Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

FLOW and its employees went all out in support of Health and Wellness month in October, it said in a release. Among its activities was donating hundreds of items to cancer patients at the Caura Palliative Care Unit. In the October 31 news release, Flow said the items were presented by Simone Martin-Sulgan, its vice […]

A Trinidadian growing grapes in Japan has been dubbed “the rarest man in Japan,” by an African-American influencer who featured the farmer in a one-minute video shared on Instragram. Kawaii Coco’s feature on 62-year-old Franklyn Hutchinson has been viewed by over 15,000 views after it was posted in early October. In her video, the creator […]

The TT Football Association (TTFA) made a bold strike to success by appointing former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke, one of the country’s most talented and widely respected footballers. There’s no question that the coaching that Mr Yorke experienced during his career and the cumulative impact of his remarkable performances, which included captaining the TT […]

“Think of something happy,” seems like a fairly harmless thing to say. That is because your mind is not a mousetrap for misery like mine. Ask me to think a happy thought and I got nothing. Ask me to think of something painful and there’s a stampede. In last week’s column I said all I […]

This year’s bright Divali messages remind us again of the spiritual and moral options we still have in removing the darkened conditions now facing us. As President Christine Kangaloo, Dr Rowley, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and National Council for Indian Culture President and Independent Senator Deoroop Teemal strove to explain, Divali’s message of light over […]

Trinidad and Tobago is seldom mentioned, whatever the reason, in the world’s leading non-English newspapers. Yet last week we appeared in none other than El País, Spain’s equivalent of Le Monde (France), the Times (UK), the Washington Post (US), Corriere della Sera (Italy) and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It was a totally by-the-way mention, but […]

My October 31 plans included attending a friend’s Divali light-up, then joining two visiting Norwegian friends for a Divali event at Tropikist Hotel. I had learned of this open-to-the-public offering through a chef friend working there. Shortly after 2.30 pm that Thursday, I drove to a “valleyish” area to investigate an issue involving some dogs […]

WEARING crimson and saffron saris, accentuated with flowing iridescent orhnis (a traditional Indian headscarf), Dynamic Dance Fusion, an all-girl group of young, graceful dancers, captivated the audience at El Socorro South Community during its annual Divali celebrations. The event took place on October 27 at Chanka Trace and Parray Street. Guests at the well-attended celebration […]

A road repair crew from a private contractor working in Erin was beaten and robbed by armed assailants on November 1. The three victims, employees of Kallco, told police they were doing roadworks at Jengal Trace when three men approached them with cutlasses, guns and T-shirts covering their faces around 11 am. The supervisor said […]

LOCAL franchise holder of TGI Fridays, which has three restaurants in Trinidad, says the decision of the parent company to file for bankruptcy protection in the US on November 2 will not affect local branches. CEO of Prestige Holdings Ltd Simon Hardy, franchise holder for TGI Fridays, said the bankruptcy will only affected the 39 […]