Trinidad and Tobago

“self-imposed” three-year structural adjustment program in which privatisation of SOE was an integral component. In that year, 90 percent of the shares of the National Commercial Bank were sold, with the majority shares going to the Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, and 10 percent to Grenadians and others from the Eastern Caribbean. In addition, most of the government's shares in Grenada Breweries Ltd. were sold. Fifty percent of the shares in the power company, Grenada Electricity Services…

Week 6, Trinidad and Tobago has been wonderful thus far. The people, culture, music, and food make up so many different experiences that will forever be ingrained into my memory. Each weekend as new adventures awaits, in the back of my mind, I am subconsciously aware that my time here is winding down. The end of September is near, midterm is approaching, and preparations for edTPA are now in full gear. With so many things going on inside of the classroom, it is crazy for me to think that I was…

Onika Maraj, better known as Nicki Minaj is the most famous female rapper of our time. Nicki Minaj was born December 8, 1982. She was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. She was then raised in South Jamaica, Queens, New York. Nicki Minaj gained public attention after her releasing of three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009. She later signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009. In 2010, Nicki Minaj released Pink Friday and it reached number one on the US Billboard 200.…

Miss Avril Sinanan, age forty-four of Ribeiro Trace, Rock Road, Penal was born on the 17th March, 1970. She was nurtured from a very poor rural family consisting of eleven children and her two elderly parents: she was the fourth child. Her mother was a housewife and her father was the sole breadwinner of the household, he worked as a farmer in the sugarcane fields until all the plantations were closed down in 2003 because it became a financial burden to the government to meet the subsidy. Both…

the plane ticket. The only thing I could have recognized was the color of it, which appeared to be a faded green in my eyes. For a short moment my mind was completely blank, then suddenly the thoughts and memories of the time being spent in Canaan, Tobago came rushing into me like ferocious waves of a traumatized ocean. I stood there in the present but my mind was in the past. It went back to that dark night of the 12th of September 1997, the night that I took my first breath…

STRATEGIES TO COMBAT THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF POLYPHARMACY AND THE ASSOCIATED NUTRITIONAL RISK Research suggested while polypharmacy, isn’t the only cause of nutritional risk in the elderly, it was shown to have a positive correlation with increased prevalence of nutritional risk. It therefore stood to reason if one reduces negative polypharmacy use, where medications dispensed have little to no added therapeutic value but rather precipitate additional symptoms, we can decrease the numbers of…

in Canada and the United States where Caribbean people have settled including Trinidad and Tobago. In this small nation the beliefs and traditions of many cultures comes together for a brief five days each year. The whole country forgets their differences to join in this celebration. Like many other nations under colonial rule, the history of African people is a brutal, sad story. Carnival was introduced to Trinidad around 1785 as the French settlers began to arrive. For African people…

According to Britannica Online Encyclopedia social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, or groups through a system of social hierarchy or stratification. It is a change in the social status relative to others social location within a given society. There are different types of social mobility, these include: horizontal, vertical, upward and downward mobility. Within the Caribbean however, upward mobility is considered to be pivotal. Openness of the society is a factor that greatly…

What is the Most Populated City in the US Arguably one of the most interesting and expensive places to live in, New York City (NYC) in the State of New York is the most populated city in the US. This city goes by other names like the City of New York or simply as New York and, as of 2016, its population stood at 8,537,673 people. This number is a 4.43% increase compared to the 2010 census estimates. On area, New York City covers an area of 468.484 square miles of which 302.6 square miles being…

an Indian man was displaying his Hindi culture but was singing and gyrating to a Soca song. Soca music, also known as the soul of calypso, is a genre of music that originated from the Caribbean. It began within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1970s and developed into a range of styles in the 1980s and subsequent years. The first question raised in my mind by this entire scenario, was “How is a Hindu man, as we locally refer to them in Belize, with a Spanish name,…