Lisa Allen Agostini

While many weep, wail and gnash their teeth about the problems of Laventille, there is a youth group that is working towards changing the future of this often-embattled district.

I am wrung out from my four days at the annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest, but also inspired and renewed by those four days. The festival ran at the National Library in Port-of-Spain from April 25-28.

About 15 years ago I was cast in an elaborate production of one of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to “promote gender equality and empower women.”

“Sometimes for years at a time, sometimes for her whole life, every woman battles with her body and her beauty as if they let her down

Last week, I was one of a few reporters at a pre-screening of the Canadian movie Home Again, parts of which were locally filmed.

Like almost any reader or writer in T&T at the moment, I’m excited at the prospect of the upcoming NGC Bocas Lit Fest, which opens on April 25 in Port-of-Spain.

Justin Francis was seven years old when he was stabbed in the eye. His mother, Alana, will never forget it. It was Thursday, March 24, 2011, she recalls.