‘Is it fair to blame the parents of young people who get mixed up in gangs and criminal behaviour?’ asks Sonia Quamina, a 25-year-old from Arima, a town in Trinidad and Tobago. The poll in the local Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper, dated 2 April 2011, asked the question, “Should the parents of gang members …
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‘Is it fair to blame the parents of young people who get mixed up in gangs and criminal behaviour?’ asks Sonia Quamina, a 25-year-old from Arima, a town in Trinidad and Tobago. The poll in the local Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper, dated 2 April 2011, asked the question, “Should the parents of gang members …
We in the Commonwealth owe it to ourselves to educate young people about accepting self and appreciating that beauty comes with individuality, writes Sonia Quamina, a 25-year-old from Arima, in Trinidad and Tobago. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who …
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We in the Commonwealth owe it to ourselves to educate young people about accepting self and appreciating that beauty comes with individuality, writes Sonia Quamina, a 25-year-old from Arima, in Trinidad and Tobago. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who …
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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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Despite record literacy rates and increases in education spending, youth unemployment remains a serious problem, writes Joshua Hamlet, a 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from San Fernando in Trinidad and Tobago. A recent graduate commonly has two thoughts once examinations are complete. First they realize that leisure activities can begin, and then they ask: ‘What to do now?’ …
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Despite record literacy rates and increases in education spending, youth unemployment remains a serious problem, writes Joshua Hamlet, a 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from San Fernando in Trinidad and Tobago. A recent graduate commonly has two thoughts once examinations are complete. First they realize that leisure activities can begin, and then they ask: ‘What to do now?’ …
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For Arianne St Louis, a 24-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from the town of Diego Martin in Trinidad & Tobago, crime was something that happened to other people. That was until thieves targeted her grandmother’s house. Recent statistics indicate that Trinidad’s crime rate has been steadily increasing since 2003. However, despite the daily tragedies I read about in …
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For Arianne St Louis, a 24-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from the town of Diego Martin in Trinidad & Tobago, crime was something that happened to other people. That was until thieves targeted her grandmother’s house. Recent statistics indicate that Trinidad’s crime rate has been steadily increasing since 2003. However, despite the daily tragedies I read about in …
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