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Helping kids learn about entrepreneurship
Scores of children from Laventille and environs were taught the rudiments of money management and entrepreneurship when RBC participated in a recent financial workshop hosted by Waby says Yes Programme...
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Jointpop: T&T's Rock N Roll Heroes
When Jointpop frontman, Gary Hector tells the crowd in the Big Black Box at the launch for their new album, Quicksand: “We are just we...no fanfare, no hype,” one recognises that in that wry comment,...
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Republic hosts talent spectacular
Last Saturday, Republic Bank Ltd held its bi-annual Talent Spectacular competition, Fifty Shades of Blue, before a packed O2 Park, in Chagaramas. The competition, which includes the Group’s regional...
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‘Food Oscars’ are back in T&T
Local food artisans are being recognised this year at the Table Talk Awards. The awards known as the “Oscars of the Food World” were started in Jamaica under the auspices of the Jamaica Observer. It...
View ArticleExceptional care at vet hospital
Permit me space in your widely read newspapers to pay tribute to clinical staff who save lives daily, but who do not normally receive public tributes for their devotion to their profession and clients...
View ArticleCOLOSSUS EVENT IN WSOP SURE TO MAKE POKER HISTORY
A unique element of the NASCAR racing season is that its marquee event, the Daytona 500, comes and goes on opening weekend. A few laps around the ovals, and just like that, some driver has the...
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The BYTE is coming again
Buoyed by the encouraging public response to the Barrack Yard Tent Experience (BYTE) during this year’s Carnival, organizers will stage another production at its location in the car park of the...
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Fashion designer to go global
As we celebrate Indian Arrival Day, we look at someone who came from India and made T&T their home. In a modern story of arrival, Shereen Ali speaks with fashion designer Charu Lochan Dass who came...
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Meat Times
We are a meat-loving nation; every meal is built around a succulent and tasty meat dish. Chicken is the nation’s favourite meat with “common fowl” or “yard fowl” enjoying increased popularity. But be...
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Am I at risk? Be breast aware
Dr Shashta Sawh At Pink Hibiscus, I see several women a day coming for a wide spectrum of breast problems or for a routine breast screening. But despite the reason that brings these patients to our...
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Nanton’s island voice
If you’ve been lucky enough to hear Vincentian-born, Barbadosbased Philip Nanton reading—or, more aptly, performing—from his Island Voices repertoire, you can attest to the writer’s comedic chops....
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CaribbeanTales Incubator to award new scholarships
CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution (CTWD), a distribution platform for Caribbean film and television content, has received a three-year funding commitment to provide eight partial scholarships a...
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T&T Takes Silver at Chelsea Flower Show
The T&T Horticultural Society is the winner of the silver gilt medal at the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show in London, England. The annual springtime event, which took place last week, was started in 1913...
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Students encouraged to ‘Plant, Snap and Win’
The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) is pleased to celebrate its anniversary every year on June 5, World Environment Day, as it increases our profile as a regulatory body charged with the...
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Theatre company accepted to Toronto Fringe Festival
Steven Edwards, founder and director of Steven Edwards Productions (SEP), sold his car and pawned all of his gold—including his wedding band—just to complete a theatre production titled For Better or...
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New hearing technology brings sound to a little girl
Jiya Bavishi was born deaf. For five years, she couldn’t hear and she couldn’t speak at all. But when one reporter first meet her, all she wanted to do was say hello. Jiya is taking part in a clinical...
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Cory Thomas: lost in comics
Cory Thomas, Trinidad’s most successful comic book illustrator, is talking to the T&T Guardian from his home in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s a city that has become a vibrant hub of cool America with its...
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A domain dies
It isn’t every day that an entire email domain simply goes away, but that’s set to happen on June 30 when TSTT retires the @tstt.net.tt service it’s offered to its Internet customers for almost two...
View ArticleThe dangers of Us vs Them
Where the history books open to the beginning of international sport as we know it, with the first modern Olympiad on the cusp of the twentieth century in 1896, the pages lie sandwiched between a...
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Sticks, stones, words all break bones, all hurt me
I am not a nutcase. I’m not mental. Neither am I psycho, schizoid, cray-cray, retard, or any of the other things by which I’m labelled when you talk about me or; when you so ignorantly treat me like...
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