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La Pierre showcases intimate moods on pan
Steelpan soloist extraordinaire, Noel La Pierre, brilliantly performed a dazzling 20-plus selections on the tenor pan at Intimate Moods on Pan, his concert staged at the Kaiso Blues Café on Woodford...
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Fifa fo fum
…I smell the blood of a Trinidadian.Just a little Jack and the Beanstalk reference there—you know, to break the ice. The reporters who have been chopping at Jack’s beanstalk for years are finally...
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Too many dogs, not enough homes
Retired diplomat Susan Gordon rescued her first stray dog around three decades ago.It was easier then, she said, to find homes for the animals. Now changes in the way people live have made it more...
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Football lovers celebrate the Champions
It was a brilliant evening for football fans last Saturday as Spanish giants Barcelona faced “the old lady of Turin,” Italian legends Juventus in Berlin in the final of the UEFA Champions League. Fans...
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The Passing of Legends
Christopher Lee, an actor who brought dramatic gravitas and aristocratic bearing to screen villains from Dracula to the wicked wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died at age 93. Lee...
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Jazz Iconoclast, dies at 85
Ornette Coleman, the American saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died early on Thursday of cardiac arrest in Manhattan. He was...
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PM funds WeBeat 2015
Since its inception in 2001, the St James Community Improvement Committee, under the chairmanship of Earl Crosby, has struggled to stage its annual WeBeat St James Live event in June. It is now in its...
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Politicians, bankers, and businessmen cook for the Saints
When St Mary’s College Past Students’ Union stages its popular fund-raising event, Dining With The Saints, on June 27, patrons can expect an epicurean display of food of all descriptions.Some 100...
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Fans await fates in Game of Thrones finale
Millions of viewers around the world will be glued to their television sets on Sunday night for the finale of the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. The fantasy-drama series that is based...
View ArticleJAMES WOODS’ POKER LIFE IS CHARMED, TOO
Hollywood icon James Woods lives a charmed life, and it appears that extends to the poker table as well. Woods is off to a hot start in the 2015 World Series of Poker, with two cashes and a 7th-place...
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YoPro gives young professionals a food challenge
The doors opened, the kitchen heated up and the fun exploded at an action-packed networking experience at the T&T Hospitality and Tourism Institute in Chaguaramas on May 21. YoPro’s May signature...
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Something for everyone in Hyatt’s brunch
Some members of the media were treated to Hyatt Regency’s new brunch menu on June 6 Sunday Brunch at the Hyatt has become an established tradition and the new menu offered some traditional as well as...
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From Bollywood to T&T
In 2010 Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) came to T&T to film his popular movie Dulha Mil Gaya, now the well-known cricket enthusiast is taking on a new role as the owner of the ‘T&T Red...
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Drama, a life-changing experience for Victor Edwards
Victor Edwards has spent more than 35 years of his life working tirelessly to raise drama and theatre to a level of respectability and acceptability in T&T. Looking back, Edwards, 61, of Princes...
View ArticleClimate change adaptation and mitigation: Building capacity in T&T
David A SimmonsT&T, like most of its Caribbean neighbours and other Small Island Developing States (Sids), is very much aware of the global phenomenon of climate change and the extent to which...
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Strong collections take catwalk
The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) Fashion Week 2015 concluded on a high note last week Friday, June 5, with the celebration of students from the Caribbean Academy of Fashion and Design (CAFD)...
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Youth Beat enlivens St James
Last Tuesday was set aside for youths. YouthBeat, produced by the St James Police Youth Club under Officer Derrick Shabodie (Medal of Merit), is one of this year’s WeBeat Honorees, the other is...
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DeGazon all about the music
Machel DeGazon, also called MD, describes himself as an ambitious, charismatic and creative guy. And maybe the 26-year-old is not tooting his own horn, since the accounts clerk at Guardian Media Ltd...
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Paddle for the Planet raises awareness of environmental issues
Kayaks arrowed up the Chaguaramas coastline early on a Saturday morning as paddlers gathered to be part of Paddle for the Planet on June 6 from The Kayak Centre.The T&T Paddle for the Planet...
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Local lotions take off, from papaya to goat milk
Remember the days when your grandmother rubbed your skin with homemade coconut oil? Or during the holidays you were given aloes and egg for a good purging? And what about shining bush tea? A good salve...
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