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Santa makes special appearance at Union Station
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An HDC official at the site, who did not what to be named, told Newsday the HDC could not give an exact date for the finishing the repairs.
However, the spokesman said the corporation is working to do so as quickly as possible once the weather does not affect the work.
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Opinion - Blaming South Africa for the new COVID-19 variant is wrong. A global crisis needs a global response, says DW's Sertan Sanderson. Instead of finger-pointing and isolation, there should be more solidarity.
Barbadian consumers have been assured by importers that there will be enough food items on the shelves this Christmas, but a leading trade specialist is warning that the region is not immune to the crippling disruptions being witnessed in the developed world. Dr Kai-Ann Skeete, a research fellow at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for Trade […]
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DaBaby promised HIV/AIDS organizations to support them after his head*ss comments during his Rolling Loud Miami set. Still, some of those charities have spotted da jig, according to a report. The rapper has yet to donate a single cent as he initially promised.
Snow or shine—join in caroling on Wednesday, Dec. 22. It’s about to sound a lot like Christmas on Milwaukee’s north side on Wednesday, Dec. 22, during the Fourth Annual Caroling on North Avenue. The public is welcome to lend their voices to the seasonal event, sponsored by St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care and Business […]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown, along with two other players, received a three-game suspension for violating COVID-19 protocols, the National Football League announced on Thursday. The ruling comes after an investigation after accusations of his behavior from a former chef were published last month.
With holiday season travel in full swing, some states have proven safer than others and a new report reveals that the District of Columbia counts as the safest place in the nation.
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The holiday song is the gift that keeps on giving.
Massy Stores Trinidad opened its latest branch on Tuesday in Freeport, the second in central Trinidad and the 21st in the Massy Stores supermarket chain.
CEO of Massy Stores Trinidad Roxane De Freitas, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, said its location is conveniently positioned to serve the \"vibrant Freeport community\" as well as customers who make the journey from north Trinidad to south Trinidad daily.
Massy Stores Freeport is at Highway Plaza at Calcutta No 1, parallel to the Solomon Hochoy Highway. The other central store is at Mid Centre Mall in Chaguanas.
\"The Freeport parallel access road and the set-up of this location at Highway Plaza afford customers the time-saving convenience of doing their shopping en route to their southbound or northbound destination,\" De Freitas said.
The newest store is smaller than branches in Trincity, La Romaine, Marabella and Westmoorings. De Freitas said the company is getting closer to communities with a supermarket format that enables readiness.
[caption id=\"attachment_927113\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] Roxane De Freitas, Chief Executive Officer, Massy Stores Trinidad speaking at the official opening of Massy stores supermarket at Highway Plaza, Freeport. - Photo by Lincoln Holder[/caption]
\"We (Massy Stores) adapted to operate from a smaller square footage to be flexible enough to have a presence in communities and bring the quality standards of Massy Stores closer to our dear customers,\" she said.
Staffers at the Freeport store are focused on serving all customers, she added, in keeping with the company’s standards and expectations of exemplary customer service.
The company understands, she said, that in these are challenging times, customers would want to stretch their dollar further than ever before.
De Freitas said, \"That is why we stand behind our Massy Card programme, because Massy points extend the buying power of the customer.\"
She encouraged people to get a card, which is also available digitally via the Massy Stores app.
Other officials at the opening were chairman David Affonso, assistant VP property development integrated retail Tisha Maharaj, store manager Odessa Elcock and chairman of the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation Henry Awong.
The CEO said the company has partnered with New Age Recycling and Mega Recycling to recycle cardboard boxes. De Freitas estimated that a total of 38 metric tonnes of cardboard collected at Massy Stores locations had been recycled to date.
The company has also partnered with the La Quesa Early Educational Unit at the La Quesa Community Centre in Freeport to support the school's work in providing early childhood education to families in the community. The company started to work with the school a few weeks ago.
De Freitas said Massy Stores staffers brought some early Christmas cheer as they gave toys and hampers to students whose families had been affected by covid19 .
