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5 days ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
News WHEN the government declared a state of emergency (SoE) late last year, the public reaction was mixed but mostly hopeful. But was it enough? Former executive director of the National Operations Centre and regional security expert Garvin Heerah believes the SoE served an important but limited purpose.
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6 days ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
Features In Trinidad and Tobago, countless children are being left behind in the classroom, not because they are incapable of learning but because they are not being taught in the way they need. Some are labelled as lazy, dunce or harden by adults, so they eventually withdraw, act out or fall through the cracks.
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6 days ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
Features DEBRA THOMPSON’S life is a testament to the fact that strength can grow from broken ground. Thompson, 55, is the director of Tuff Farms Ltd, a family business she owns with her husband Richard Thompson in Freeport. Tuff Farms teaches hydroponics, builds hydroponic systems, and contracts hydroponic produce for purchase. And while Tuff may be an acronym for Thompson Urban Family Farms, it’s also a reflection of her, and her family’s resilience.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
Features IN Trinidad and Tobago, countless children are being left behind in the classroom, not because they are incapable of learning but because they are not being taught in the way they need. Some are labelled as lazy, dunce or harden by adults, so they eventually withdraw, act out or fall through the cracks.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
News Attorney Farai Hove Masaisai and his team, The People's Champions, have created an ambitious youth-driven manifesto leading up to the People’s National Movement (PNM) internal elections on June 22.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
News ATTORNEY Farai Hove Masaisai and his team, The People's Champions, have created an ambitious youth-driven manifesto leading up to the People’s National Movement (PNM) internal elections on June 22.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
News Commissioner of Police (CoP) Allister Guevarro has a message for parents of wayward children : If you don’t deal with them, the police will. Guevarro was speaking at the inaugural handing over parade for the Commissioner of Police at the Police Academy, St James, on June 17 when he told parents the country’s future was in their hands. “The future of our nation does not rest in your child’s school bag. It rests in your hands as the parents, because you need to take control of your children.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
News A 13-year-old student of a secondary school in Port of Spain was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted after attending a function at the school on June 13. A police report says the girl was leaving the washroom at her school around 6.45 pm when a man with a gun approached her and asked her to walk with him. She was then guided outside the building and to a dark-coloured car which was parked on the street nearby.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
Features AFTER more than 15 years working in museum education, within Caribbean collections across the US and the Caribbean, Trinidadian museologist Dr Daniela Fifi has given voice to regional concerns and solutions through the book Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums. Fifi, 45, the book’s editor and co-author, officially launched the collection of essays at the Western Gallery at Western Washington University, in Bellingham, Washington, USA, on April 10.
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1 week ago | 
newsday.co.tt | Janelle De Souza
Features FOR Public Utilities Minister Barry Padarath, fatherhood has been transformative. As the world celebrates Father’s Day on June 15, Padarath shared the joys and challenges of raising his six-year-old daughter Sejal Lara Sophia Padarath, a child who redefined his purpose in life. “I never imagined that anyone can love someone as much as a parent loves a child. I think you have to experience that to know what that truly feels like and what that means.
