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Carmichael, Stokely
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941–98, African-American social activist, b. Trinidad. He lived in New York City from 1952 and graduated from Howard Univ. in 1964. Carmichael participated in the Congress of Racial Equalitys freedom rides in 1961, and by 1964 was a field organizer for the Student
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Trinidad woman with COVID-19 flies home from Venezuela
(Trinidad Express) A 63-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national tested positive for Covid-19 virus prior to boarding the aircraft in Venezuela to return
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Actor Geoffrey Holder born
Actor Geoffrey Holder was born on the island of Trinidad, British West Indies.
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Dymally, Mervyn (1923- )
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally, an African American politician from Los Angeles, California who has served in the California Assembly, the State Senate and as a U.S. Congressman.  He is also the first African American Lt. Governor of California.  Dymally is now once again in the California
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1923
'Respect It and Leave It Alone': Michael B. Jordan Accused of Cultural Appropriation for Naming His Rum J'Ouvert, Critics Launch Petition Challenging Brand Trademark
Michael B. Jordan is the latest Black celebrity to venture into the spirits industry — joining the ranks of Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, […]
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Chef Kwame Onwuachi's Ultimate Quarantine Food & Drink Pairing
James Beard award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi is spending his time in quarantine cooking up some of his go-to comfort foods and helping us all create a perfect food and cocktail pairing while we’re
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More woes for Guyanese stranded overseas
The first batch of stranded Guyanese were repatriated on Saturday June 6 on a flight from Miami
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Padmore, George (1901-1959)
A journalist, radical activist, and theoretician, George Padmore did more than perhaps any other single individual to shape the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth
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Geoffrey’s Believe It or Not - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
AS TOLD TO BC PIRES My name is Geoffrey Frankson and what you are reading is not the truth. It’s not that I am telling lies. But that I don’t know the truth. I am Belizean/Jamaican. And Trini close to the bone. I met my Trinidadian wife, Gwyneth, in Oxford. She beautifully mothered Rober
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Above normal rainfall forecast for Caribbean
“However, with above normal rainfall expected over most of the Caribbean from July/August, drought concerns would greatly diminish with the southern islands of the Eastern Caribbean and Belize still having to be watchful,” it
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A step toward regulated cannabis in T&T | New York Carib News
A new report discusses a bill to legalize and regulate cannabis for medical, research, and religious purposes, with an eye toward export a move that is one big step closer to the development of a cannabis industry in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Western Cape braces for more cold, rainy weather | News24
Another cold front will make landfall, bringing strong winds to the south-western parts of the Western Cape.
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CXC must seriously reconsider its rigid July proposal
CXC’s proposal to use only Paper 1 (multiple choice) together with the students’ SBAs or IAs to assess them is seriously
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Port-au-Spain, Trinidad (1650- )
Port-au-Spain is the capital and third largest city of the island nation Trinidad and Tobago in the southwestern West Indies and north of the South American nation of Venezuela. The city, which is only about 5 square miles, had a population of 37,074 people in 2011 but its surrounding metropolitan
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Stranded: TT stickmen hauled off plane over PCR report in Spanish - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
JOEL BAILEY and STEPHON NICHOLAS There was chaos and confusion at the Santiago de Chile Airport on Tuesday as Trinidad and Tobago's junior hockey team were ordered off their Copa Airlines plane, scheduled to depart at 12.05pm local time. The TT under-21 players and support staff were returni
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L.A. Times To Settle Suit Over Race and Gender Bias, As Editor Promises Change
L.A. Times To Settle Suit Over Race and Gender Bias, As Editor Promises Change
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I favour inclusive governance rather than a shared PPP/C and PNCR Cabinet
I am aware that as I write, the biggest hurdle still stands before us – getting to and getting past the eventual Declaration that the PPP/C won our March 02, 2020 elections; that for the next five years the PPP/C will be sitting in the seat of our Government, still-young Irfaan Ali our President
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Shirley optimistic about Dolla Financial's purpose
It may even seem like a minor job for the elder statesman of finance, former executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, and top executive of leading Jamaica financial institution, National Commercial Bank for 35 years, yet it is anything but
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Trinidad: Former PNM minister's brother to run for UNC
Trinidad: Former PNM minister’s brother to run for UNC
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Sex worker arrested for raping 2 boys in Lilongwe | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
Police in Lilongwe have arrested 24-year old sex worker, Christina Masina, for sexually abusing two boys aged 4 and 15. Lilongwe police station Deputy Publicist sergeant Foster Benjamin has confirmed and said that Masina committed the offence on Monday night at Chigwirizano. 'Masina used to invite
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Guyana to benefit from IDB COVID-19 grant to region
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has received a grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help in the response to the (COVID-19 pandemic and Guyana will be among the
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Henderson invites TT to The Jazz in Me - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Dominican singer/songwriter and flautist Michele Henderson will be staging her virtual concert The Jazz in Me on May 22 at 8 pm.It will be live on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Digicel Go Loud, her Facebook page said. Henderson invited Trinidadians to view the event where "she will pay tribut
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Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007) - Birthday
Skinner was born on June 20, 1924 in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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'Put Down The Guns!' - St. Lucia Times News
A grieving mother who saw her son gunned down in her presence in Dennery on Monday night, has appealed to young men to abandon their guns. Sharon Flavius made the appeal in an interview with St Lucia Times. Flavius is the mother of Thomas Florent, 28, alias 'Cole' one of two men who sustained fatal
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T&T private sector pressing gov’t on COVID-19 concessions - Stabroek News
Socio-economic consequences arising out of official strictures associated with efforts to push back the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic threaten to spill over into the political arena in Trinidad and
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Iranian oil tanker reaches Venezuela
The first of five tankers carrying much-needed Iranian fuel and oil products entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday, a Venezuelan government official
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T&T security minister says protests 'carefully orchestrated'
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — National Security Minister Stuart Young yesterday described as “carefully orchestrated and pre-planned” the protests in the eastern part of the capital following the shooting deaths of three people by police over the
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'Hang It Up Sis': Fans Urge Karlie Redd to Stay Single After She Reportedly Divorces Mo Fayne
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HELP OR HURT? - Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger
Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at
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Drug bust seize more than TT$64m | New York Carib News
The Trinidad and Tobago police Monday said they had detained three people after drugs estimated at more than TT$64 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) had been seized during an anti-crime exercise on Sunday.
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