Fun getaway to Mud Volcano sites
The four-day Easter holiday weekend is quickly approaching and if you haven’t thought about how you’re going to spend those days yet, the Sunday Guardian might have a few ideas for you.In this series,...
View ArticleBlood disorders no longer a death sentence
If we educate, manage effectively and efficiently diagnose and treat, you automatically have a reduction in the number of patients born with inherited blood disorders, namely haemophilia, sickle cell...
View ArticleBritish Council ramps up arts work in T&T
The British Council Caribbean has been carrying out a number of programmes in T&T over the last few months. The council's Caribbean Arts manager Annalee Davis said the implementation of these...
View ArticlePreserving Angelo’s legacy
Angelo Bissessarsingh had strong feelings about how history was being communicated in T&T. That’s why he wanted to do it differently.He set up the Facebook page Angelo Bissessarsingh’s Virtual...
View ArticleMicrosoft goes hip with groupware
On this day last week, Microsoft introduced its new collaborative work tool, Teams. From the promotional material alone, it was clear that the company intends to put the product on a new marketing...
View ArticleThe best of French Cuisine
T&T joins in a global celebration of French gastronomy tonight Gout de France/Good France is a celebration of the vitality of French cuisine, bringing together chefs from all over the world: it is...
View ArticleYoung author publishes new book
Three books in two years. This was achieved by young Rhonda Berment, originally of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, who has always dreamt of becoming a writer.Ecstatic about her third publication, Berment...
View ArticleHow mauvais langue mashed up Bill and Eric
William “Bill” Bronté-Tinkew, a young student at the then Teachers Training College on upper St Vincent St, emerged as victim of a plot: the Doctor was becoming too fond of the young “Bill,” and there...
View ArticleLet’s talk film
Jason Solomons is a respected film critic on BBC News, Sky News and BBC Radio. Based in London, he recently visited Trinidad to lead a three-day workshop in Film Criticism organized by the Bocas Lit...
View ArticleLooking for the brighter side
A few days ago I remarked that I felt hard-pressed to carry on with my Lenten inspirational series in a week filled with distress and was encouraged with the suggestion from calypsonian Stalin’s...
View ArticleYoung women inspired to aim for the stars
More than 300 female students, drawn from secondary schools across Trinidad, were challenged to aim for the stars and be the best that they can be when they participated in the 2017 Annual JA Student...
View ArticleThe Walcott I remember
I first met Derek Walcott, who died on March 20, in the late 1960s when we both worked as reporters at the Trinidad Guardian and the Trinidad Evening News in my native Trinidad.Walcott already was an...
View ArticleIn the pursuit of Happiness
Historian Jennifer Michael Hecht is perhaps one of the best demonstrations of the usefulness of history in counteracting erroneous beliefs about the world, past and present. And she herself goes even...
View ArticleFans set to hate remake of 80s TV hit CHiPs
Hardcore CHiPs fans hate it and the real California Highway Patrol seems not quite sure what to make of it.But Larry Wilcox, who rode his motorcycle to everlasting fame in the old CHiPs TV series, says...
View ArticleDrama in Sangre Grande and Piparo
The Princes Town Theatre Workshop (PTTW) continues its island-wide tour with its exciting drama production, Parosin—The Lady Next Door.Written and produced by journalist Seeta Persad, this play scored...
View ArticleTen Years of Alta
PART TWOToday we have the second and final 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...
View ArticleAnother Tanker in the limelight in Hotel 21
After playing to overbooked houses at Central Bank Auditorium last weekend the award winning production companies RS/RR Productions goes to Cipriani College this Saturday and Sunday with their brand...
View ArticleThe Children’s Ark helps bring a Royal Reading Room to POS prison
ROSLYN CARRINGTONI went to prison on Thursday, and I sat in the courtyard and cried.It was the opening ceremony for the Royal Reading Room, a warm, cosy space carved out amidst the dreary monotony of...
View ArticleNow, cosplay for Decibel festival
At this year’s Decibel Entertainment Festival, one lucky young person will win the opportunity to fly to Los Angeles and spend two weeks at one of Hollywood’s best-known makeup schools.Decibel founder...
View ArticleBocas Lit Fest gives Henry Swanzy Award to Joan Dayal
Joan Dayal, owner of Paper Based bookshop, was both surprised and moved on Wednesday morning when she heard the news that the Bocas Lit Fest has awarded her its prestigious Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for...
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