Local Ting än Ting

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Negmahwah is a small beach just before Maracas beach down sum hilly forested slopes..they have a concrete road at the entrance to the trail ,takes about approx. hour an a half to get there and back from off main north coast road

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Aerial Drone View Nice!!

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that's one badass shot elite

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Local Fruit ~ Roucou - (Not Rambutan)

Years ago we utilised a lot of roucou to colour and flavour our foods. Now, as with many traditions, it is seldom seen unless at vending stands along less travelled roads

This is usually a short, attractive evergreen shrub, but it can grow to over 20 feet with shiny heart-shaped leaves, sometimes with reddish veins. The three-inch pale pink blossoms bear a strange, hairy fruit that is heart-shaped with red prickly spines. It may be yellow, red or maroon. Red is the most common variety. When ripe, the pod splits in half to reveal about 50 seeds encased in a red pulp

The dye was used as an antidote to poisoning caused by eating the wild.The pulp is processed to produce a commercial dye and the seeds are dried to make a rust-coloured paste used for dyeing foods such as rice, smoked fish, oil or cheese. It is also used as a fabric dye.

As a herbal remedy, a mixture of roucou pulp and seeds boiled in oil makes a salve that helps heal small cuts and burns, preventing scarring and blistering.

A decoction of the leaves and pulp relieves stomach disorders like indigestion and will help asthma. Roucou leaves in a bath will be refreshing. Leaves heated in oil will reduce the pain of a headache when pressed to the forehead

Islanders used the roucou to colour and flavour special dishes. The pulp is termed bixin and Amerindians used it as the original war paint and to give a startlingly attractive colour to their bodies while protecting it from the sun and insects.

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Local Fruit ~ Rambutan - (Not Roucou)


Known to have this Fruit Avondale Estate, Brasso Seco Trace, Brasso Seco Village

A Sweet and Juicy fruit that looks like a Lychee.

Normally people suck the fruit raw, but they can be stewed and made into jams too. They are also used in traditional medicine, for a number of ailments.

A decoction can be made from the bark of the tree and used to get rid of thrush or candida.

Internal worms can be removed with a decoction made from the roots it is said.

The leaves are made into a poultice and applied to the forehead, to relieve headaches, and a decoction of the dried skin, which contains tannins, is used for dysentery and diarrhoea.

The seeds are said to be toxic and so should not be eaten raw, although they are OK roasted and are used in the treatment of diabetes.

The leaves can be dried and made into a paste with a little water and this can be used on the scalp and hair to condition it.

The dried skin is also used for fevers

The fruit may help in a weight loss diet and may also help to lower blood pressure.

Eating the fruit is also supposed to help you have softer skin and to improve its health.

The young shoots from the tree can be used to produce a green dye on silk which has already been dyed yellow with turmeric (haldi), while the fruit produces a black dye for silk.

The seed oil, which looks like cacao butter, can be used to make candles and soap.

Rambutans are high in vitamin C and eating ten of them will give you twice as much of his as is recommended for your daily diet. It also contains niacin B1 and traces of the vitamin A. It also contains the minerals, iron, phosphorous and calcium

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Today 25th Oct ~ San Antonio Green Market

1. Dehydrated Calalloo, Scorpion peppers and Curry

2. Pear Shaped Guavas

3. Ponche de Crème and Sorrell

4. French Macarons

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Follow up Pics of the Gulf of Paria an West Mall

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Local Wear and Models ~ Rhion Romany's Newest Collection "Domina Resort 2015"

The Embodiment of Boldness, Timelessness and Sophistication


Aelia

Delirious. Cross your heart. Descend into undeniable demise.


Lucilla

Deliberate. A paradox bound by beauty and brawn. Dive into her distinction. Drown in her draw.


Aurelia

Dangerous.Lure, accidental as it is insatiable. Pierce your soul. Devour your mind.


Porcia

Undefined. Devious as she is demure.

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Local Parang ~ In Arima Lastnite Highlights

La Familia de Carmona y Amigos

Mucho Tempo

San Jose Serenaders

IPS Renacer.

