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Hectic training time for Alta tutors
Alta’s tutor training course is one of the more exciting although hectic times of the year.Up to 100 prospective volunteer tutors are trained annually over a six-week period to effectively and...
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Scrunter to cook up kaiso pelau
Scrunter (Irwin Reyes Johnson) is as well-known for his cooking as he is for his music. This much beloved calypsonian has been chosen to be one of the featured artistes in the Icons of Grande concert,...
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Beautiful pan music in the East and West
Beautiful music was the common note which threaded entertainment activity last weekend, though the entertainment menu actually began the previous Wednesday when Q’s Place on Wrightson Road,...
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The Blackman Family pays tribute to parents – Claudette and Ras Shorty I
Jamoo is perhaps the most unique indigenous music genre created in the 20th century. The legacy and gift of Jamoo, left by the late great Ras Shorty I (Garfield Blackman), also acclaimed as the...
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Turtle Beach all jazzed up and ready
The stage is set at the Turtle Beach by Rex Resort Tobago for the first ever Jazz on the Beach event. This is by far one of the most anticipated events for the upcoming weekend in the sister isle. Set...
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Young Enterprise man destined for greatness
He is now set on becoming the world’s number one fitness athlete. His love for health and fitness grew as he became a teenager and now, at 24, has amassed several trophies, medals and titles in just...
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Water Riots of 1903
In this season of drought, when every newscast is embellished with at least two fiery protests for the crystal element of life (a necessity your humble correspondent is now straitened for), it may be...
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Calls for funding: Triathlon club producing Champs
For over 20 years, The Caribbean Cross Training and Multi Sport Club has been quietly turning out race-winning triathlon athletes without much fanfare.The club’s director Andrew Eligon together with...
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‘DIFFERENT IS BEAUTIFUL’
For more than 40 years, Prestige Holdings Limited has been “helping people taste happiness every day”. The devotion to autism awareness is just another way that the company has continued to deliver on...
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Poetry rising
Erline Andrews Poetry in T&T is at an exciting crossroads. Poetry slams are drawing sold-out crowds. T&T poets are winning awards and drawing international attention. And a steady stream of new...
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Voices From Inside
They came to give us a minute, maybe two, of their stories of life behind prison walls. Not enough time to tell it all, but enough time to throw the imagination of the free into bewildered and...
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Girls and tech, with vigour
There’s something heartening about seeing a room full of young women, a twinkle in their eyes and a grim set to their jawlines in vigorous competition to create digital solutions to social...
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Feel donates 200,000 lbs of Rice
In response to the growing food challenge faced by low income households locally, Feel, (Foundation for the Enhancement and Enrichment of Life) has donated 200,000 lbs of rice since the start of...
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Joint chutney soca monarchs receive prizes
“Winning the Chutney Soca Monarch Competition changed my life,” said Omadath Maharaj, one of the joint winners of the 2017 Chutney Soca Monarch competition, after collecting his prize at the...
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Archdiocese celebrates 100th year of Fatima’s apparition
Even as the Church celebrates the new breath of life that has motivated the faithful, the Archbishop’s Appeal has begun a new project to further the cause of the faith. On May 13, the Roman Catholic...
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The Met Gala: Rihanna encased in petals, Zendaya in parrots
The colour red made a dramatic show Monday night in the grand parade of fashion at the Met Gala, including co-chair Katy Perry’s look, as did glittery gold and blue feathers on the back of Blake...
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Depression is much more than sadness
The global campaign against stigma and discrimination towards those who live with mental illness is widening.Much effort is being undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO) and rightly so, since...
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Why adult literacy?
It is a question that has been asked countless times since Alta’s inception; why adult literacy and not children’s literacy?It is clear that many children in T&T struggle with reading and writing...
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The reality of free speech
British journalist and author Nick Cohen’s credo can be summed by these sentences: “Challenge involves offence. Stop offending and the world stands still.”Subtitled, Censorship in an Age of Freedom,...
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New preschool in Woodbrook
These two young women shared the same dream: to run their own preschool and daycare centre. When Josette Rouse and Cerissa Charles became friends while working together in 2013, they decided that...
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