Yuh eva eat food and talk recession? Pick seasonin in yuh front yard and reason about the economy? Then Jean-Claude tell me dis: “Linked to the idea of youth is that someone is there to look after you. I think the nation is entering a general phase of adulthood where children are asking themselves questions …
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Recipe: Ital Pelau [Shiitake Mushroom]
Nazma Muller: As a child, Amilcar Sanatan was awakened on Saturday mornings by the spicy aroma of delectably seasoned meat as it cooked in bubbling brown sugar and hot oil. This, he would think, is what bliss smells like, as Aunt Valerina once again made her magic pelau. For Sanatan, a former president of the …
Classism 101: How the Government Fails Our Children
The failure of State-run secondary schools exacerbates classism socially and in the labour market as a result of mismanagement and neglect by persistent administrations that have had a piece-meal approach to the crisis yutes face in the education system. For 2015, in the allocation pool of four hundred and forty-three (443) national scholarships, denominational schools …
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Dear T&T, Amber Rose Is A Foreign Sketel
A sketel can be defined as: A promiscuous female A woman whose character is defamed and shamed through misogynist and sexist interpretations of her body that express a particular [patriarchal] social order based on the devaluing of women. Carnival gives us so much insight into our society and ourselves. I could not help but …