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The failure of state-run secondary schools exacerbates classism as a result of mismanagement and social neglect by persistent administrations that have had a piece-meal approach to the crises yutes face in the education system. For 2015, in the allocation pool of 443 national scholarships, denominational schools took home a whopping 95% of the total number […]
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Over the course of three-days, yutes and youth development professionals from the Caribbean, including representatives from Barbados to Haiti/Ayiti and Cuba, and scholars from Mexico, UK, Canada and Germany, united to bring attention to the state of youth at the SALISES Caribbean Youth Development Conference. I was blessed with the opportunity to deliver the address […]
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I had the opportunity to sit down with Chronixx in a public reasonings, one week ago. Chronixx, one of reggae’s rising global stars who is often dubbed the “King of Reggae” in what is considered a “revival” of the artform shared some of his perspectives and philosophies at a Community Youth Gathering in Trinidad and […]
Continue ReadingMan from South, woman from Chaguanas, children in school uniforms from St. Joseph and university students walk in the new restaurant on the junction. Curepe is a place for local entrepreneurs exchanging cash day to day on the backs of brands we’ve known for years. In the mix of all of this, Tahira Bruce, cashier […]
Continue Reading“They say what we know Is just what they teach us; And we’re so ignorant ‘Cause every time they can reach us (shoobe, doo-wa) Through political strategy (shoo-be, doo-wa); They keep us hungry (shoobe, doo-wa), And when you gonna get some food (shoobe, doo-wa), Your brother got to be your enemy, we-e-ell! Ambush in the […]
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