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Trinidad Focus: Young and Artsy

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It can take some people decades to find the courage to be a full-time artist. However, for 23-year-old painter and multimedia artist Richard Rampersad there was no question about what he wanted to do or his courage to do it.

 

“I am an artist. This

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KIARA' S BIG COMEBACK

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Model KIARA KABUKURU. a ninety's super-model with a Vogue cover, a Cover Girl contract and numerous editorial spreads under her belt is back on the scene shooting for several top photographers and receiving the nod from fashion indust

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In the wake of Jamaica's 51st Independence Day celebrations, I am proud to say I have published my 6th book on such an iconic day in history! As many are celebrating Jamaica's freedom, this book serves as a call for the personal freedom of men and wo

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Vanessa Mohammed, 35, was a flight attendant with BWIA for seven years before the airline closed to make way for CAL. It was a job she thought she excelled at, one she loved so much that she readily admits being left shocked and heartbroken when she

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Voicing Jamaica’s Past to Serve the Future

3665140935?profile=originalJamaican Sociologist Margaret Bernal launches newest book, Island Reliquaries – Voices from a Jamaica Past.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - As a Caribbean sociologist, writer and cultural heritage specialist, Margaret Bernal masterfully combines her skills as a

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Sharleen Chin, CEO at Meiling Inc. Ltd., recently won a very prestigious prize from the Women Innovators Network in the Caribbean to attend the 5th infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship in South Africa.

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Trinidad Focus: This is 60!

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As Trinidad and Tobago’s first Miss Universe headed towards her 60th birthday, one thought kept popping into her mind: “It doesn’t fit,” says Janelle Penny Commissiong Chow. And she doesn’t mean her clothes. On June 15, Penny, as she has always been

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Brazil's so-called "new middle class" gained recognition worldwide as a symbol of upward mobility. But the wave of demonstrations that brought millions out on to the streets in June has exposed the thin l

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