Local Ting än Ting

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Local Chocolates ~ Cacao de Brasso Seco

The Chocolate Bar is made in Local Brasso Seco from 100% Brasso Seco Grown Cocoa.

Look out for it in stores soon

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Local History ~ 1940 Notes

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Celebrating Cocoa Innovation ~ A Tasting Event - Sat21.2.15


Café Mariposa and Mariposa Gardens ~ Lopinot


Café Mariposa is an open-air restaurant, nestled in the beautiful valley of Lopinot which is also home to many Cocoa Estates. Their unique cuisine and ambience has attracted local and international visitors who are now regulars at the Café.

The Team at Café Mariposa in its commitment to aid in revolutionizing the Trinidadian Cocoa Industry is hosted its 2nd Cocoa Tasting Event last evening.

Guests were treated to taste bud popping, unique and exquisite Cocoa Inspired Food and Drinks as well as an evening of music by Yuraric Keyna, a visiting band from Ecuador, and our local band, Overdrive

It was a Celebration worth experiencing for all Cocoa and Chocolate Lovers, showcasing some the different uses of the Cocoa Bean through innovation and creativity as well as building on its superiority in the local market and creating new niche markets here.

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Celebrating Cocoa Innovation ~ A Tasting Event - Sat21.2.15


Café Mariposa and Mariposa Gardens ~ Lopinot

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Local Chocolates ~ Cacao de Brasso Seco

The Chocolate Bar is made in Local Brasso Seco from 100% Brasso Seco Grown Cocoa.

Look out for it in stores soon

Looks good. Will do.

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Local Rap ~ Rap It Up Matics..


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1.32 - 2.55 - 3.25 - 4.32


The Vid

During the months of January and February the face of Trinidad & Tobago music changes.

Radio stations play 100% festival music based around it’s annual “Carnival” celebrations.

This sometimes leaves artists outside of these genres unable to generate much income.

Out of this 2 month musical desert Chromatics crafted the “Carnival Rap Up”

A song highlighting and ridiculing some of the country’s biggest artists and personalities

As well as recapping some of the most controversial occurrences during this festival ‘Season”.

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Local Stunt Biker ~ Birthday Nite


Trinidad and Tobago's most known stunt biker celebrated his b'day on Saturday 21 2015 among all of his friends and fellow bikers.

As usual it was a night for bikers to show of their skills

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mad max block off the road yes...lolol

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Local History - How Solo Got Its Name


Serjad Makmadeen was born in Princes Town in 1910 and was the last of the eight children of Makmadeen, an immigrant from the Punjab, and his wife Rosalin Jamaria who hailed from Martinique.

When he was still quite young the family moved to Bellevue in St James, and he attended primary school up to the age of ten.

After this, economic circumstances forced him to leave school and he secured employment as "the gardener" at the large property known as Ellerslie in Maraval.

Life for young Serjad Makmadeen was extremely difficult.

Poverty stalked his existence.

Each morning he rose early and after his meagre breakfast of a cup of "cocoa tea" he walked across Long Circular Road to start the day's work with only a short break for lunch which he had prepared and brought with him.

Serjad worked as a gardener until he was 13, when he got a job as a baker's apprentice at the MI Bakery on Charlotte Street, in Port of Spain.

Soon he became involved in selling bread and cakes and would deliver his goods to customers on a bicycle.

To develop a large clientele, Serjad gave an extra loaf to anyone who had purchased more than 12 loaves, paying for this extra loaf out of his own pocket.

This allowed him to build up a substantial clientele in a short space of time and he soon became the bakery's top salesman.

Having come from a situation of poverty, Serjad was determined to make a better way of life for himself.

He saved his small salary and began to look for opportunities of self-improvement.

In the thirties, whilst still working at the bakery, he learnt that one Mrs Bajnath had a small soft drink plant for sale in St James.

Having accumulated $350, Serjad borrowed $250 from his friend Nagib Elias, and bought Mrs Bajnath's soft drink plant.

It was at this time that he got married to Khairoon Khan who worked with her husband in running the plant. Everything was done manually: She washed the bottles, boiled the syrup and hand filled the bottles, also adding the carbonated water and capping the bottles.

The plant produced one bottle of soft drink per minute.

Using old beer bottles, two flavours of soft drink were produced: Cola Champagne and Banana.

Serjad would make one or two cases of soft drinks per day after he finished work at the bakery, which he would take with him on his rounds the next day.

As he knew most of his customers well, he was able to convince them to buy his soft drinks.

The difficulty of an East Indian breaking into the soft drink business in a colonial society was evident from Serjad's following experience.

