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Nobody will believe a word the Taliban say about the right of girls like Malala to go to school until they stop burning down schools and stop massacring pupils - Former UK PM and current UN global education envoy, Gordon Brown, responding to the oddball letter of non-apology to Malala Yousafzai

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Girl about Town

RachaelMy name is Rachael Davis and I’m a newspaper classified ads sales rep.

I’m from Siparia. All my life. I call it “Si-paria” but a lot of people call it “Sipa-ria”.

It was great growing up there. I’m more on the country side. Not too

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Thongs Sung Loud

My name is Yanic Thongs and I’m a customer service rep; I tell people which line to join.

 Yeah, Thongs is a weird name. I can’t say where I got it from, other than my father. And he got it from his. I got plenty ladies’ underwear heckle and plenty nicknames, like G-String. My name actually

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Mother Made I

Sonia4webMy name is Sonia Gadd and I am a tourism information officer with the Tobago House of Assembly.
 

I grew up at Plymouth. We could have walk to any of the beach, whether Back Bay or Arnos Vale from our house. And I went all the time. I have a genuine love of the beach. As a grownup now, I just paddle in the water. I still can’t swim.

I actually swam couple times. I could have been around 14, 15 and I was on this fishing boat and those guys knew I was afraid of the depth of water, so

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Sugar Man Found

Ram-BoneMy name is Ram Sahadeo and I worked 24 years in Caroni Ltd, starting off as an apprentice welder, and moving up  the ranks until I became chief engineer.

Everybody call me Ram. But some people in the industry, especially the lower rank people, just figure it was cool to call me “Dr Ram”. I don’t know, maybe

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Virtual Historian

angeloMy name is Angelo Bissessarsingh and I curate the Virtual Museum of Trinidad & Tobago.

I got the name Angelo because my father, an artist, is a huge disciple of the renaissance genius, Michelangelo. More specifically, he is a fan of the Seventies band, Brotherhood of Man, and they had a tune about some shepherd boy

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