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Friday, July 11, 2025

Local programme sharpens children’s dining etiquette, social graces

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blood­san­dral@ya­hoo.com

For God hath not giv­en us the spir­it of fear, but of pow­er and of love, and of sound mind (2 Tim­o­thy 1:7).” This was the prayer in part, in­ter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fied events man­ag­er and founder and CEO of Roy­al-T (RT) Events, Tri­cia Mo­han-Vol­ney ex­tend­ed on so­cial me­dia and in per­son to the stu­dents who com­plet­ed the SEA ex­am­i­na­tion on March 31, be­fore they did.

“Some at­tend­ed my din­ing eti­quette class­es, and I know the mind Tim­o­thy speaks of; they all can do well if we show them love.”

Less than one year ago, Mo­han-Vol­ney en­gaged British eti­quette ex­pert and part of the Roy­al house­hold, and for­mer but­ler to His Roy­al High­ness, Prince Charles and HRM Dutchess of Corn­wall, Grant William Veitch Har­rold, in a one-on-one on­line eti­quette ac­tiv­i­ty.

RT Events is a lo­cal or­gan­i­sa­tion that op­er­ates out of Champs Fleurs, San Juan, and Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la, not­ed for re­spect­ing and em­brac­ing di­ver­si­ty, of­fer­ing var­ied pro­grammes in eti­quette and fine din­ing, with key fo­cus on chil­dren.

“We at Roy­al-T pride our­selves in the finest, and take plea­sure in im­part­ing es­sen­tial life skills which is an arm of love, to all our stu­dents, de­spite race/eth­nic­i­ty, na­tion­al­i­ty, re­li­gion, com­plex­ion, or liv­ing con­di­tion. We are thrilled to an­nounce the re­turn of our sig­na­ture For­mal Din­ing Eti­quette Train­ing Event.

Come April 9 from 10am to 3:30pm, chil­dren six to 16 will be ed­u­cat­ed and em­pow­ered on the rudi­ments of din­ing eti­quette, for­mal ta­ble set­ting, nap­kin and soup eti­quette, and the Con­ti­nen­tal and Amer­i­can styles of din­ing.

Lunch and bev­er­ages (hot and cold) will be served, see­ing par­tic­i­pants con­vert what they learned in­to ac­tu­al re­al-life prac­tice. So­cial graces and Af­ter­noon Tea eti­quette are com­po­nents of the in­ter­ac­tive and fun-packed af­ter­noon ses­sion. Tea is served fol­low­ing which, the stu­dents will en­gage in a spe­cial re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ty.

With pro­fes­sion­al pic­tures tak­en by house pho­tog­ra­ph­er, Jonathan Al­bert, as part of the pack­age, par­ents have the op­tion to have their child’s pic­tures tak­en in the for­mal din­ing room. At the end of the ses­sion, stu­dents are su­per­vised and tak­en out to the gar­den grounds for im­pres­sive in­ter­ac­tion with each oth­er un­til their par­ents re­turn.

Roy­al-T was found­ed six years ago, 2016, and they stride to­wards be­com­ing the pre­mier au­thor­i­ty for im­part­ing the art of din­ing eti­quette and so­cial graces to chil­dren through­out the coun­try.

Mo­han-Vol­ney ex­plained, as re­stric­tions have been lift­ed, RT plans to host an an­nu­al For­mal Din­ing event for past stu­dents at a pre­mier ho­tel restau­rant, where an af­ford­able three-course meal can be re­alised, as many chil­dren are not giv­en that op­por­tu­ni­ty. RT looks to­wards cor­po­rate spon­sor­ship.

Moth­er of two sons, Mo­han-Vol­ney is a for­mer banker; de­gree hold­er in Man­age­ment and In­dus­tri­al & Or­ga­ni­za­tion­al stud­ies with the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Brunswick as fa­cil­i­tat­ed by ROYTEC; Re­al Es­tate and Con­struc­tion pro­fes­sion­al, cer­ti­fied in Events Man­age­ment from the George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty; and cer­ti­fied in Busi­ness Eti­quette & Pro­to­col, For­mal Din­ing Eti­quette and Wed­ding Plan­ning from the Eti­quette School of Flori­da.

Af­ter her plush nine-year bank­ing ca­reer, she sailed high­er ben­e­fit­ting from the Roy­al Caribbean Cruise line where she sailed the high seas of Rus­sia and the Baltic, East­ern & West­ern Mediter­ranean, East­ern & West­ern Caribbean, Alas­ka and the Pa­cif­ic Coast, and the lev­el of eti­quette she ex­pe­ri­enced opened up her eyes even wider, but her seed of For­mal Din­ing Eti­quette Train­ing was plant­ed af­ter she be­came hor­ri­fied while in at­ten­dance at a for­mal din­ner with the crème de la crème of so­ci­ety in Trinidad.

“To my hor­ror, I ob­served many faux-pas by those who should have known bet­ter!”

Car­ry­ing the brand, Roy­al-T, Mo­han-Vol­ney’s in­spired by pro­found phi­los­o­phy that helps her to both forge ahead with new and bet­ter ini­tia­tives and to mo­ti­vate oth­ers to do same.

“Don’t start your day with the bro­ken pieces of yes­ter­day. Every day is a fresh start. Each day is a new be­gin­ning. Every morn­ing we wake up, it’s the first day of our new life” (idle­hearts.com), and “at Roy­al-T, it’s our ut­most plea­sure to take par­tic­i­pants from be­gin­ners’ ba­sics to re­fined end prod­uct – the first day of their new life.”


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