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Fetting With the Saints an experience of CIC excellence

This year’s Feting With The Saints can only be described as opulent and extravagant. The 2023 fete was held on Saturday, 28th January on the CIC greens in St Clair. The last time I attended Fetting With the Saints, I was 17, on the M-Team, and helping organise the event. Back then, it was held on the school’s compound on Pembroke Street. The most premium thing at that fete was the Häagen Dazs…

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Aunty Pearl’s toucan’t and the perils of the internet

Aunty Pearl’s toucan’t and the perils of the internet

If you’ve been wondering what’s with those memes on a woman with bright make up is about, in essence, this woman who I’ll just call Aunty Pearl, uploaded pictures from her most recent makeup workshop. She was clearly quite pleased with the finished product. Problem was, the makeup was bad, oh so bad, with one woman who had a colour pallet comparable to that of a toucan. At first people started to…

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The Argument for Marijuana Legislation in T&T - Let's start the conversation

The Argument for Marijuana Legislation in T&T – Let’s start the conversation

Cannabis has had an unfair reputation for many decades. Since the 50s anti-marijuana propaganda spread unscientific facts about cannabis which includes being told that marijuana is addictive, a gateway drug, and is all round immoral because it causes laziness and free thought in the youth – the greatest of sins. The reality is, many of these notions have been debunked both by scientists and by…

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People please! Pay attention to Pokémon Go (That means you Trinis...)

People please! Pay attention to Pokémon Go (That means you Trinis…)

Rachael Espinet

Hey business owners of Trinidad and Tobago. Do you want to be the best? The very best, like no one ever was? Well, I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the game called Pokémon Go that has had all of social media talking. Since our mainstream media cares very little about the game, I’m here to tell you the reasons why you should take it seriously.

For now, Pokémon Go is not available…

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Periscope politics and power to the people

Periscope politics and power to the people

Rachael Espinet

A photograph shows a sit-in protest by Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday intended to spur legislative action on gun control reforms in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting attack. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted the photograph to her Twitter profile Wednesday evening. Photo by Sen. Elizabeth Warren/Twitter

  Let’s be real, camera…

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Keep up the good work Sat! Your words will help end child marriage in T&T

Keep up the good work Sat! Your words will help end child marriage in T&T

  Few people will believe this, but Sat Maharaj is the greatest entity that will help end child marriage in T&T. You see, his statements are always so unbelievably archaic and antiquated that the general public will automatically retch with disgust every time Sat opens his mouth.

Oh Sat, everything regarding the nation is our business.

By 7.15 pm on Indian Arrival Day the citizens of the country…

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My resolution - my promise

My resolution – my promise

Painting by Kristofer Granger

  Dear me,

You do not have to be anything. You do not have to be right. You do not have to be a student. You not have to be smart all the time. You do not have to know everything, and you don’t have to fight all the time. You don’t have to exercise every day. You do not have to write every day. You do not have to have that perfect writer image you have of yourself.…

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The Problems of Gender Identity

The Problems of Gender Identity

By Rachael Espinet

Social media has once again been turned into a battleground of debate, this time surrounding recent events involving the Aria Night Club on Ariapita Avenue. If you were not aware, the night club attempted to charge a female patron $120, on a ladies free night, because she was supposedly dressed like a man…whatever that is supposed to mean. While I will categorically state that…

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The Fault in our Millennials #apathy

The Fault in Our Millennials

So I really, really, really, wanted to start of this blog in high praise of Millennials and the unsung work that they do and the clichéd untapped resources of Gen Y. However, current events bar me from addressing the positive side of Generation Me, and go straight to the faults in our Millennials and one of those faults is our apathy.

On the first day of Semester II…

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Though my eyes -- Dyslexic and upside down

Being dyslexic is not easy.

I would know.

I am one of the 700 million people in the world born with the language based learning disability.

As a result of this, I spent the former part of my life believing I was stupid and the latter part trying to come to terms with that feeling of inadequacy.

October is Dyslexic Awareness Month and speaking as a person who was taught about dyslexia the hard…

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Procrastination: A Writer’s Best Tool

“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

What mood is that?

Last-minute panic.”

― Bill Watterson

Procrastination is a bitch. I would know. I have a persistent procrastination problem. Yes, I suffer from procrastination – actually that’s not true, I quite enjoy it. Anyway, for my sanity I told myself I will write something on procrastinating as I am a…

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Yes this is my boggart coming out of my closet.

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The brilliant dog

Three times today mummy calls me to put out the dog. First two times I put out Munchkin. The third time I discovered that Taffy snuck into the house and hid under the couch. After putting the dogs out and closing the back door I went back to my room. An hour past and I went into the kitchen to get some water where I found my mother making a cheese and jam sandwich (I know, gross). Mummy turns around and says you just came out for the cheese. Thinking she is talking to me I say no. Turns out she was talking to Munchkin who came out from sleeping in the corner where she was hiding. Mummy looks at me and says she is smarter than you. I should have sent her to university instead. Not even feeling offended I said, no mum, she is smarter than all of us, that's why you are giving her some cheese now.

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WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

It is impossible to state only one place in the whole planet I would like to visit. From Stonehenge to the Nazca Lines and everything around I would like to experience it all. What I would like is a TARDIS to take me anywhere in the Universe.

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The reason why I write (A Poem).

My Words

I cannot dance.

I try to move to the beat,

but I can’t,

I have two left feet.

  I cannot…

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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things..."

My first blog post. I hope you enjoy ;)