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Cricket Legend Alvin Kallicharran returns to T&T after 20 years
The Sunday Guardian had the privilege, courtesy of the T&T Cricket Board, to sit down for a special interview at the Queen’s Park Oval with West Indian batting legend Alvin Kallicharran during his...
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Prof Bridget Brereton: A passionate historian
Bridget Brereton is professor emerita of History at the St Augustine (Trinidad) campus of the University of the West Indies. She has served as head of the Department of History, as deputy campus...
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Michael Anthony T&T’s literary giant
No one has documented more of T&T’s history than Michael Anthony. The sprightly and spirited 84-year-old is this country’s go-to historian, a local literary giant, published author of some 30...
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‘Red Cross gets the feminine touch’
Recently retired from the Public Service where she spent 31 years of her working life, Delia Chatoor now has more time to devote to her role as president of the T&T Red Cross Society. Her...
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Ray Funk Seduced by T&T and Carnival
When Trinis think of Alaska, they think mostly of Eskimos and igloos. But when you meet retired Alaskan trial judge, Ray Funk, those stereotypes disappear quickly. The tall and bearded Alaskan is...
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Coach Hart sets goal to take Soca Warriors to the World Cup again
After honing his football coaching skills in Canada for a number of years, his last assignment as that country’s national men’s senior team coach, 54-year-old Stephen Hart has been in the unenviable...
View ArticleWhen polio stopped Carnival in 1972
With the threat of the Ebola virus, the question has been posed as to whether Carnival 2015 should be postponed or even cancelled. Many have pointed to a similar scenario in 1972 when Carnival was...
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Azim Bassarath: Man in charge of T&T Cricket
The tumultuous and unfortunate aborted tour of India by the West Indies cricket team has brought to the fore the opinions and involvement of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB), which is headed by 57-year...
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Atiba Phillips mover and shaker
Atiba Phillips is a young mover and shaker who has embraced the challenge of encouraging our youth through the use of technology, in areas such as agriculture. To that end, he set up a non-profit...
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Donell ‘Bravo’ Thomas - Starring at Silver Stars
Electric and energetic are words that capture the spirit that 31-year-old Donell “Bravo” Thomas brings to his role as music director/drill master and more so, conductor of the PCS Nitrogen Silver Stars...
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Christmas reflections from the Mount
In this festive and holy Christmas season, the Sunday Guardian sought out the quiet-spoken and reflective Fr John Pereira, abbot of Mount St Benedict Monastery in St Augustine, for the last in this...
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Jessel Murray the conductor in command
Energetic and in command is the best way to characterize the tall, shaven-head Jessel Murray, artistic director/conductor of the T&T National Steel Symphony Orchestra (NSSO). Murray and the NSSO...
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Lorraine Pouchet - Leading the mas for 2015
As the new chairman of the National Carnival Commission (NCC), Lorraine Pouchet brings a wide range of experience and abilities that are well-suited to taking on the challenges that come with ensuring...
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Monique Nobrega - The flying mas woman - On top of her game
It’s Carnival time again! Many of our readers have probably been piloted by Monique Nobrega on their trips abroad without knowing it. They also may not have known that they were being taken safely to...
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Committed to Law and Order
Retiring from the T&T Coast Guard/Defence Force in 2011 after almost 30 years, visions of relaxing and taking it easy with his family were just a dream for Lieutenant Commander Garvin Heerah.Called...
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Legends of Carnival
Today, NASSER KHAN starts a two-part series that takes a look back at the contributions to our Carnival art forms—mas, calypso and steelpan. The first features the legendary masmen and women who...
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Calypso & Steelpan
In part two of Legends of Carnival, Nasser Khan takes a broad look at the steelpan and calypso art forms and some of their major pioneers and exponents. These art forms make up the triumvirate of the...
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No letting up
At 82 years old and one of T&T’s most avid and prolific historians, Fr Michael Anthony de Verteuil CSSp, former principal (1978-1992) of his alma mater of St Mary’s College in Port-of-Spain, still...
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Are you his type?
From being a licenced/registered pharmacist in the public sector to a pharmacy manager in the private sector, this International Masters of Business Administration (Health Management) holder is the...
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Pan jumbie
Her e-mail address, steelpanlady@... is the handle which epitomises the passion for which yet another non-national, though resident in T&T, has for our national instrument.Enamoured by the pan...
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