When he first acquired the plant he wrote several times to various soft drink producers in England enquiring on how he could make improvements.

He got no replies.

It was evident by his name that he was not an Englishman but an East Indian so Serjad recognising this, changed his name to JOSEPH CHARLES, which quickly led to communication between himself and the hitherto silent producers.

Joseph Charles soon started to have a problem with the availability of bottles.

His clientele was growing and he could not get enough bottles to satisfy the demand.

Moreover he did not have sufficient capital to buy new bottles.

He read in a magazine that a soft drink factory in Montreal was closing down and its assets were up for sale. He realised that this would be the source of empty soft drink bottles, which he promptly bought and shipped to Trinidad.

The bottles, however, had a brand name "SOLO" and a logo - a pilot drinking from a bottle of soft drink presumably after a solo flight - stamped on them.

Joseph made the expedient decision to keep the brand that has been maintained to this day, along with the distinctive heavy glass Solo bottles.

This acquisition of the brand, which later gave birth to the popular catch phrase "A roti and a red Solo", was one of those happy accidents which is a combination of outside influences, business decision-making and sheer good luck.

After the Second World War and with demand for his soft drinks, Joseph bought an additional plant from the Dugar Brothers in British Guiana and went into the soft drink business as a full time occupation.

He relocated his factory to the area under his house on Panka Lane, St James.

This plant was an improvement on the old one and had the capacity to produce eight bottles per minute.

By 1950, a new plant was set up at the corner of White Street and Tragarete Road opposite the Queen's Park Oval with new equipment imported from the United States.

This plant produced 72 bottles of soft drink per minute.

During the decade of the 50s, Joseph Charles sought to consolidate his business.

He was forever striving for consistency in flavours and paying particular attention to cleanliness and quality.

At his new plant he now employed 20 workers including his two sons, Vernon and the younger Kenneth, who would go to the factory after school and at vacation time to assist and learn from their father.

Joseph worked long hours to develop his business, beginning at 4 o'clock in the morning and sometimes leaving the factory at 11 o'clock in the evening.

He now hired salesmen to sell his products and made sure that they left the factory at 4 a.m. so as to be the first to get to the customers.

Despite his limited formal education, he ensured that he knew how the plant operated and single handedly modified his factory so that it produced 144 bottles per minute.

At this time he introduced four new flavours: Cola, Grape, Cream Soda and Orange; added a shift system and increased his staff to 65 people.

By 1958, the White Street plant became too small for Solo to service its customers efficiently and Joseph Charles was able to secure a loan from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $1.8 million and in January 1960 constructed a new state of the art factory in San Juan on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway.

The new plant and machinery were purchased from the United States and were fully automated.
In 1962 he introduced the still widely popular SOLO APPLE J.

Joseph Charles died in 1965 and is succeeded by his youngest son Kenneth and his family who now own and operate the company.

Like his father before him, Ken has continued to buy new technology to increase efficiency and productivity of the factory and it is now a fully computerised plant.

Joseph Charles Bottling Works is a popular and well liked company.

It is involved in many community activities and sponsors the steelband Solo Pan Knights as well as table tennis and badminton competitions.

It supports power boat racing, and "Mr Solo" is a regular and popular champion.

The highest accolade for any brand is affectionate reference to it in popular culture.

The Joseph Charles company has achieved this with two of its brands, "DOUBLES AND APPLE J" sung in calypso, and its slogan "A ROTI AND A RED SOLO" included in a rap.

When Miss Universe, Trinidadian Wendy Fitzwilliam said publicly that she missed her "ROTI AND RED SOLO", she confirmed that the company first founded by Joseph Charles had truly entered the Caribbean heart.

Joseph Charles was a good family man and imparted sound values to his children.

He was self-taught, read a lot and mastered the mechanical workings of his plant.

He was a man of integrity and charity - always helping the poor in many ways, and sponsoring dinners for them at regular intervals.

He looked after his employees, often providing houses for many.

He shunned publicity and was a most humble person.

The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce is indeed honoured to induct Mr Joseph Charles into the Business Hall of Fame.


