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Easter In Tobago! Yes!
Studio apartment at Sandy Point Beach Club. Double/single bunks, A/C, full kitchen, linen, CABLE TV & housekeeper. Sleeps up to 5.
Visit us at: http://www.opus.co.tt/tobagoholiday
Rates: US$60.50 double/night inclusive (no govt tax extra). US$15 extra person/night inclusive. Special rates for T&T residents on request.
Email: impexbar@caribsurf.com
Phone/Fax: (246) 437-0238 Barbados (868) 639-7313 Tobago
WINE NOT - YOUR WINE MAKING ESTABLISHMENT
WINE NOT is bursting out with a wonderfully wild Easter Sale!
Your two favourite Premium wines for this season-
Perfect Pinot Noir and Regal RieslingCheck out the reduced prices on batches of these two delicious winestyles, and inquire about further discounts for referring a friend who
also makes a purchase. Come to a Wine Tasting at 21 Mucurapo Road,
St. James, any Friday evening, from 6 to 8 p.m. Just give us a call
at 628-CASK (2275) or 622-8258 to let us know you are coming.
FaceIT is facilitated by Microsoft's own Information Technology Group
(ITG) sharing real live experiences of our own environments, how we handle virus attacks, share knowledge across the company etc. FaceIT
includes presenters from Microsoft Germany, Microsoft UK and Microsoft USA all sharing best practices for an IT Department. Full details are
available at http://www.microsoft.com/westindies/events/
Location: Crowne Plaza, Port of Spain
Date: Thursday April 4, 2002
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Coffee breaks and lunch included
Registration fee: $49 USD
Microsoft Caribbean has retained the services of Homnick Systems Inc, a
premier Microsoft Training Center, based in Florida USA, uniquely qualified to deliver training based on Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
Microsoft invites you to attend an intense, two-day developer seminar that will lead you step-by-step through building an entirely new
intranet application accessing existing XML Web services on the Internet. Full details are at http://www.microsoft.com/westindies/events/
Location: Hilton Hotel, Trinidad.
Date: April 18 -19, 2002
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm (both days)
Registration fee: $149 USD
Michael Baker's
(CMB) apts., Tobago. Self contained, kitchenette, hot & cold, cable TV. TT$75 per person. Two hour show, World class
entertainment (calypso, reggae, ballads, oldies) One man band.
Michael Baker's CD 2002 "one Aspiration" available.
Call 868-639-8243(home) ... 868-681-9717(mobile)
EMAIL: mbaker@trinidad.net
Daneil Trace Carnbee, Tobago W.I.
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TANTIE TALK:
What is tradition? When does an event become 'traditional'? In this
place called T&T yuh could suddenly wake up one day and find it have some traditions yuh never hear about at all in yuh hundred years.
I wonder why it is when newspapers intervewing said good folks who pass de century mark, dey never seem to ask about traditions - I want
to know when it was in de last hundred years dat Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween etc became traditional Trini
festivals/celebrations?
Now before allyuh start jumping down mih throat, lemme say dat me ent have no problem wid people who
living/working here in T&T observing
their traditions...we does go in de people land and get on wid we carnival and loud party like if we here in T&T! I doh have a problem
if dey have Trini friends taking part wid dem...what I have a serious problem with is how dey commercialise said events and blatantly
target we chirren, so dey grow up in it and become the 'traditional' market for values and cultures we doh need to rush into adopting.
Think seriously now, when yuh was growing up (and I talking to de big hardback people here) you ever know about Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's
Day or Halloween being 'observed' other than in comics and cartoons? I ent talking about de religious observences which ent have nothing to
do wid said days anymore! Valentine's day doh even have de "St." in front it any more, is jes a nex day to sell cards, flowers and chocolates
with no thought given to why it named so! Jes now dey go be calling March
17th 'Paddy's Green Day'! Where is the large, vibrant Irish community that
has been keeping the tradition alive in T&T? We must be have an Irish
community jes slightly smaller than de ones in New York and Boston if we
could get we own parade in T&T. I not even bothering wid Halloween, because
if de people who pushing it feel we doh have enough homegrown horror here in T&T, let dem import some more.
How come de one 'celebration' dat have some significance to us never gets a
mention? We so proud of our Westminster Tradition in we Parliment, but we
doh acknowledge November 5th - Guy Fawkes Day! Better yet it nearly mirrors one of our longstanding traditions, after all, de Guy is jes a nex
bobolee...not dat I really able wid Trini taking up Guy Fawkes Day, because really and truly I cyant tek a nex day wid fireworks going off all de time! Maybe if dey do like carnival and cutoff at midnight we could survive,
but den again is Trini we talking about...laws make not to be enforced but to have so we could admire dem. I still waiting to see who policeman go
start arresting people for peeing in public...maybe de one who car dey did steal while HE was peeing by de Foreshore?
Tell Tantie: tantie@trinidiary.com
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