Paula Lindo Wednesday 22 April 2020 A healthy worker is a country’s most valuable asset and governments should put health before wealth. These were some of the conclusions from an International Labour Organisation (ILO) webinar titled, The World of Work in the time of COVID-19: An ILO Caribbean High-Level Virtual Roundtable, on Monday. St Kitts and … Continue reading
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Trinidad Killa… a positive voice from the ghetto (January 22, 2020)
Local dancehall and soca artiste Kern “Trinidad Killa” Joseph says his mission in the music industry is to give upcoming youth a chance. This follows on his recent success with the songs Gunman in She Hole and Power in Soca (Dyy Zess). Joseph said he has been in the music industry for 17 years, and … Continue reading
MansPlain tells all about masculinity (November 7, 2019)
Pionero Productions presents its inaugural theatre production, MansPlain, on November 15 at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, Newbold Street, St Clair, The production is a collaborative, creative presentation which features new and original work penned specifically to focus on the male experience in T&T. Directed by Tyker Phillip, MansPlain’s all-male cast will showcase some of the … Continue reading
Arts-in-Action tackles abuse (January 22, 2017)
Artistic Program Manager of the Applied Creative Arts program, Arts-in-Action (AiA), Brendon Lacaille, said the program will be going out into communities in 2017 to offer their services in dealing with issues of gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against women (VAW) where there is a need. The resolve comes following a year of intense training … Continue reading
What Don’t You F**king Get About Domestic Violence?
Yesterday evening, news broke that Rachael Sukhdeo dropped the domestic violence suit against her millionaire husband Sheron Sukhdeo, saying that they’ve since reconciled their issues. And, r… Source: What Don’t You F**king Get About Domestic Violence?
boxing day 2014. guyana
Originally posted on freedombyanymeans:
“Whore!” was a frequent and common insult slung at her. Whore. He was fucking her whenever he pleased, had brought her to his house for that purpose, as well as to cook and clean. She had been working at the rice mill and looking after his mother who was sick and…
Gut Feeling
Originally posted on Eponymous Fliponymous:
Today I was working at an event to benefit the local transgender community – a community that intersects with all the other letters of the awkward initialism by which we identify ourselves. We had received a substantial in-kind donation from a person whose transgender child had passed on. When I…
