Plastikeep gets six-month lifeline
The Plastikeep recovery project has been given a six-month financial lifeline by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.The ministry has proposed to provide funding to Plastikeep from the...
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Big challenges, big rewards using highway shoulder
Public works officials and engineers mulling the possibility of allowing drivers to use the shoulder on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway for rush-hour travel will have to weigh the potential benefits of...
View ArticleIce cream lovers world at QRC grounds today
For ice cream lovers, Queen’s Royal College Grounds will be the place to be this afternoon at 1 pm as Flavorite Foods Ltd stages Ice Cream World 2015.Ice Cream World is Flavorite’s (manufacturers of...
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National Fruit Festival focuses on agriculture, holistic lifestyles
The Tableland Pineapple Farmers’ Association has launched the fourth edition of its National Fruit Festival in partnership with iTHINK Global Consulting Services at the Todd’s Road RC Primary School,...
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Spiritual Baptists making strides
Ringing a bell, talking in tongues, lighting a candle or even sprinkling water to release blessings are still considered “simi dimi” or obeah by followers of other religions. This according to one...
View ArticleEaster Green Market on north coast
The North Coast comes alive this Easter with the first North Coast Green Market, on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. The North Coast Green Market is being organised by the North Coast Empowerment Group...
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Coco Velvet hosts workshop for fashionistas
Local fashion stores are set to benefit from Coco Velvet International’s annual fashion workshop as training will be focused on careers in the retail fashion industry. Since its launch in October 1997...
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Celebrating Palm Sunday
T&T Guardian photographer EDISON BOODOOSINGH and photo editor MICHEAL BRUCE joined scores of San Rafael parishioners on their annual Palm Sunday re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s journey to Jerusalem....
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Dil-E-Nadan's future is secure
Entering the home of the Ramnarines at 7 pm, one could never guess that six children who created waves onstage with the band Dil-E-Nadan recently at the Everybody Loves Raymond (ELR) concert were at...
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TTCSI welcomes new president
Representatives of sector gathered at the NCC VIP hospitality Lounge at Queen’s Park Savannah on March 26 when the T&T Coalition of Service Industries (TTCSI) hosted its first Mix ’N Mingle...
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The next government must focus on better mental health
“A positive mental health is conceived as an inner balance, ability to manage the everyday deals and to choose a correct solution of personal problems, as well as to adhere to the conventional...
View ArticleJamaicans dominate Bocas prize shortlist
Two Jamaican writers and one St Lucian writer have been named to the shortlist for the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by OCM. In the final round of judging, they will now vie...
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Rum talk: A diary of the trauma of Caroni
Last Saturday a new novelist joined the ranks of Trinidadian authorship. Selwyn Bhajan launched his new book Rum Talk: Diary of an Honorary Drunkard at the The Big Black Box in Woobrook, to a full...
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Book helps girls love their natural hair
It always perturbs me that in the 21st Century in the Caribbean many women are still negatively criticised about their hair. I am particularly astounded by the way people treat women who have tight...
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Logie tops schools spoken word ‘intercol’
At last week’s high-octane finals of the Courts Bocas Secondary Schools Spoken Word Intercol competition, Michael Logie of St Augustine Secondary School, had to pull out all the stops to beat his...
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Nobel laureate emphasises the value of language
Among the more modest and least glitzy exhibitions that formed part of UWI’s Centre for Language Learning (CLL) Open House activities on March 27 and 28, was a photographic display of the late Chilean...
View ArticleEmerging writers to get advice from literary agent
As part of the 2015 festival programme, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest is offering ten emerging fiction writers the chance to have their work critiqued by an expert reader. Interested writers must submit work...
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Warm wine and hard tackles
Whether our current decade comes to be defined as the age of austerity remains to be seen. One thing, however, is absolutely certain, in Britain at least, this is the age of weirdness. It’s easy to...
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Make a difference through service to others
Literacy and the decision to become an Alta volunteer sometimes hits closest to home when someone has a personal encounter with a non-reader.This week, attorney Sajina Kadir describes how literacy...
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Atlantic Career Caravan rolls into Point Fortin schools
As “D-Day” draws near for the annual CXC and CAPE examinations, thousands of students all over the country are considering their post-secondary school options and future careers. Recently, students of...
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