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Khadeja Bristol: Seize every opportunity
by Curlan Campbell Briefly hospitalised during competition due to asthma attack Competed despite complications from foot injury sustained during her athletic career Her focus moving forward is to reflect on lessons learned throughout the pageant...

Aaliyah Knight is National Carnival Queen 2025
by Curlan Campbell First queen from St John in 73 years Won Best Interview, Best Evening Wear, Best Performed Talent and Best Pre-Interview Addressed coping with anxiety, self-doubt, and mental health issues, traditional perceptions of beauty In a...

Tropical Storm Fernand continuing over open ocean
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tropical Storm Fernand, which formed Saturday afternoon in the Atlantic, is continuing to move over the open ocean, with no indication it will make landfall. Fernand is around 300 miles southeast of Bermuda and is moving...

Best Of Wild Sea-Life: 15 Finalists For Ocean Photographer Of The Year
A female Yellow Pigmy Gobi releases newly-hatched larvae into the water from her mouth; Japan Takumi Oyama - Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 A marine iguana ‘mid-sneeze’, a troupe of skeleton shrimps that has colonized a gorgonian coral and a...

GTA reinforces global strategy with in-market engagements
The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) has successfully concluded a targeted international tour across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, reinforcing its commitment to building long-term global partnerships and positioning Grenada,...

T&T girls end CFU U-14 series in cellar-spots
NIGEL SIMON Senior Multimedia Reporter nigel.simon@guardian.co.tt The T&T girls’ under-14 national team and the T&T High Performance (HP) girls’ under-14 squad both ended in the cellar spots of their respective groups in Tier I...

Trinidad and Tobago teams finish CFU U-14 Girls’ group stage without a win
Sports Roneil Walcott 57 Minutes Ago Zara Chase of TT skips past Towanna Clarke of Jamaica in the CFU Under-14 Girls' Challenge Series at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, on August 19. - Photo by Faith Ayoung The two Trinidad and Tobago...

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association VP: CFU U-14 Girls’ Challenge Series met our objectives
Sports Roneil Walcott An Hour Ago Flipping away: TT forward Gloria Henry (left) celebrates after scoring against the TT High Performance team in their tier one seventh-place playoff in the CFU Under-14 Girls' Challenege Series at the Ato Boldon...

Team Saint Lucia Repeat as OECS Boxing Champions
Headline: Team Saint Lucia Repeat as OECS Boxing Champions Team Saint Lucia have once again claimed top honours at the 2025 Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Invitational Boxing Championships held over the Emancipation Day weekend. The...

Orbital Well: Revolutionizing Healthcare in the Region
Key stakeholders at the Orbital Well media launch Orbital Well Medical Services is poised to transform healthcare delivery in Saint Lucia and the surrounding region. Based in Saint Lucia, Orbital Well Medical Services connects individuals and...

The 50 Best Luxury Hotels Will Definitely Inspire Your Next Getaway
Get ready to pack your bags, it’s time to set yourself into the lap of luxury. Luckily, there are so many options at your fingertips, no matter how or where you choose to indulge. In fact, TZR has rounded up the 50 dreamiest luxury hotels in the...

Rough start to CFU Under-14 Challenge Series for Trinidad and Tobago girls
Sports Roneil Walcott 5 Hrs Ago TT's national under-14 team gear up for action in the CFU Under-14 Girls' Challenge Series. - Photo courtesy CFU DESPITE fielding two teams in the competition, hosts Trinidad and Tobago have had a rough start to the...

National athletes ready to battle region at Carifta Triathlon
Sports Kinnesha George 7 Minutes Ago FILE PHOTO: Jacob Cox of Tobago. PHOTO BY DAVID REID - David Reid Although there are no Tobago athletes, this weekend, Tobago will be the home of the Carifta Triathlon, Mixed Relay and Aquathlon Championship...

CONCACAF Under 15
Sponsored | Article continues below Photo Credit: MYDS The National Under 15 Football Team is heading back to St. Lucia this weekend after participating in the 2025 CONCACAF Under 15 Boys Tournament in Curacao. The St. Lucian youngsters started...

Seven Finalists Set to Compete in Miss District High Pageant
Seven girls and young women are preparing to compete in the finals of the Miss District High pageant, which takes place next week. The contestants, selected earlier this year following auditions in March, will take to the stage on August 16 at the...

‘I sold everything I own to sail around the world in retirement’
Sonia Johal is sitting in Curaçao, in the Caribbean, with her chihuahua Buoy. She will spend her day walking him along the beach, catching up on emails, carrying out maintenance on her boat and exploring the island where she has been anchored...

Grenada’s c 1780 Mace of the House of Representatives
by John Angus Martin “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley, “Redemption Song,” Uprising (1980) These often-quoted lyrics from one of Brother Bob’s most inspiring songs echo across the...

The Washington move!!!
The announcement in Washington that Grenada was singled out as the only Eastern Caribbean island to be sanctioned so far for its involvement in the Cuban medical brigade issue has caught St George’s off-guard and very surprised. Grenada is not the...

ESSAY: The Haitian Revolution and its Impact on the Americas, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1991
“To understand the history of the Americas we must pay tribute to…Haiti.” August 22, 1791 marked the beginning of the Haitian Revolution, a 13-year war that would end with the establishment, on January 1, 1804, of the Republic of Haiti, the first...

Can Ethiopia solve the West’s “puzzle” about Africa?
Thomas Jefferson, president of the US from 1801 to 1809, should have known about Ethiopia, the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui suggested in his keynote address to a conference held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 2007. I assisted Mazrui...