By the time of publication, Sing de Chorus would have completed eight performances—including a morning show for students at a discounted price. Sing de Chorus is a calypso musical written by Rawle Gibbons. It is the first part of his trilogy of calypso musicals tracing the history of calypso from …
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Thailand edge T&T 1-0 in Bangkok, Humphrey injury scare after nasty fall
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will leave the Far East empty-handed after a 1-0 loss to Thailand today in international friendly action in Bangkok. Trinidad and Tobago are 32 places higher than Thailand in the FIFA rankings—90 to 122—but there was little sign of such superiority at …
Read More »SSFL 18 (Round-up): ‘Pres’ stay out front; but San Juan North maintain pursuit
Defending Secondary School Football League (SSFL) Premier Division champions Presentation College (San Fernando) reeled off their eighth win of the 2018 season today, as they held off hosts St Augustine Secondary 2-1 in action this evening. The result saw the “Pres Lions” stretch their lead atop the standings from two …
Read More »Valencia Secondary vs East Mucurapo Secondary
St Mary’s College vs San Juan North Secondary
St Benedict’s College vs Fatima College
St Augustine Secondary vs Presentation College (San Fernando)
Queen’s Royal College vs Trinity College East
Naparima College vs St Anthony’s College
Carapichaima East Secondary vs Bishop’s High School (Tobago)
The cost of marginalising Tech-Voc Education: a country of ‘technicians’ but not ‘technologists’
“The idea that bright students use their brains rather than their hands continues to haunt the Education System; it has a demonstrably negative effect on the Tech-Voc subjects. “[…] The result of this prejudice is that we have technicians but not technologists, that we produce students who can repair shoes …
Read More »From romance to reality (Pt 2): how Compte de Lopinot forcibly enslaved free Africans
The well known, formerly enslaved, black abolitionist, Mary Prince, cogently argued in her autobiography in 1831: “How can slaves be happy when they have the halter round their neck and the whip upon their back?” Prince was directly confronting the lie of slave owners and other apologists for slavery that …
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