All posts on May 14th, 2018

Event marred by Soca man Blaxx cussing out Machel Montano This year, Trinidad’s most southernmost borough, Point Fortin, celebrated its 38th Anniversary “Borough Day” for 5-10 days, from April 29 to May 9. Highlight of this year’s celebration was Machel Montano, one of the biggest names in Soca in T&T performing for the first time in Point Fortin. And it caused a little bit of a sideshow when fellow artiste Blaxx threw shade at  Montano, by cussing him out and calling him the devil. So what is Borough Day? Point Fortin, which is near the southern tip of T&T, received …

People far more eloquent than I have written about mothers and why they’re so special, but three words immediately come to my mind: nurture, safety and love. The dictionary definition of mother is concise: “A woman in relation to her child or children.” In my opinion this definition is somewhat lacking as mothers are so much more. Actually, there may not be another word with deeper, more copious connotations in the English language than “mother.” Agatha Christie, the English novelist, makes no mystery of the bond between mother and child: “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else …

Gerry Thompson headlines a stellar group of Gospel singers for benefit concert on May 26 Worship and Praise for a cause Rosie Awori The award-winning musician and evangelist, Gerry Thompson, will be the star performer at the breast cancer benefit concert on May 26, at St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish. With over 12 CDs consisting of over 200 songs and about 300 DVDs to his credit, the Jamaican-born musical powerhouse has produced a string of inspirational hits, including Just a Closer Walk; I’M Glad To Be Home Again; God Isn’t Through With Me Yet, in several different genres including Gospel, …

Do you appreciate your good health and all of the beauty around you? The things that you take for granted, someone else is praying for. Sometimes we forget that we should be thankful for our everyday blessings; our minds are so clouded with thoughts of what we don’t have that we forget to be grateful for what we have right in front of us. We assume that what we have will ALWAYS be there, so we begin to take it all for granted. We take so many things in life for granted and develop an attitude of ingratitude. We forget …

KENYA A huge crack unexpectedly appeared in Kenya, causing astonishment and fright among residents. Scientists’ main theory around the crack is that an underlying superheated plume had caused it. A super plume occurs when a large mantle upwelling is convected to Earth’s surface. It forms at the mantle-core boundary and can result in earthquakes when they heat up. The crack, which is about the distance of Montreal to Winnipeg, continues to grow in size as a result of heavy rainfall in Kenya’s Narok County. It has sparked discussions around the splitting of Africa into two. Splitting a continent in two …