Youth/Yute and Student Development Archives

The Rights of the Child, Race Matters and Political Media

Posted on August 7, 2020April 23, 2025 by amílcar sanatan

Both the People’s National Movement and the United National Congress have posted photographs of children in the images of campaign engagements. Children in political media is not a problem in itself, some children in the media are children and relatives of candidates, children of prominent community political activists and also children whose parents explicitly authorised […]

Why Naparima Girls Are Closest To Heaven

Posted on July 2, 2017April 23, 2025 by amílcar sanatan

For Fariah Hyatali This is not a school on a hill, it is a school built within one. On my arrival I was made small against the giant rise of classroom and administrative buildings. The ninety-year old tamarind tree is the legacy of the yard. Currently, the Sarah Morton dormitory of the ancestral cohort of […]

I Geh Lixx Too

Posted on April 24, 2014March 7, 2026 by amílcar sanatan

What happened? Mother took a traditional “disciplinary” method (probably inherited from her mother) with a traditional value system and enforced this violence on her daughter on a non-traditional communication medium. Basically, she beat she chile on a digital main road. Throughout the week, I engaged (and sometimes endured) long and drawn-out debates with people, speaking […]