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Mar 09, 2010
If you've not seen it yet, go to YouTube and have a gander at Rachel Price's videoblog in reaction to the purported resignation of Calder Hart from UdeCott,which she posted over the weekend. She raises interesting questions (in her own, often very funny way, making you laugh over t'ing
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Mar 06, 2010
My wife's many talents - magazine publisher, photographer, aromatherapist, babe - include making natural soap infused with essential oils. She starts from scratch and, when she's done, her friends have highly personalized, useful and thoughtful gifts; and the kitchen, which passes for soap
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Mar 04, 2010
Here is the full version of the "As Bajan as Flying Fish" that appeared in the Nation this morning.
My name is Yvonne Goslin and I am a lollipop lady at a primary school.
I'm from St George. But I grew up in St Lawrence.
I have one daughter. I had two sons but now I only have one. Next month is 13 years he died in a car accident. That's why I do this work. Because I know how it is to
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Mar 03, 2010
Sometimes, the blog writes itself, sometimes I write it, some other times, like today, my pardners are seeing the ball so well, all I have to do is introduce them. Here are, first, the latest letter my pardner Gregors has sent the Trini papers; I hope someone, somewhere is collecting
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Mar 02, 2010
A pardner called in anguish from Canada. "Oh gorm," he bawl out like Spranglang. "Somebody tell me we lost to Zimbabwe in the Twenty-20 at the Oval; tell me it ent so!"
What I could tell the poor tess? As exciting as it is - and anyone who says it isn't exciting hasn't watched one- there
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Feb 28, 2010
In Trinidad & Tobago, WASA, the Water & Sewerage Authority, is rationing water (as if people in St Anns and Cascade will be able to tell - as the calypsonian said, is no wonder that water and sewerage come under the same authority).
In Barbados, the same thing is very likely to
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Feb 25, 2010
Went to the launch of Frances-Anne Solomon's Best of Caribbean Tales Film Festival at the Frank Collymoore Auditorium on Tuesday evening; what a good night it was, though half the delight was just knowing that it was a film festival getting out the local well-heeled and not a prayer
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Feb 23, 2010
Last day, as my old French teacher used to say, we were talking about crossword clues. I'd given you a few of the ones I liked from recent Telegraph cryptic crosswords, lights or clues that made me chuckle when I solved them (with the odd steups or two thrown in for good measure). Here, then, are
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Feb 21, 2010
Still recuperating from a sneak bug that gives you the cold for five days but DRAINS your energy for twice that long. Took an hour of what should have been healing poolside relaxation today and feel like I'm running a marathon when everyone else is doing a dash.
But at least the mind
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Feb 19, 2010
For my own selfish reasons - "my own selfish" being a piece of redundancy I choose to keep (apppps!) - last week's TGIF remains up this week. Despite my own wife's displeasure at David's great song and the tragedy of Haiti being associated with the Silver Fux (aaaaaps!) - she was
