With escalating crime in Trinidad & Tobago threatening to stymie the government’s priority to attract new foreign investment, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar hopes the senate will support the crime plan to give soldier
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A new study led by Ryerson University provides guidelines on how best to deliver diabetes self-management education programs to women in Black/Caribbean and Latin American communities – gender and ethnic groups where diabetes is
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When Iris John showed up for the first Black Diabetes Expo four years ago at the Jamaican Canadian Centre (JCA), she was in rough shape.   The diabetic blood sugar level was 2.9, which meant that she was approaching an
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Grade 12 student, Samira Mohamed, knows when to tell the truth.   Speaking at the first Youth in Policing Initiative (YIPI) after-school graduation at police headquarters last week, the C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institut
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Mikail (Miki) Batchasingh just couldn’t wait to graduate last year from the University of Toronto.   Anxious to secure his economics degree, the 25-year-old was also eager to return to Trinidad & Tobago to help th
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A Ghanaian-born Canadian university professor feels that the millions of dollars that MasterCard is investing in a $500 million global initiative to educate and develop next-generation African leaders could be better spent on stre
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An old friend – an American – has come to the defence of prized Canadian athlete Harry Jerome, who was ostracized by certain sections of the local media.   Prior to the 1960 Rome Olympics, sports writers had establi
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Trinidad & Tobago is open for business and the current government is committed to fostering sustainable growth through trade and investment, particularly with traditional partners like Canada, said T & T’s Prime Minister
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BAIE-MAHAULT: Haitian-American author, Edwige Danticat has been honoured by fellow writers for her book, Create Dangerously.   A pan-Caribbean awards panel, convened at the third International Congress of Caribbean Writ
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The argument for building a sustainable development tourism plan must be anchored in fundamental measures that will have a lasting effect, Trinidad & Tobago’s acting Prime Minister, Winston Dookeran, said in his feature addr
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