Maharaj also spoke, saying just three months ago the store area was an empty shell, and came to life in the form of t
THE preservation and protection of life, is the greatest gift that any person, community or country can get during the covid19 pandemic.
Rapidfire Kidz Foundation (RKF) president Kevin Ratiram expressed this view as the group held a drive-though treat event in Reform Village on Saturday.
Ratiram, dressed as Santa Claus, and other people dressed as elves were aboard a van accompanied by a music truck as they distributed bags filled with goodies to children along the route.
Asked what was the Christmas gift most in demand by children, Ratiram replied, \"Children should be taught especially now that the greatest gift does not lie in any treat bag or any toy store. The greatest gift is the gift of life.\"
He said over the last year and half, people have lost relatives and friends to covid19 and other people have lost their jobs because of restrictions to slow the spread of the virus and closures of different sectors of the economy.
Between 2020 and this year, Ratiram said the group would have been unable to raise almost $300,000 it normally needs for the toy drive owing to the covid19 restrictions.
While that did not happen, Ratiram said he was heartened to know there are still people and groups in TT who are willing to spend money or make donations to those help those who are most in need.
He said he was grateful to the individuals and companies who donated snacks, toys and other items.
Ratiram said this kind of care, generosity and goodwill will go a long way towards making days happier for many people and hopefully they will have a merry Christmas as well.
\"It is a powerful reminder of the greatness of the human spirit.\"
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The upcoming weekend holiday festival will make certain that it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Friday through Sunday (Dec. 3-5), the Bluff City Christmas Experience will invade the Hickory Ridge Mall with food, entertainment, bargain shopping and a Christmas parade. “We are excited about hosting the Bluff City Christmas Experience in the Hickory […]
For more than two decades, moviegoers have marveled at Denzel Washington's star performances in Malcolm X, Training Day and several other blockbuster films. However, he rarely gets the credit he deserves as a director. Throughout his career, Washington has had a hand in directing Antwone Fisher, The Great Debaters and Fences. This December, he will … Continued
DINESH RAMBALLY
TREVOR SERRETTE was murdered recently while operating his vegetable stall in Valencia. He was a member of the Prison Service for over 26 years and was attached to the Wayne Jackson Building at the Maximum Security Prison (MSP).
Three days later, Nigel Jones was killed in the company of his young daughter at the Fyzabad taxi stand. Our collective soul writhes in agony at the thought of the psychological horror that must have overcome that child. According to newspaper reports, Jones was also attached to the Wayne Jackson Building at the MSP.
Who was Wayne Jackson? Acting Superintendent Wayne Jackson was himself a victim of crime, killed in 2018. In July of this year, Building 13 of the MSP was named after him.
It cannot be that we accept as the norm that prison officers can be killed so flippantly. They keep our internal enemies at bay from the rest of us law-abiding citizens in society. The borders that they patrol are the prison walls, which keep us safe from who is inside. Well, supposedly.
Now our officers are under relentless attack and more killings have been predicted. Is this not enough to make this society more traumatised than it already is?
There has always been an inherent suspicion in the phrase 'who will guard the guard?' But not anymore. The question is, if anything, haunting. The mission statement of the Prison Service is as follows:
'The Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service as an arm of the Criminal Justice System is committed to the protection of society and crime prevention by facilitating opportunities for habilitation/rehabilitation for offenders, while maintaining control under safe, secure, and humane conditions.'
As laudable as that objective is, the irony is lost on no one. Imagine the very prison officers who are meant to protect society and control prisoners are now being deleted remotely, one by those same prisoners. What power lies in their hands! What far reaching commands they send out.
Even more distressing is that the authorities have been made aware of the threat from inside prison walls that more officers will die before Christmas. As warned, it is happening.
Are we really to assume that a handful of prisoners locked away in a cell are more potent, threatening and powerful than our entire national security apparatus?
If we really are to assume that they cannot be stopped even behind bars, then what is the ultimate threat of punishment to prisoners like those? Deprivation of liberty - perhaps the most significant factor in the criminal justice system - appears to be of no consequence to them, whereas anyone else's head will overheat at the thought of making a jail.
