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St Paul’s Anglican scores Pan For Blue beaver trick
For the fourth consecutive year, St Paul’s Anglican Primary School has won the coveted Pan For Blue title. The San Fernando School boys beat out nine other bands in the Primary School competition, held...
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Latin Arts festival hosted for Spanish language students
More than 400 students and their teachers are expected to attend the 2017 edition of Vista Latina, a Latin American arts and culture festival, hosted by Trini Tica International (TTI). The festival,...
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A must for true seekers of Indian history in Trinidad
Anyone who is truly interested in indentureship and the general history of how Indians came to Trinidad would have read this book, which may be why Keith Ormiston Laurence, a Trinidadian historian who...
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Beautiful voices, music at UWI concert
House rules notwithstanding, the smartphones were all drawn at the Musical Arts production of You Will Be Found on the St Augustine campus of UWI on May 13. OMG! would probably have been the online...
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Reading moves us forward
Alta Student Stories Part III Two weeks ago Alta began telling the stories of people enrolled in the Alta programme. These stories were taken from two publications—At Last Adult Learners Write—an...
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Junior Achievement launches 2017 Leadership Debate Series
Junior Achievement of T&T launched its nationwide JA Leadership Debate Series 2017 last week, which aims to empower young people to realise their full potential. The debate series, which is open to...
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Dance world mourns as icon Julia Edwards dies
Trinidad and Tobago’s ‘first lady of dance’ Julia Edwards, 84, died on Wednesday in San Diego, USA. Edwards suffered with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and, bed ridden for the past few years, died...
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Music for our martyrs in the arts
Most of the performances were really outstanding, but the standout act on the night was Leston Paul when he played Pan in A Minor on keyboards, a calypso classic he arranged for the late Lord...
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RBC volunteers paint special needs centre
“It’s a privilege to volunteer our time.” Those were the sentiments of employees from RBC Royal Bank who volunteered to repaint the LIFE (Learning Is For Everyone) Centre in Petit Valley, with support...
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Scotiabank workers give back
On May 21, as part of United Way T&T’s National Day of Caring, Scotiabank T&T Limited embarked on four projects focused on environmental sustainability.This year, the Bank partnered with...
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Atlantic brings cheer to Point Fortin Extended Care Centre
Volunteers from LNG producer Atlantic made the Point Fortin Extended Care Centre a brighter place as they came together to paint, garden and set up furniture for the Centre’s residents on May 21, the...
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Plastic eating worms may help polluted lands, seas
Millions of tons of plastic bags end up on landfill sites every year, risking the health of the environment and destroying the natural habitat of certain animals. But amateur beekeeper Federica...
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Priestess launches book
I Salute Oshun-Adura, written by Orisa devotee and priestess of Oshun Iya Kambiri Osunriyke De Suza, will be launched on Saturday. The Oshuna Motivation Centre is hosting the book launch at its centre,...
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The passage of shame
Rape, mutilation, sexploitation of women of African descent were skeletons in the closet of civilised European historians of the day.So too was the new horror of East Indian women who were either...
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Indians then and now
Kevin BaldeosinghIn his book A Turn in the South, VS Naipaul, who was born in 1932, writes: “In the Indian countryside of my childhood in Trinidad there were many murders and acts of violence, and...
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Ishwar Hardial arrived an Indian and died a Trinidadian
In central Trinidad, covered in tangled vines, towering trees and green vegetation as far as the eye can see, one can find the evidence of a once thriving cocoa, coffee and citrus industry.The rotting...
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The Sawhs generosity knows no bounds
The Sawhs generosity knows no bounds. This was evident recently when a man who collects a free meal daily at Joy’s Roti Delight in Fort Lauderdale drove into the establishment on a motorised wheelchair...
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Moving on Up
Tiger Balm, Kearra Amaya Gopee's senior thesis installation, uses archival photos and manipulated video to explore questions of identity, nationality and immigration. Photo courtesy: Kearra Amaya Gopee...
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WeBeat honours Crosby
Since the inception of WeBeat St James Live in 2001, this year will be the first occasion on which the festival will be staged without its chairman, Earl Crosby, who passed away in August 2016. “It is...
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Indians in the Presbyterian Church
There is an accompanying view that the church’s identity has always been a mish-mash of influences from traditional Hindu practices to orthodox Protestantism to modern-day evangelistic fervour and the...
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