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The man behind a beautiful museum in Cascade, Trinidad, is on a personal mission to preserve the island’s culture, writes 23-year-old Arianne St Louis from the town of Diego Martin. The De Legacy-House of El Tucuche is a museum located in Wellsprings, Cascade, Trinidad, owned by the Elder Chief Ifá Ojé Won Yomi Abiodun, better …

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The man behind a beautiful museum in Cascade, Trinidad, is on a personal mission to preserve the island’s culture, writes 23-year-old Arianne St Louis from the town of Diego Martin. The De Legacy-House of El Tucuche is a museum located in Wellsprings, Cascade, Trinidad, owned by the Elder Chief Ifá Ojé Won Yomi Abiodun, better …

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One band from the Caribbean island of Tobago has proved that through persistence, hard work, and constant practicing, dreams can become a reality. Josanne Brassey, a 24-year-old from the island of Tobago reports. In 1951, in a fishing village called Black Rock in Tobago, a band of just twelve youths was formed. Named the Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, …

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One band from the Caribbean island of Tobago has proved that through persistence, hard work, and constant practicing, dreams can become a reality. Josanne Brassey, a 24-year-old from the island of Tobago reports. In 1951, in a fishing village called Black Rock in Tobago, a band of just twelve youths was formed. Named the Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra, …

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An increase in female teen violence has sent shock waves through Australian society. Perhaps we need to provide more education to young people about drinking or re-evaluate our expectations of young Australian women, writes Sarah Kilcoyne, a 28-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Brisbane, Queensland. A new social phenomenon is the subject of public concern in Australia. No …

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There is so much more to Caribbean carnival than beads, costumes, feathers and drinking alcohol, just like there is much more to festivals and rituals celebrated in any other part of the globe, explains Leigh-Ann Worrell, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from St Thomas, Barbados. Caribbean people burst with pride about various aspects of our life …

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There is so much more to Caribbean carnival than beads, costumes, feathers and drinking alcohol, just like there is much more to festivals and rituals celebrated in any other part of the globe, explains Leigh-Ann Worrell, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from St Thomas, Barbados. Caribbean people burst with pride about various aspects of our life …

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Young people from around the globe are in Fremantle on the west coast of Australia this week to take part in the Commonwealth Youth Forum. Amanda McClintock, 19, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Queensland, reports on how delegates where treated to an awe-inspiring emersion into the country’s culture and nature, and even got to taste kangaroo. …

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