· December, 2009

Stories about Trinidad & Tobago from December, 2009

Trinidad & Tobago: Small Farmers

  4 December 2009

“Hopefully after viewing this you will be inspired to plant your own organic garden (i.e. if you don't have one already)”: Now Is Wow Too posts a video she recorded of an initiative by the students of a Trinidadian primary school.

Trinidad & Tobago: Carnival Breathalyser

  4 December 2009

Trinidad Carnival Diary says: “I think the breathalyser is a long time coming…though it will certainly take some adjusting to in a culture where there is a rum shop on practically every corner.”

Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados: We are the Windies

  4 December 2009

B.C. Pires thinks that Roebuck and Berry, two well respected names in the cricket fraternity, are “simply wrong…in their contention that the West Indies national cricket team should be allowed…to splinter into its constituent island teams and have the smaller, purportedly more strongly motivated teams seek Test-playing status on their...

Trinidad & Tobago: If Only…

  2 December 2009

In the third installment of her video series If I were Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Gab Hosein “takes on both the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting and the Copenhagen talks on Climate Change.”

Trinidad & Tobago: Gay Issues at CHOGM

  1 December 2009

gspottt says that “for the first time at a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting…in Trinidad & Tobago, there was significant representation of GLBTQ (gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/queer) activists among civil society participants, and a concerted effort to highlight issues of sexual citizenship and rights.”