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Local Runner ~ Living Legend Granny

Today 26th, Granny will be running in the UWI Half Marathon

Granny Luces is an Inspiration to Many.

"Its Never Too Old to be Young"

As She Strides to the Finish Line".

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UWI half marathon was today.

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yeh, it was yesterday..oppss

http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2014-10 ... uwi-titles

the results were, (they aint say notten bout granny)

A highlight of the event was St Ann’s resident Charles Spooner, who at 90 competed in his ninth consecutive UWI half marathon. Spooner seems to be getting better with age, improving on his time by 16 minutes from last year.

RESULTS

Men

1 Daniel Chavez Da Silva – Brazil – 1:08:26

2 Rupert Green – Jamaica – 1:09:03

3 Philip Lagat – Kenya – 1:10:05

4 Jose Magno Dos Santos – Brazil – 1:10:37

5 Kirk Brown – Jamaica – 1:11:28

6 Curtis Cox – T&T

7 Kade Sobers – T&T

8 Elvis Turner – T&T

9 Pamenos Ballantyne – St Vincent

10 Robin Rowe – Jamaica

Women

1 Caroline Kiptoo – Kenya

2 Cruz Nonato Da Silva – Brazil

3 Lineida Madeus Rojas – Colombia

4 Christelle Laurent – Guadeloupe

5 Christina Laurent - Guadeloupe

6 Samantha Shukla –T&T

7 Christine Regis – T&T

8 Juliet John-Sombrano – T&T

9 Leisl Puckerin – T&T

10 Shania Francis – T&T

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Local music video

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Local Rock - Mark Mclean sounding rel good..I like the graphics in word subtitles and background live

Here's his facebook page https://www.facebook.com/markmcleancreate

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Local Rock Band ~ Jointpop

Jointpop comes to Tobago ~ Saturday, November 22nd ~ Watermill Restaurant at Shirvan Road

Brief History:

The band has been together since 1996, The band has produced 6 albums since 1996, Lead singer and songwriter, Gary Hector

The band’s live shows are, says Hector, “filled with emotion, playfulness, aggression and lots of honesty. We just try to portray the original songs we write in a dynamic, live performance.”

“We are not, by any means, trying to change or create any new sound; it is just that being from Trinidad and Tobago and being in a rock n roll band brings a certain element to it. But, at the end of the day, we are just simply a rock n roll band. Our influences include The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and lots more.”

Hector says jointpop’s music strongly reflects Trinidad and Tobago’s rich culture.

You can hear it loud and clear in the lyrics and topics of the songs, in the way we put it across, the TnT swagger and not to mention the red, white and black, which is the focus of the stage décor. But, I won’t mention that to the powers that be, as they see us as not part of the so called culture, which is sad, but they can’t stop us from being Trini's.

The 7th Album will be release in January 2015



For more information:

‘Rocking the Mill’ will take place on November 22 at the Watermill Restaurant at Shirvan Road.
The evening starts at 8pm with showtime at 10.30pm.
Tickets cost $60 on the door (there are no advanced tickets on sale).
Watermill Restaurant on 721-7054/639-0000 or The Fish Pot on 635-1728/326 8834.

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Local History ~ Lothians Estate - Lothians Road, Princes Town.

Lennox Patterson stands at the front door to the over 100-year-old Patterson home at Lothians Road, Princes Town.

A wooded area off Lothians Road, Princes Town. Follow, and it will take you to one of the highest points in a town known for its rolling hills, rich soil, and bad roads.

Little can be seen from this vantage point because it is walled by carat leaves, and shaded by palmiste palms and a towering tamarind tree that keep the place dark and damp even in the driest of dry seasons.

But there was a time when that track guided the faithful to the hilltop site of a Spiritual Baptist church, where they practised their brand of religion after the lifting of the Shouter Prohibition

Ordinance which had banned their activities between 1917 and 1951.

The believers didn’t know, but those broken bricks once enclosed a solitary grave on the hillside. The brickwork was demolished with a sledgehammer wielded by the church builder, and the shards laid down to make that track. The identity of the grave’s eternal occupant was not known then, wasn’t thought important enough to preserve, and considered lost to time.

