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Caribbean in Cannes: paving the way for new voices
Nneka Luke, external relations director at the T&T Film Festival (TTFF), recently represented the TTFF at the world famous Cannes Film Festival. In Cannes, Luke met representatives from other...
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Stand and shake your booty while reading this
When I was about eight years old and growing up among bougainvillea and oil fields, I hated to sit in class all day.I would stand at my desk and diligently do my work. “Please sit,” the best teacher in...
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Everton Blender to star in 2015 Emancipation
Everton Blender of Jamaica and Awa Sangho the Grammy nominee from Mali are among the international stars who will light up the 2015 Emancipation stage. They will be joined by a number of top local and...
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Why are You Here? Akosua’s life-changing African experience
When high achieving MBA holder Akosua Dardaine-Edwards went to take up a job in war-ravaged Uganda advising a women-led business there, she wasn’t expecting to be the one who was taught. But that’s...
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Tale of Two Snake Lovers
Mike G Rutherford The obsession that a few people have for snakes is hard for many others to understand. It is even harder to grasp when that obsession is for venomous snakes. However, there are...
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Innovating SMEs, kind of
If Professor Abhijit Bhattacharya, the feature speaker for the recent Tatt event Innovating SMEs had begun his talk where he ended it, it would have been quite something. The lavish gathering, held in...
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‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns with Instagram
He stands in the northbound lane of Vietnam’s Highway 1, traffic swirling around him, horns honking. He is pointing. Right there, he says—that’s where it happened. That’s where the screaming children...
View ArticleAre we heading towards chaos?
What goes around, comes around. We have seen this kind of political drama before. It’s been going round and round for thousands of years. Governments revolve in a cycle; it’s still as true today, as it...
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Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution
"People don't believe I'm Japanese," says Miss Japan.Ariana Miyamoto is the first mixed-raced woman to ever be crowned Miss Universe Japan, but she’s not getting the attention she deserves.With a...
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Meet Island XoXo, the new Caribbean dating site
BRADES—Caribbean people looking for love have a new platform to help them find that special someone.Island XoXo, a new dating website targeting Caribbean nationals, went live on June 8. XoXo means...
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Kayaking Adventures
There’s a special passion kayakers share, whether they paddle for pleasure, sport or simply to achieve a zen-like bliss out on the water.Jahson Alemu, a tall, dreadlocked young man who is a marine...
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Still living under the umbrella of stigma
It was the 70s. I was a fifth-former. Fresh from hospitilisation for “observation,” I ventured into Princes Town to do errands. As I approached King street where I lived, I remembered I had to stop by...
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Mac Farlane among new Art Society patrons
The Art Society of T&T (ASTT) is proud to announce its newest patrons of the arts as of May 12. The official announcement came at the opening launch of the recent, Light in Nature and Culture,...
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Is it possible to eliminate suicide?
Road safety: It’s become one of Sweden’s most successful exports—right up there with flat-pack furniture and affordable fashion. Back in 1997, the Swedish parliament adopted a policy known as Vision...
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Sing De Chorus
According to production director Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel, in a statement on the programme, it proved “an exhilarating challenge to transform the properly manicured teenaged ladies of St Francois...
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Nurses urged to develop their profession
“Let us reimagine where we want nursing and midwifery to be in T&T in ten years time and work towards that goal. We must always be able to stand up and proudly say we are nurses and this means...
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Freeing labour from history
Review of The Price of Conscience: Howard Noel Nankivell and Labour Unrest in the British Caribbean in 1937 and 1938, Hansib, 2015.The icon of the labour movement in T&T is TUB Butler. His image...
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‘It means more than models on catwalks’
For the first time the taste of Caribbean fashion will feature in the Pan Am Games 2015 in Toronto, Canada. Trinidad’s very own fashion designer Richard Young will partner with Joan Pierre, the...
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I’m All (ways) Right Jack
I’m taking a brief digression from my series on Caribbean historiography (how Caribbean history is constructed) to deal with two pressing matters, both of which by next week will find their place in...
View ArticleInstitute gives teens finishing touch
The August vacation is coming up and it’s the time to find interesting activities or programmes for children to keep them occupied. These programmes should be educational, stimulating and also...
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