- 3 April, 2025
LAST SHIP WITH INDENTURED IMMIGRANTS – 106 YEARS AGO
The vessel was SS Ganges, which docked at Nelson Island on April 22, 1917 with 421 labourers, seven having died during the tumultuous voyage across the “kali pani” (dark waters).
GOBAR IN OUR MODERN WORLD
COW dung, commonly known as gobar, has a crucial value in the modern world.
Many rural families in Trinidad and Tobago and other countries where there are many cows would have been acquainted with gobar.
DOUBLES AND DIPLOMACY
WHAT do doubles, the hugely-popular Trinidad and Tobago-created street food, have in common with high-stakes international diplomacy?
WITH SLIGHT PEPPER, T&T’S DOUBLES RISES AGAIN
THE sight of basketball television commentators savouring doubles during a recent high-profile game is yet another indication of the appeal of this Trinidad and Tobago-created street food.
WHAT MACHEL DIDN’T LEARN FROM SADHGURU
HINDU sage Sadhguru frequently talks about apologising for errors and misjudgments. Machel Montano clearly missed that advice.
CHUTNEY-SOCA TAKES A TURN
The pre-Carnival event named a song on national unity, “We are One,” by veteran Daddy Chinee, as the overall winner of a competition in which 80 contenders entered the preliminaries.
MACHEL: TM, YOGA AND ME
SOCA superstar Machel Montano has been speaking of the impact that transcendental meditation has had on him.
Montano said he has been practising TM and yoga since the year 2000 and they have positively influenced his creativity and his life generally.
MACHEL AND THE ‘MOTHER OF ALL MAS’
THEY said it would be the mother of all Carnivals. They said there would be rich creativity, innovative productions, and huge numbers of enthusiastic visitors.
ACCLAIMED HINDU LEADER VISITS T&T
Trinidadian-born Canadian citizen Dr Balliram Chadee, 60, has thousands throughout the world listening to his lectures and following his charities.
WHAT ROHLEHR DIDN’T TELL US
NOW that the breathless tributes to Professor Gordon Rohlehr have subsided, I feel safe to emerge with a sober view. This is not to subtract from my appreciation of Rohlehr as possibly the definitive academic voice on calypso before ethnic politics became entrenched in Trinidad and Tobago.