Except that there are still a few town elders, and one committed researcher (Angelo Bissessarsingh), who have a good idea who might be buried there, and about the site’s importance to the development of Princes Town, a history that extends far longer than that Baptist church and that solitary grave, all the way back to the time of the enslaved and indentured.

Lennox Patterson remembers the grave. He has lived on that property from childhood. Patterson turns 70 years old next April. The house in which he lives with his ten picoplat birds is at least 103 years old. It is one of the oldest in the town and surrounded by modernity. Other than some roofing sheets overhanging the front steps, it’s all original. But the end is near.

The termites are winning. The Patterson property was once part of the Lothians Estate, one of the most lucrative sugarcane plantations in the country in the 1800s before it folded shortly after the death of its owner in 1897.

Patterson’s grandfather, Moses Patterson, was a labourer on the estate and who fathered two children, Carmen and Donald, with Indian indentured labourer Budhanie.

Moses also had sisters, Victoria (named after Queen Victoria 1837-1901, whose sons, Princes Albert and George, inspired the town’s name, after they visited in 1880) and Elizabeth. The sisters also worked on the estate, at three cents a day, to purchase some of the land with money saved.
The sisters built homes on the property and planted cane at the back.

Victoria took in Carmen (born in 1911) and raised her from a baby. As a young woman, Carmen would find love in Bruce Griffith. He found work in the oilfields of Barrackpore. She followed him. It was then a rough place and time to live, no pipe-borne water, electricity, life expectancy – 50 years.

Patterson was born into this. He remembers the struggle. The family had pigs to supplement the income. There was a pond from which they drank. His father fell ill one night. It was the polluted water. Dysentery weakened him. He tried the home remedy – arrowroot powder. By the time it became critical, the hospital was too far away.

Only two unreliable taxis worked the area. Griffith died at home. He was in his 30s. Patterson’s sister would also die like this. She was four. So Carmen brought her family back home to Princes Town and to that house that her aunt Victoria built; simple but solid, its frame of cedar and greenheart, tree trunk posts at the front, the kitchen at the back built into the hillside, two bedrooms and a living room.

And this is where Patterson and six siblings would grow up, working the canefields, carting the cane to the Malgretoute scale, where the sugar railway ended, attending the St Stephen’s Anglican school, Ma Carmen employed as the cook at the Coterie of Social Workers in San Fernando (where hundreds of children would get a free meal), and Aunt Victoria the village seamstress, making extra money from her craft.

The memory of the Lothians Estate faded in the collective minds of the community, and the cane land, cedar grove, and mango and cherry fields became residential plots.

The children would marry and disperse. One made it in England. Patterson was the only one to remain behind with Aunt Victoria and Ma Carmen. Then it was just Ma. Until 2003, when she, too, died.

Patterson spent his best years at the Works Department located down at the abandoned Trinidad Government Railway train station on the town’s west side, where he helped construct public buildings, retaining walls and drains around Princes Town.

It is why he has such a clear recollection of the grave near his home. A master bricklayer did the job, he said with admiration, tying and pointing out every block precisely. It must have been for someone important, he thinks.

And he is right. That’s because Patterson lives on land on which one of Princes Town’s grandest houses was built, by a man that townfolk owe a debt of gratitude.

That man is Harry Bourne Darling, born in Ireland 1813, died in Princes Town 1887, owner of the Lothians Estate. That lost grave could be of Darling’s wife, Mary, who died in the 1850s, says Angelo Bissessarsingh, who knows a lot about Darling, about the school he opened for the children of the indentured even before the Canadian mission, of his love for and by the people he employed, and of the contribution this Irishman made for a town that has forgotten him

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Mys ... 78742.html

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Local Orchid Show ~ Ambassador Hotel Sat 25th Oct 2014

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Local Event ~ Brasso Seco - Indigenous Cook Fest & Cultural Showcase

HighLights From Sunday 26th Part 1

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Local Event ~ Brasso Seco - Indigenous Cook Fest & Cultural Showcase

HighLights From Sunday 26th Part 2


Next You Plan to go to Brasso Seco:

They are located in the northern range 1/2 way between Arima and Blanchisseuse.