From the Express Newspaper as written in the form of paragraphs
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/business ... 99099.html

Taken from JDM_GUY Ched and removed cos of all the heckle and jeckle

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=616815

If tis a repost ..well i repost again

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mad max block off the road yes...lolol

yeh de whole street

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Local Drifting ~ Association Training

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Local Drift Training 2015 ~ Keon Lessey - Tabari Aubin and Nigel Prudent-Sambrano - 1

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Local Drift Training 2015 ~ Keon Lessey - Tabari Aubin and Nigel Prudent-Sambrano - 2

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Local Model ~ Jamie-Lee Phillips

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Local Puppets ~ Hear Nuh,I Could Come In

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Local Fashion Shoot ~ The Hill and the Park - 1


With clothing supplied by "Plus Xepress Fashion"

We ventured through San Fernando and found the two locations

We worked as a team with the ladies assisting me with lighting

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Local Fashion Shoot ~ The Hill and the Park - 2


With clothing supplied by "Plus Xepress Fashion"

We ventured through San Fernando and found the two locations

We worked as a team with the ladies assisting me with lighting

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Local History ~ Panorama Tickets 1980-81-85

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Local Comedian ~ Darrel Dookoo


"No Value For Yourself"


Expletive Language

[kjaglal76v2]

dude, publish a magazine, call it calalloo

love the thread

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ya mon.. dat sound like a plan

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sum of allyuh no who

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ent..

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Local Play ~ Triple play for XXX-posed


With Carnival 2015 passed the theatre scene is about to explode. Last night, Funny Farm Factory Productions, in collaboration with 3Hah Theatre Company, premiered XXX-posed (Who Vex Lorse!!) with three shows only at Central Bank Auditorium, Port-of-Spain.

The play stars Nikki Crosby, Penelope Spencer, Debra Boucaud Mason, Leslie Ann Lavine, Abeo Jackson, Kearn Samuel and Conrad Parris. XXX-posed (Who Vex Lorse!!) reveals what happens when the Trini “saga boy” is faced with the demands of his squandering ways, or when the Trini mother-in-law releases her wrath on her soon-to-be divorced son-in-law, or when Granny is invited to a TV talk show with the likes of the Madam PM and Opposition Leader Growley.

The play continues at the same venue today Sat 28th and tomorrow Sun Mar 1st
For bookings and more information call 687-9071 or 338-6024

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There is just something special about king fish

It’s one of the most versatile and common fishes in the Caribbean.

We love it because of how many ways you can prepare and plate this king of the ocean.

Whether you like your fish stewed, fried, baked or sautéed in a sumptuous sauce, king fish is the perfect choice

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Fish prices are normally high during the Lenten season, but several factors including rough seas and scarcity have sent the cost of the meat alternative skyrocketing this year.

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Pigeon Point

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People of Trinidad and Tobago


I’m really a Tobago girl- I lived there for the first 8 years of my life.

Every day after school we would sit on the beach, watch the tide come in and the sun going down while the fishermen wrapped up for the day.

You never forget you’re on an island when you’re there whereas in Trinidad you can.

Music is my life; piano, pan, guitar, singing in the school choir, dance and performing all save and renew me again and again.

Last year I had the opportunity to go to South Africa with my school choir. During that time, we went to a school in a poor township driving along dirt roads to get there not knowing what to expect - and to greet us there were six little boys playing the trumpets and the sax.

Music is this Universal connection point between people- there are no language, race or culture barriers because true depth of feeling and emotion is expressed.

I know I’m here for a purpose and not randomly. It’s to contribute to life, to do something big and worthwhile. The mere act of being alive is a celebration.

I'm giving up excessive worrying for Lent because bit by bit I’m learning that every tempest is survivable

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Can vouch for Pigeon Point.

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Local Events ~ Sun1stMar2015


1.Mikes Bikes Trinidad Caribbean "Keep Moving Sundays"



For the first time in the Trinidad & Tobago, starting on Sunday 1st March 2015, cyclists will finally have
A lane totally dedicated to them!

At 5:00am on Sunday 1st March we invite all cyclists to partake in the first ever ride on the Bicycle Lane
Around Queen's Park Savannah (inner lane closest to Savannah)

We leave Keep Moving at 6:30am to experience the first ever bike lane in T&T. There will be a brief pause
For the official opening ceremony at 8:00 am.

We Return to Deigo Martin at 9:30am. Keep Moving is on as usual 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Aerobics from 7:15 AM - Free


2.Trinidad and Tobago Powerboat Association



2nd Regatta for the season will be held this Sunday March 1st
At Trinidad and Tobago Yacht Club

Event starts at 12



3.Trinidad and Tobago Triathlon Federation



RIDE – 4 loops (From the launch pad to power boats and back)

RUN – 3 loops (from launch pad to Base Nightclub and back)


4.'Try a Dive' Scuba Diving and Snorkeling

Want to experience it but not such a great swimmer? Then try snorkeling.

Cost: $150 per person



Want a even greater experience? Are you a good swimmer? Then Scuba diving is for you.

Cost: $ 325.

Macqueripe Bay, Chaguaramas - 8am - 1pm

Both events are ideal for beginners as no previous experience is needed and a briefing will be given.


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