Cather­ine Copeland

The staff of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) re­cent­ly had their Christ­mas fund-rais­ing din­ner in fine style at the San Fer­nan­do Tech­ni­cal In­sti­tute. Every­one swayed the night away to the sounds of Na­tion­al Quar­ries So­ca Sa­bor, as they went through sev­er­al dif­fer­ent gen­res of mu­sic in­clud­ing parang, so­ca and reg­gae. UTT lec­tur­er Rol­ly Do­minic Ho­sein said, "The food was great and the mu­sic was ex­cel­lent. Man­age­ment was there, the rest of the staff was there and every­one had a great time.

All pro­ceeds from the event went to the Stu­dent As­sis­tance Fund. This fund, which was spear­head­ed by lec­tur­er Ar­lene Smith, sup­plies stu­dents with ad­di­tion­al fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to those who need it." He added that, "We will be hav­ing oth­er fund-rais­ing ven­tures for the stu­dent fund, one of which is sched­uled for Car­ni­val. We want to have events that pro­mote the dif­fer­ent cul­tures and tra­di­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go and this event we had is just a taste of what's to come."