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Tribute to the music of Lord Kitchener
The Academy of Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs of the University of T&T (UTT) will continue its Distinguished Lecture series on Monday with A Tribute to the Music of Lord Kitchener by...
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Nine writers make OCM Bocas Prize longlist
The Bocas Lit Fest has announced books by nine writers for its longlist for this year’s OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. The Prize recognises books in three genre categories—poetry, fiction,...
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What the heck, Apple?
The company’s share price was below US$4, and the single bold headline word read, “Pray.”It might be time to get down on bent knees again, this time to call not for divine intervention, but for...
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Forgiving others promotes well-being
Last week I participated in a three-day weekend conference on psychological health and counselling as part of an ongoing series of church ministry training. I was the beneficiary of a paid subscription...
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Everybody Loves Raymond
It was a Friday evening, one week before his big post-Carnival show, Everybody Loves Raymond, this Saturday (March 18),—Raymond Ramnarine was pumped—not on his music, but on antibiotics and shots from...
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Welcome to Hotel 21
On Friday evening, the Central Bank will get Hotel 21, a brand new comedy by playwright Ricardo Samuel and directed by acclaimed director/actress Debra Boucaud Mason. After starting the year with...
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Bosses don’t know it all
Organisational psychologist Jeffrey Pfeffer and management expert Robert Sutton, both professors at Stanford University, write that one of their favourite sayings is: When two people always agree, one...
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Thirteen years of Alta – Part One
Today we have the first part of a contribution from Roseline Lynch, an Alta Tutor who has taught our Level 1 and Level 2 students at Alta’s Arima Boys’ and Arima Girls’ RC School venues for the past 13...
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Shanaqua returns to the stage
Now that Carnival 2017 is all done and dusted, former soca starlet Shanaqua is determined to make a comeback to the stage. For Carnival, Shanaqua, real name Rachael Fortune, waxed topical with a Myron...
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Vaughnette thrills at Kaiso Blues
Music concert review by FRANKA PHILIP Remember when KMC sang Soul on Fire back in 2005? It wasn’t too bad an attempt at a soca love song, but in the hands of Vaughnette Bigford and Ming Low Chew Tung,...
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Welcome to Hotel 21
On Friday evening, the Central Bank will get Hotel 21, a brand new comedy by playwright Ricardo Samuel and directed by acclaimed director/actress Debra Boucaud Mason. After starting the year with...
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Pichakaree for Phagwa
Twelve finalists will compete at this year’s Pichakaree song contest to be held this Sunday (March 19) in Enterprise, Chaguanas, hosted by the Hindu Prachar Kendra temple as part of its Phagwa festival...
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Trinidad All Stars jammin’ still
I thought I would get some rest after Carnival but that has turned out to be wishful thinking. On Thursday night I attended Albert Bailey’s announcement that his brother’s spirit in mas will be invoked...
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Bigford continues to shine
Vaughnette Bigford is little annoyed. A case of the sniffles is keeping her back. As a singer, anything that resembles a cold can affect the vocal chords or a performance. She is staving off a sinus...
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Baha’is celebrate Naw Ruz
Baha’is all over the world will celebrate their New Year on March 20.This is the time of the vernal equinox. It is called by the Persian word, Naw-Ruz (pronounced nor-rooz), which means New Day....
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Lots of Socks For Down Syndrome Awareness
If on March 21 you see people wearing boldly coloured, mismatched socks, fear not, they haven’t gone completely nuts. They’re just taking part in the #Lotsofsocks campaign which seeks to heighten...
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The starved eye closes
Obituary by Raymond Ramcharitar With the passing of Derek Walcott at the age of 87, the Caribbean has lost its great poet, whose work was born in and committed to locating the Caribbean in the...
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The chulha
Indentureship was not without its own abuse by the plantation owners who still had the consciousness of slave and master engrained in them. The East Indians were given the barest of rations and were...
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MX Prime: It’s about how long your star can shine
Most of us would have danced to the infectious sounds of MX Prime (Edghill Thomas) and his group Ultimate Reject’s (Johann Seaton, Joel Aming and Avaron Vanloo) monster hit Full Extreme for Carnival...
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The mysterious Stage O
Avril Harry Breast Care Nurse, RN, BSc Oncology Nursing Pink Hibiscus Breast The less commonly talked about but undoubtedly the earliest form of pre-cancer of the bThe number of DCIS cases has...
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