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Passport to where?
In the week of Bendgate, with flocks of pigeons flocking with diarrhoeal enthusiasm over Apple’s launch of the iPhone 6 Plus, it was hard to imagine that another technology company might be able to...
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A nomad going with the flow
I have no idea when next I will have the opportunity to do my laundry! Just a few days ago I was folding and packing my very familiar clothes into my suitcase when it occurred to me that I didn’t know...
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The Trini speaking up for Palestine
In his office at the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem, Chris Gunness is thousands of miles away from San Fernando, south Trinidad, where he was born at the General Hospital in 1959. He’s...
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Time for adults to take back prime time
A single mother of three wrote to say how stressed out she had been feeling because of the demands of her job and raising the kids only with the help of her elderly mother who spent time with them as...
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Tuition Woes The first month has gone and we are already in the fifth week of the semester. The Cave Hill campus—the best of the three campuses—has suffered a noticeable drop in its population. It may...
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Wand making moves to help the needy
A force to be reckoned with is an apt description for the founders of the non-profit group Women in Action for the Needy and Destitute (Wand).Humbled by the recognition of their efforts to serve the...
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Precious time for readers
For an Alta student, learning to read is a transition from being a non-reader into the literary world as an emerging reader. It is no easy feat, since at some point in an emergent reader’s life reading...
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Alpine outing for Caribbean writers
Robert Antoni, 2014 winner of the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, 2012 winner Earl Lovelace and Kei Miller, 2014 non-fiction winner, were among a group of eight writers invited to showcase...
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Read all about it
A media professional recently asked what I thought of the media in T&T. So, here goes. I think it is vital that the T&T media landscape has independent media practitioners building sustainable...
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New book features mas of Stephen Lee Heung
A new book of unseen historic photos of Carnival is being celebrated at a book launch that will offer amazing unseen film footage of Stephen Lee Heung’s bands including the only known footage of...
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Discuss risks of radiation imaging: cardiologists
Cardiologists should discuss with patients the risks and benefits of chest imaging using ionising radiation before the procedure, according to a new statement endorsed by several medical...
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Insufficient evidence for garlic use against high blood pressure
A new analysis of past clinical trials using garlic supplements against high blood pressure finds a modest benefit, but researchers urge longer, more rigorous studies to assess the popular alternative...
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Of Cobblers and Crisp
Sometimes culinary impressions are made at a very young age, for me it was my mother’s coconut cake when I was about five and after that it was the apple crisp that was served for dessert, when I was...
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Eco-Divers in cleanup campaign
More than 30 participants gathered in bright sunshine at the Crews’ Inn marina to prepare for a much-anticipated clean-up exercise at Chacachacare Island. This initiative was part of this year’s...
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Championing men against breast cancer
Dr Rajendra Rampaul The Breast and Oncoplastic ClinicOctober is upon us, and as usual the air is abuzz with all of the initiatives and charity events that help to raise the focus on looking after...
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Hazel Brown: Young women still at risk
Despite many young women in accessing tertiary education in T&T, co-ordinator of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women Hazel Brown says many of them still lack opportunities which will...
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NorthGate students learn Lessons from Cubes in Space
How would a compass behave in space or in the earth’s ionosphere? What if you sent up an uncharged battery there—what would happen? What about sending up live mosquito larvae in a gel—how would life be...
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The Hotel Guiria tragedy
In the late 19th century, severe civil unrest in Venezuela saw an influx of thousands of Venezuelans to Trinidad. Now, this was not new, since from at least the 1840s peons known as the “cocoa panyols”...
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Garnet Edwards: Be honest, trust and love
“Be honest, trust and love!” These are the main ingredients which have helped Garnet Edwards reach the age of 90. Edwards started and built the 4 H Club throughout T&T and was also awarded the...
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How stress can mess with your workout
A workout can be the perfect antidote to a stressful workday filled with endless e-mails and demanding deadlines. But that “my brain is fried” feeling could make your sweat session less effective,...
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