If the jail cell cannot prevent these prisoners from having influence over, nor access to, their victims, we must ask ourselves why? Exactly what has gone wrong?
It is a no-brainer that cell phones are being used in their operations. How are these getting in? Again, who guards the guards? Are cell phone signal jammers in effective use?
While the plight of the prison office
[Vanguard] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it was analysing outbound and inbound travellers from countries with confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Michael Coleman’s house is the last one standing on his tiny street, squeezed between a sprawling oil refinery that keeps
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A man was charged with arson and other crimes Wednesday for setting fire to a 50-foot (15-meter) Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in midtown Manhattan, police said.
The Market St. Croix and St. Thomas has donated over 700 chocolate chip cookies to be distributed to all employees of the Department of Human Services territory-wide in celebration of National Cookie Day.
Botswana did not mention the nationalities of the four. With the fluidity and dynamism of modern politics, we expected Botswana to announce their nationalities. It was not long before swords were sharpened against southern Africa as if the mutant virus had originated in Africa.
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‘Barbadian consumers may not have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for meat this Christmas after all.That’s because the price hike which livestock farmers were to start paying for feed on Wednesday has now been put on hold until a more long-term arrangement can be established to cover future operating costs to producers.Following the intervention of Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indar Weir, the lone feed supplier – Pinnacle Feeds Limited – has agreed not to implement the 3.7 per cent increase which the farmers would have had to pay for the commodity.
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By KANISA GEORGE
From as early as October, people across the country engage in an all-out cleaning war, ultimate baking fiesta and Christmas light show in anticipation of the most wonderful time of the year. Vacuum cleaners go into overdrive, ovens are pushed to their limits, and Christmas lights are hung in every possible part of our homes in readiness for Christmas day.
In most countries around the world, especially in developing counties, the Christmas season is a period when our energy consumption is at an all-time high. From decorative lights that bring warmth to December nights, to appliances that are used around the clock, households use an increased amount of energy.
According to studies, the Christmas holidays are characterised by a sharp rise in energy consumption, leading to higher emissions of CO2. The study found that energy consumption increased by 30 per cent in the US due to the overuse of appliances and lights. But even beyond the Christmas period, according to reports, energy consumption in TT is out of control and a cause for concern.
As a resource-rich society, we have benefitted from social, infrastructural and other forms of development over the last few decades. But, on the flip side, this development has resulted in severe damage to our natural environment and increased the size of our carbon footprint.
Characterised as a high per capita energy consumer, TT lacks energy efficiency standards, and citizens are not properly educated about energy consumption. This according to the National energy-efficient monitoring report for TT. Energy efficiency hasn’t always been a widely discussed issue, but with moves towards renewable energy and the need to curtail the effects of climate change, energy efficiency has quickly made its way to the forefront of the sustainable energy discussion.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), energy efficiency is key to ensuring a safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy system for the future and is seen as key to resolving the “trilemma” of economic development, energy security and climate change.
The IEA stresses the importance of energy efficiency for all countries given the multitude of benefits in the face of increasing energy demands, dwindling reserves, higher resource production costs and environmental concerns. But, given the size of our carbon footprint and our energy sector, are we doing enough to ensure we are moving towards a more energy-efficient society? And what laws and policies are in place to help support this action plan?
In 2020, as part of the government’s multi-tiered strategy for implementing better energy conservation and efficiency practices, the Ministry of Public Utilities, in collaboration with T&TEC, embarked on a national distribution of LED bulbs to members of the public.
In addition to being part of our country’s 2030 vision for sustainable development, this move was implemented to inspire a culture of energy conservation and address negative energy consumption attitudes.
Besides develop
We adopted their language and their religion, as well as their names, foods, clothing and sporting, to mention but a few examples.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — In her new role as Playboy’s first-ever Creative Director in Residence, Cardi will provide artistic direction across co-branded fashion and sexual wellness merchandise collections, digital editorial, experiential activations and more.
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MADAMENOIRE caught up with Keri Hilson to talk about her latest TV film, \"Hip Hop Family Christmas,\" what keeps her away from reality television and more.
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