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Please help me clean up this mess
Cecelia Isaac is not pleading for food, groceries or handouts.All the 45-year-old mother wants is for someone in authority to visit where she lives in Sea Lots and clear thousands of plastic bottles...
View ArticleParang big guns clash in finale
Nine bands will vie for supremacy at the grand finale of the National Senior Parang Festival on Saturday at Arima Velodrome, Arima.The National Senior Parang Festival made its return this year with a...
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Christmas won’t be the same this year
I still feel that flutter when I hear Elvis Presley belt out Blue Christmas. I was too young when I first heard it to really understand what it was about.I would sing it with no idea about a “blue...
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Equality: The Impossible Quest
Although Creveld describes his book as a history, it is also a polemic. But this dual purpose does not detract from either the history or the argument and, indeed, helps clarify both the concept and...
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Beautifying Beetham Beyond Borders makes a difference
“Beetham will become a model community for the entire nation to follow.” This declaration was made by Member of Parliament for Laventille East/Morvant, Adrian Leonce, at the recent official launch of...
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Island rock tackles a Christmas standard
The new arrangement of The Little Drummer Boy by 5 Miles to Midnight (5M2M) released last week begins gently and reassuringly enough.There are gentle chimes and a soaring chorale hinting at the most...
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Why not sponsor an Alta student?
This Christmas, if you, your department or your company are looking for a way to give back, Alta is the place for you.For $600 a year, you, your co-workers or company can sponsor an Alta student and...
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Mary Dance...again
If you wish to give yourself or a special someone an early Christmas gift of a theatrical performance, one option is to attend the reprise of Mary Could Dance. It is on this weekend in Valsayn at the...
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A song for Patti
The recently departed Patti Rogers would have enjoyed the music tribute held in her memory last Sunday at Kaiso Blues Cafe. The event, held in a celebratory mood, was the brainchild of vocalist Candice...
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Latin & Parang music to make you smile
Sonríe The Band (pronounced sown-ree-ey), is one of this country’s few Latin/parang groups which creates unique, authentic music experiences with its complement of Latin percussion and original...
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Mark Loquan: Building a pan legacy
Nasser Khan President of The National Gas Company of T&T (NGC) Mark Loquan is an extremely busy man. Not only is he a chemical engineer, Loquan happens to be one of the country’s leading steelpan...
View ArticleGML blood drive
Guardian Media Ltd will be hosting a blood drive on December 13 at its Chaguanas headquarters from 9 am to 3:30 pm.Members of the public are being urged to donate blood voluntarily as the current pool...
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Proper nutrition and breast health
Avril Harry RN, BSc Oncology Nursing (UWI), As part of our thrust to support women interested in comprehensive breast health, nutrition is one of the common areas of inquiry by patients who have been...
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Teens focus on Yeoh Beads Valdeen Shears-Neptune
They are the youngest vendors at one of the season's most popular markets.And rightly proud of this feat. Perdie Bradford and Logan De Frietas, both 13, have opted to spend most of their leisure time...
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Multi-tasking mom turns talent into $$
Valdeen Shears-Neptune Michelle Laveau can be seen busy most mornings and late evenings trying to get her three young daughters to and from school. Her mind is often working overtime with the many...
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A way with words
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneBut she did not stop there.Saunders continued to feed her creative spirit and is now the proud owner of a home-based business, A Way With Words, where she uses handsaws, stencils,...
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Creating from memory
Since being given a class assignment to explore a memory, Jamaican emerging artist Kelley-Ann Lindo has been excavating and scrutinizing her bank of experiences.What she remembers is a literal flood of...
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Borders Festival to celebrate music, food and the arts
The Borders Festival is a brand new music, food and arts festival to take place next year, on May 26, 27 and 28, at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, the Jean Pierre Complex and St John’s Ambulance Hall.At...
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Pirates preying on Venezuela fishermen as industry unravels
PUNTA DE ARAYA, Venezuela—So the skinny 17-year-old and the other Marval men ran to grab the guns they’d soldered together from kitchen pipes, smoked an acrid-smelling drug to boost their energy, and...
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Delivering on a promise of absurdist comedy
Wesley Gibbings Casting British playwright Chris Lambert’s The Simple Process of Alchemy was never meant to be an easy task.But director Kyle Hernandez clearly had no great difficulty for his...
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