Barrackpore West wins Intercol boys title Cedros grabs girls crown
Jelani BecklesSunday, May 11, 2014Barrackpore West Secondary made amends for last year’s disappointment, as captain Keron Kanhai and Jeron Maniram led the team to the Powergen Secondary Schools Inter
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Autistic children playing the waiting game
Melissa DoughtySunday, May 11, 2014An autistic child attends a music class at the Dora Alonso Center for autistic children in Havana in 2008. Reuters File PhotoFive schools for special children were to...
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Part II Point Fortin in a state of prosperity
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, May 11, 2014Downtown Point Fortin in the late 1950s.In 1904 Point Fortin and Guapo were wildernesses.
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Jewelry in the box but outside the lines
Marsha PearceSunday, May 11, 2014Diamond sea urchin ring and chocolate pearl ring by Barbara Jardine. Photos: Marsha PearceEarrings, necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry gleam and twinkle at Y Art...
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Brain Coral shreds at Fringe Fest
Janine Charles-FarraySunday, May 11, 2014Soul singer John John Francis and violinist Inge Schluer on stage with Dayo Bejide during the 2014 After Jazz Fringe Fest in Tobago. Photo courtesy: Scott...
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The kids aren’t okay
BC PiresSunday, May 11, 2014Onata Aprile as Maisie in What Maisie Knew, today’s best film.Today’s Also Rans include a recent former pick (*Marley, 12.10 pm midday Max) a film version of a book you’d...
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‘Love, support your children’
Charles Kong SooSunday, May 11, 2014Helen Bartlett in the course of beating her 12-year-old daughter with a belt for posting sexually-explicit photos of herself on Facebook. Taken from an April...
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Doggie dandruff
Kristel Marie RamnathSunday, May 11, 2014Cheyletiella is a genus of mites that commonly affect dogs and occasionally people. These mites live on the surface of the skin and do not burrow into deeper...
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Festival shows changing landscape of Euro film
Sunday, May 11, 2014Members of the cast of Nairobi Half Life, a 2012 Kenyan crime drama. The film screens at the 2014 European Film Festival.Nairobi Half Life, a 2012 crime drama that was Kenya’s first...
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Debbie JacobSunday, May 11, 2014Almost everyone loves a good love story, so it is not surprising that many followers of the late great Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez consider his b
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Monday, May 12, 2014Global business confidence is on the up, but the global economic recovery could be seriously flawed, reveals new research from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants...
View ArticleNeed for post-SEA strategy
Monday, May 12, 2014After the emotional high wire of last Thursday, when more than 18,000 students sat the Secondary Entrance Assessment exam, the conversation has begun again about whether this...
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Discover a whole new world
Debbie JacobMonday, May 12, 2014Well, students, the SEA is over, and that means there is time for you to start many new ventures, and that includes reading. You no longer have excuses not to read.
View ArticleThe elite fiddles while Trinidad burns
Marc de VerteuilMonday, May 12, 2014I felt like I was on the set of a movie I once saw. I’ve long forgotten the name, but it was about a war-torn Central American state. The scene was a luxury hotel...
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Police technology unit needed, not death penalty
Prakash PersadMonday, May 12, 2014Technology, both advanced and emerging, is being used in most human endeavours; from earning material wealth to spiritual wealth. Criminal gangs and anti-social...
View ArticleSeetahal made ‘profound contribution to Caribbean jurisprudence’
Monday, May 12, 2014The Grenada Bar Association (GBA) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the brutal and senseless killing of Dana Seetahal, SC—a highly and widely respected senior attorney,...
View ArticleRamdin must lead from front
Anand RampersadMonday, May 12, 2014Congratulations to Denesh Ramdin on being named the 35th test captain of the West Indies since its first test match in 1928.
View ArticleHeat for New Age Ballerz in Youth final
Monday, May 12, 2014Point-guard Canaan Donawa scored 14 points as Valencia Heat defeated Maloney Pacers 59-50 to stay unbeaten after six matches in the Powerade/Toyota Boys Under-21 Big-Four...
View ArticleCrawford warns volleyballers no shortcut to success
Sunday, May 11, 2014T&T Olympic Gold medallist of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Hasely Crawford is swamped by members of the senior national women’s volleyball team after he delivered a “pep-talk” to...
View ArticleUnapologetic and loud - he always did it his way
Monday, May 12, 2014The following is the eulogy delivered by Richard Gordon, nephew of the late Horace Gordon, former sports editor of the Trinidad Guardian.
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