In the up­com­ing school term, the La Sei­va Com­mu­ni­ty coun­cil is urg­ing par­ents to con­tin­ue to sup­port the La Sei­va home­work cen­tre.

Beau­ty is big busi­ness in T&T. Just ask Dr Rachael Eck­el, di­rec­tor of The Skin Health In­sti­tute. Eck­el and oth­ers in T&T are cash­ing in on the bil­lion-dol­lar beau­ty in­dus­try ex­ist­ing glob­al­ly.

FIT AND FAB

"For last year's words be­long to last year's lan­guage and next year's words await an­oth­er voice and to make an end is to make a be­gin­ning." T S Eliot

The church is guilty of im­ple­ment­ing many pro­gres­sive pro­grammes re­cent­ly, most of them to try to right this law­less so­ci­ety in which we live. The un­der­ly­ing fac­tor, how­ev­er, of most of these pro­grammes is ground­ed in LOVE of your fel­low man. In re­cent times our so­ci­ety, be­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly fed by greed and the almighty dol­lar has led to the loss of re­spect for each oth­er and even some in­sti­tu­tions, hence we have so many in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, cor­rup­tion, and gen­er­al law­less­ness.

The Palmiste Crew had their an­nu­al Toy Dis­tri­b­u­tion Dri­ve this morn­ing. San­ta and his Helpers board­ed the Christ­mas Train and pa­rad­ed through Palmiste and sur­round­ed ar­eas in Cen­tral where they dis­trib­uted toys and ham­pers to ea­ger boys and girls.

The Sil­hou­ettes Lounge and Night­club cel­e­brat­ed its Christ­mas Cus­tomer Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Par­ty on Sat­ur­day Night at Val­park Shop­ping Plaza, Val­sayn. Over 150 guests at­tend­ed the event.

The Por­tuguese have their gar­lic pork, the Venezue­lans their ja­mon, the Fil­ipinos brought their le­chon and T&T is rich­er cul­tur­al­ly and cui­sine-wise for it. Some peo­ple have been for­tu­nate to learn how to cook these eth­nic pork dish­es taught to them by im­mi­grant fam­i­lies.

It’s been al­most three weeks and count­ing since the lights went out at Petrotrin. Sur­re­al as it must still be for the many work­ers who are now on the bread­line, some hav­ing even shared with Guardian Me­dia back in Oc­to­ber that their sev­er­ance pack­ages weren’t all that at­trac­tive ei­ther, they must find a way to live be­yond Petrotrin.

The Palmiste Crew had their an­nu­al Toy Dis­tri­b­u­tion Dri­ve this morn­ing. San­ta and his Helpers board­ed the Christ­mas Train and pa­rad­ed through Palmiste and sur­round­ed ar­eas in Cen­tral where they dis­trib­uted toys and ham­pers to ea­ger boys and girls.

The Sil­hou­ettes Lounge and Night­club cel­e­brat­ed its Christ­mas Cus­tomer Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Par­ty on Sat­ur­day Night at Val­park Shop­ping Plaza, Val­sayn. Over 150 guests at­tend­ed the event.

The Por­tuguese have their gar­lic pork, the Venezue­lans their ja­mon, the Fil­ipinos brought their le­chon and T&T is rich­er cul­tur­al­ly and cui­sine-wise for it. Some peo­ple have been for­tu­nate to learn how to cook these eth­nic pork dish­es taught to them by im­mi­grant fam­i­lies.

It’s been al­most three weeks and count­ing since the lights went out at Petrotrin. Sur­re­al as it must still be for the many work­ers who are now on the bread­line, some hav­ing even shared with Guardian Me­dia back in Oc­to­ber that their sev­er­ance pack­ages weren’t all that at­trac­tive ei­ther, they must find a way to live be­yond Petrotrin.