The Caribbean Yard Campus (CYC) is offering classes in local languages, grassroots organising and traditional medicine as part of their 2019 Dry Season Programme. The deadline for registration for the Programme is January 31. The courses include CYC’s first Conversational T&T Sign Language Course, entitled See Me Speak; Nou Ka Palé Patwa, which offers an … Continue reading
Healthcare consultant Leah Lewis will be hosting a workshop on February16 aimed at teaching employers how to create health and wellness programmes within their organisations. Lewis will facilitate the workshop, titled How to Create a Healthy Workplace, along with nutritionist James Harper. Lewis said the workplace is the perfect setting for focused efforts to be … Continue reading
The CEDAW (Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) Committee of T&T (CCoTT) held a working session on December 6 to examine the five specific recommendations made to the Government following the 2016 CEDAW review in Geneva. CcoTT convener Terry Ince said the five recommendations were wide-ranging and comprehensive. The working session brought together … Continue reading
The Rotaract Club of Port-of-Spain West, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Port-of-Spain, will be hosting its second Annual Fun Day for Children with Disabilities. The event will take place on December 8 at Nelson Mandela Park. Community Service Director 2018/2019, Mishaal Primer said the fun day is one of the club’s signature events … Continue reading
Founder of the Seizure Support Network (SSN), Dionne Baptiste, said the organization was formed with the aim of demystifying epilepsy and epileptics. She said contrary to popular belief, having seizures is not a death sentence. Originally published in the T&T Guardian on December 5, 2018 Baptiste said epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurring seizures, … Continue reading
World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 annually. In many places worldwide, including T&T, there is still a stigma attached to persons who have HIV and AIDS. Convener of the CEDAW (Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) Committee of T&T (CCoTT), Terry Ince, said the Convention has several articles … Continue reading
Khadine Ali-Rajah is the first ever psychologist to be certified in Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) in T&T. A branch of behavioural psychology, ABA is a research-based form of therapy which focuses on using positive strategies to change behaviour, and certified ABA therapists are in high demand worldwide. Ali-Rajah said therapists who pass the exam on … Continue reading
Audre Lorde, a lesbian mother warrior poet feminist activist with caribbean roots, ventured to the Caribbean in 1990 for vacation. She was almost denied entry to one Caribbean island because of her… Source: Jan15,2017. Audre Lorde’s experience of black self-hatred in the Caribbean
Yesterday evening, news broke that Rachael Sukhdeo dropped the domestic violence suit against her millionaire husband Sheron Sukhdeo, saying that they’ve since reconciled their issues. And, r… Source: What Don’t You F**king Get About Domestic Violence?
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Disaster time again, for our sisters and brothers in Haiti. Already the vultures circle, using this tragedy as another opportunity to take advantage or worse, to engage in the pornography of suffering black bodies. Now is not the time for tears, hand-wringing, there are lots of organisations that are quietly doing…
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