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A weekend of fun for all
Happy Easter to Pulse family It’s another long Easter holiday weekend and there’s something for everyone, of all ages and for all tastes. Apart from our beautiful beaches and leisure sites, family...
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Inside Out pan festival in Texas
Spring is in the air, which means it is time once again for the annual Inside Out steelband festival in Austin, Texas. This year the festival celebrates its 20th anniversary and will feature Andy...
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Abstract dance is awesome
Abstract, described by its choreographer Candice Clarke as “an artistic freedom,” was a unique and awesome production when staged last month end at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (Sapa)....
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Children Tell the Best Stories
The NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest announces a new collection of stories from the NGC Bocas Lit Fest Storytelling Caravan.It is another unique publication designed to engage the country’s young readers...
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Rock Festival in the South
Schmidt Entertainment Limited (SEL) has been an established entity for the past five years, managed by an executive body with ninee years experience in the local entertainment industry. In an effort to...
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Plant butchers use charcuterie techniques, mimic meat flavour
When Ryan Bauhaus first experimented with faux meats, he fixated on recreating that taste of blood, settling on a tomato paste blend to mimic the acidic, iron flavour. For the fat, Bauhaus boiled down...
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Easters of Yore
This is one of Angelo’s unpublished sketches (from his Virtual Meseum of T&T, 2009) infused with Caribbean humour. The greatness and sanctity of Easter must not be lost on us however, and the...
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2017 European Film Festival: Celebrating unity in diversity
The European Film Festival (EFF)—T&T’s longest running film festival—will return this year with an exciting line-up of films from 14 different countries across Europe. The festival will be held at...
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Educating a child with autism in T&T
Dr. Radica Mahase Founder/Director of Support Autism T&T Ravi is 12 years old. He grew up in the outskirts of Port-of-Spain. When he was three years old his parents tried to enrol him in a...
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Saving lives in east PoS
East Port-of-Spain has a reputation as a crime hot spot rife with robberies, shootings, drugs and killings.However, while life is hard in that depressed inner city community, there are many good,...
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For keep's sake?
A review by Marsha Pearce You might keep a promise, the Sabbath or the rules. You might keep memories: vivid shapes or half-formed, shadowy contours. You might keep a note of happenings or keep on...
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T&T’s Christian history
In Trinidad, the first official policy in respect to religion was the Code Noir of 1789, which was a set of slave laws published by the Spanish governor of Trinidad, José María Chacón. This Code stated...
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New comedy-kaiso venue
Behind every dark cloud there is a silver lining. Irvin “Blackie” Blackman aims to fill the void left by De Nu Pub’s fiery death on March 26 by launching a new weekly event—Kaiso and Comedy...
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A Gallery of faith
It’s tempting to see the book in the context of his more recent works, books collecting photographs chronicling destruction by natural disaster, most notably in Sri Lanka, New Orleans and Haiti.Many of...
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Sharing is the new normal
Pepper Advertising recently hosted the second of two social media bootcamp interventions with Junction Digital’s Connor Galway.This was a for pay exercise, but Pepper’s Dennis Ramdeen extended...
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Howard University Open Day event focuses on role of tech
“One of the things that motivated me when I was growing up, was no one in my household ever told me that I could not do something. Every time I told my parents or my grandmother that I wanted to become...
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Depression: Let’s talk: Look who’s talking, too
For the past five years, I have experienced no greater joy than to have people who identify with a particular topic write a response about themselves or about their perception of me. This has been the...
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Panama Canal stories both connect and divide
Historias del Canal, 2014, Panama, 1 hr 46 minsDrama directed by Carolina Borrero (1913), Pinky Mon (1950), Luis Franco Brantley (1964), Abner Benaim (1977), and Pituga Ortega-Heilbron (2013).The film...
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What makes a bestseller?
Literary criticism is over 300 years old yet, in the 21st century, all literary criticism still boils down to one sentence: “This is my opinion.”If enough critics agree, then a book becomes part of the...
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All about Alta’s strategic plan
Recently, Alta’s staff, some board members and regional coordinators who manage Alta’s programmes and classes around the country, participated in a strategic planning workshop.The workshop was...
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