were sweating and walking briskly back and forth on a quiet Sunday morning as tables are being covered with crisp cloth, and goods are carefully unpacked from dozens of cardboard...
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Mental illness a big public health issue, which we ignore
“The stigmatisation of mental illness is harmful particularly in that it renders mental illness and those living with mental illness invisible.” So says Ledet Muleta, a 37-year-old Ethiopian-born nurse...
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Haitian artist shares his heart with Trinidad
Jacmel is the heartbeat of Haiti’s artistic self. “I grew up in a town where art was valued and masks were always being made for Carnival, madigras (Big Tuesday),” said Didier Civil, a Haitian artist...
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Mahalia in Spectacular September of musicals
Theatre production company JCS Entertainment Ltd (JCS Ent) returns with two back-to-back Spectacular September of musicals, featuring fully-staged and costumed performances by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...
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FashionTT to create jobs with garment production facility
The T&T Fashion Company Limited (FashionTT), in partnership with the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) and Export Centres Company Limited (ECCL), is establishing a state-of-the-art production...
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Hot pan on a cool evening
When the skies opened last Friday and the rains fell heavily, accompanied by lightning and thunder, few thought that the third edition of Desperadoes Steel Orchestra’s Nine Fridays for Patrick...
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Kids have fun at holiday art camp
The Art Society of T&T has been hosting a two-week art camp for children.Based on the success of the 2015 Children’s Art Camp, ASTT president, Clayton de Freitas, ensured that the camp continued in...
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Ron Reid to dazzle with Precious Metals
Acclaimed as one of the country’s best bassists, Ron Reid will be featured in one of his rare appearances on local soil on Sunday at the Central Bank Auditorium, Lower St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain....
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The value of good customer service
Companies that rely heavily on good customer service eventually feel the effect on bottom line when they allow an employee who does not appreciate the importance of achieving customer satisfaction to...
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It would be hard for a continental dweller to understand that in an island as small as Tobago, there could be great diversity and isolated communities though the extent of the place is only 116 square...
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Being your own best friend
I have learned that the most important tolerance shown to a person living with a mental illness is the tolerance displayed by the person to him/herself. That individual must understand his/her...
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Land of many peoples: The First Peoples
In this land of many peoples and people of many ancestries, how do people see their ethnic heritage? How do they practice it, ignore it, or celebrate it? On the occasion of our 54th anniversary of...
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