From the CRH take the Demerara Rd exit, cross the eastern main road and it becomes the Arima-Blanchisseuse Rd.

Follow this road for 16 miles. Pass LaLaJa, pass Asa Wright and at the main junction stay straight (turning left will take you to Blanchisseuse) and drive 4 miles into the village.

Call 718-8605 for further assistance

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love this thread

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Local History ~ Golden Age Generation.




So Hazel Ward-Redman is dead... Rest in Peace Queen!!! And yes, yes, the curtain is closing on our Golden Age generation. 2014 will be the year we say we saw them off... But this rumination on Hazel's passing is to flag something else.

It is remarkable just how much those pioneers of our TV media got right with so little resources in the 1970s. If we had simply continued doing their original programming with generational succession this country would be a much better nation in every possible way- financially, socially, artistically...

Literally hundreds of T&T's best local and international talents got their starts and honed their skill in the incubators of Hazel's shows- 'Twelve and Under' and 'Teen Talent'.


'Rikki Tikki Tavi' ensured we had an indigenous children's programming that introduced us to storytelling, puppetry, music, and painting.


Hundreds more would get career boosts from Holly's 'Scouting for Talent' which travelled the nation- and his championing of roots culture.


and

'Best Village' and 'Mastana Bahar' brought ethnic community folk and classical talent to the mainstream and rewarded it.


Sylvia Hunte brought indigenous cuisine in her inimitable 'Tanty' style with 'At Home'.


Allyson Hennessy and 'Community Dateline' ensured that talented anyones doing anything had media access to tell the nation about it- free of charge...


And over it all the genius of Horace James who pioneered local TV drama. He did this firstly by creating 'Play of the Month' which simply filmed the best theatrical productions being put on by community and national theatre groups nationwide, and brought it to TV monthly. Simple. Brilliant. This ensured that the work of 2 generations of the nation's playwrights best work were seen by the nation. Horace also pushed and pioneered real hardcore TV dramas like 'No Boundaries' whilst he facilitated everyone else with series like 'Calabash Alley', 'Turn of the Tide', 'Sugar Cane Arrows', the riotous 'Dial 999', after school specials, game shows, and much more...

We, in fact, had a perfect directory of TV Network programming. We had the foundation and template for perfect television stations and for national programming...

It is amazing with all the media hardware and software that we have at our disposal which has reduced the cost and ease of production enormously THAT NOT ONE TV STATION HAS COME CLOSE TO EVEN HALF EQUALLING THIS OUTPUT!!! Or partnering with production houses to do so.

So there has been no successor to Hazel and her critically important incubator for the nation's talented children pursuing work IN ALL GENRES. No successor to Horace James and his vision, work ethic, and commitment to Local dramatic productions...

Since their time was aborted, 2 generations have grown up in the vacuum of Local Content that our media landscape has become. With 38 radio stations and 10+ TV stations our Local Content is still at between 5- 10% annually and the development content of that % in terms of the richness of what I just described from our pioneers is sadly lacking. The nation is that much poorer for it.

In the name of the Elders and Ancestors who paved the way. So that the work of Hazel and Horace will not have been in vain.


By Karl Doyle

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Anybody have a link to The Turkey Song from the drinks man by the trinicty lights???

Heard it yesterday buh i hez ah me2 so meem ha no blutoot o nun tuh geh d song

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i guess it will pop up over the weekend an we'll hear it

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Local Beach

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Local Bats

Jumbie Bat

Habitat: South America, Trinidad, and Central America

The Northern Ghost Bat (Diclidurus albus), or Jumbie Bat, you might find one alone under a palm leaf because although these bats would prefer to nest in large colonies, it’s very difficult to find the required cave space or rock crevices in their habitat to do so

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Local MonDiva 2015 Campaign ~ Sneak Peek

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Local Craft and Jewellery


Bits and Pieces this Saturday November 1st 2014 ~ 9AM - 4PM

Lots of new recycled glass and paper accessories for Christmas!

At the Movie Towne Banquet and Conference Centre Port of Spain