An ode to Labour Day
Labour day will be celebrated today in Trinidad and Tobago. It is an annual public holiday that originated in 1973. It is the anniversary of the Butler Oilfield Riots which took place in 1937. In...
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Sarav brings Chakraborty, Guha
Lovers of Indian classical music are in for a treat on June 27 as Sarav Entertainment presents renowned Indian singer and musician Kaushiki Chakraborty and tabla player Subhajyoti Guha live in concert....
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NCIC to open digital research centre
The National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) will open a digital research centre by year’s end. According to president of the NCIC, Dr Deokienanan Sharma, it will likely become the most modern centre...
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Taking De Roaring 70s to New York
Marva Newton is a calypso enthusiast who plays guitar, produces concerts and events and manages media and publicity for several artistes and artisans. In this piece exclusive to the Sunday Arts...
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Crichlow stands on Living Ground
Kenwyn Crichlow’s latest solo show LIVING GROUND: paintings of Light, Circumstance and Experience, opens at Y Art Gallery on June 29. “Painting is the pathway, a processual to the secret landscape of...
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Close Call for Some Cyclist
Martine PowersIt’s been three months since the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure began its campaign to encourage motorists to yield the innermost lane to cyclists on the road surrounding Queen’s...
View ArticleThe EMA and wildlife species management
In 2010, the Environmental Management Authority of T&T (EMA) launched the Nariva Swamp Restoration, Carbon Sequestration and Livelihoods Project as an active response to the dire need for...
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Cuban saxophonist visits Trinidad
Jazz lovers can get ready for a thrilling exchange of musical ideas and melodies when celebrated Cuban saxophonist Emir Santa Cruz performs in Port-of-Spain at the end of this month.Hosted by the...
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US judge: Gay rights are human rights
Trinidad-born, US-based Judge G Helen Whitener says the rights of LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) people are human rights and they are asking for respect and the right...
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The glam Caribbean ‘staycation’ is for real
You have done the New York to Miami shopping thing so many times. Your clothes racks are crumbling beneath the weight of too many garments and you are on a shoe-diet until you build the bigger, better...
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Moon shines brightly
After the Proscenium Theatre Company’s production of Errol John’s Moon on a Rainbow Shawl at The Little Carib, it’s not difficult to see why the play won John England’s prestigious Observer Best New...
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London’s first Caribbean Carnival?
During the summers of the mid-1960s, social worker Rhaune Laslett persuaded Russ Henderson and his steelband trio to parade on the streets of Notting Hill at different events she had. The complex...
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Looking toward improved mental health care in T&T
One of the most common requests from people who reach out to me through email or through messaging at the Facebook page Mental Health Matters, T&T, is for direction to mental health services in...
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Carmona praises president of Howard University
A St Mary’s College old boy from Diego Martin is now heading one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges in the US— Howard University. Wayne Frederick is one in a long line of scholars from T&T...
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Texting the New World
It’s always a salutary call when one of that rare species—a reader of the local press—asks what my column is about. I often ask myself the same question, as on a morning like this surveying the...
View ArticleImperialism, greed explored in Berlin on a Donkey
The National Theatre Arts Company presents Berlin on a Donkey, a satirical nod toward the 1885 Berlin Conference and the global realities that would follow the infamous meeting organised by then German...
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Couva convent student cops JA Achiever of the Year Award
Meiling Chan Chow, a Form 4 student of Holy Faith Convent, Couva, captured the prestigious Achiever of the Year Award when Junior Achievement of T&T (Jatt) held its 45th annual Future Unlimited...
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What happens in the chrysalis
One academic year in Alta has been a tremendous year of success in delivering free literacy classes to hundreds of students, as well as engaging in activities that realised some major goals in...
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Merikin queen celebrates 100
Irene Isabella Dickson Johnson, T&T Guardian’s oldest subscriber and a proud descendent of the Merikins, who fought in the War of 1812, celebrated her 100th birthday last week.Among those sending...
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Start spreading the news
I’m looking up at the mantelpiece in a house on Staten Island, reading a plaque that says “Jesus Never Fails.” Simultaneously, ABC News on the television is broadcasting rolling coverage of the...
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