Local Ting än Ting

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Local No Fly Zones - 2

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Local Grand Rivere ~ Pawi - "Save the Pawi"


"Trinidad Piping-guan" - (Pipile pipile)

The PAWI as it is known locally is endemic to Trinidad where it was once abundant throughout the Northern Range and the southern Trinity Hills, and also occurred in lowland areas such as the Nariva Swamp and Aripo Savannas.

It is now extinct in the lowlands, and almost certainly extinct in the Trinity Hills ,surveys have failed to find the species since 1994, although there is one credible report from Victoria Mayaro reserve in 2000 and the western end of the Northern Range, east to the Arima-Blanchisseuse road.

The only extant population is in the eastern portion of the Northern Range, where 150-350 km2 of suitable habitat remains.

The population is estimated at 77-231 individuals and unlikely to exceed 200 in total (Hayes et al. 2009).

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Local Visitors ~ Students

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Local History ~ Cathedral


This is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the foundation stone which was laid on March 24th 1816 by the late Governor Sir Ralph Woodford.

It was built with limestone from the Laventille Quarry and was eventually completed in 1832.

Before the cathedral, there was only one Roman Catholic Church in Port of Spain and it was located at what is now Tamarind Square, just behind the Cathedral.

As the painting shows it was built on the waterfront and Independence Square South and South Quay was built on reclaimed land.

This painting is the work of British artist Richard Bridgens who lived and worked in Trinidad in the 1830’s, a generation before the highly acclaimed Cazabon.

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Local Aerial Drone ~ Debe Interchange

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Local Powerboats Association ~ Regatta 2016 Dates

All Regatta's on a Sunday - Except Great Race 2016 on a Saturday

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Local Tobago ~ Radical Sports

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Local No Fly Zones - 2

Is this with regards to drones or aircraft?

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Drones

The TTCAA would like to bring to your attention the notice issued by the Ministry of National Security on the use of UAVs/Drones.

Drone users are advised to ensure operation of drones are done within the guidelines provided


https://caa.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2 ... OBAGO1.pdf


This is the form you will have to full out when registering your drone at TTCAA

Application for Certificate of Registration - Unmanned Aircraft System

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the no fly zones supposed to be blacklisted in the drone maker's gps unit
ie the drone will not go into those area but simply stop and hover.

there is probably a gps listing which they update and load into the gps unit.

Local No Fly Zones - 2

Is this with regards to drones or aircraft?

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The square boundaries are based on the GPS coordinates provided in the documentation.

The circle boundaries are based from the center point of the GPS coordinates provided for the particular location.

A 3km radius is used for most of the locations utilizing a circular boundary.

A 5km radius is used for any manned aircraft operation locations.

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Jazz Artists on the Greens™ 2016


Saturday12thMarch2016 ~ The Greens at Farm Road ~ St Joseph

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Local Courts Store


Hold him ransom for 3 years

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Local Comedian ~ Learie Joesph


Homeless Learie Joseph makes a call to KFC

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Local Attorney General and Legal Affairs


New Polymer Certificates for Births, Deaths and Marriages

The new form of the certificates will be issued by the Registrar General's Department of the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs as of today, Friday 26 February 2016.

According to the Ministry, the upgrade to printing on polymer material will provide enhanced features for a more secure and durable certificate.

The cost of the certificate will remain the same, at $25.00.

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San Fernando

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Local Aerial Drone ~ San Juan



No Sound

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Local Surfing ~ Blanchisseuse


Open Trials 2016 #1 - SundayMarch6th2016 - 930am ~ Damiens Bay


Pass Maracas - Pass Las Cuevas - Pass 100 step - Pass Yara - Then look for a Dirt Road on the Left - Before a Sharp Corner - No sign - Park on the Road - Walk

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Local Aerial Drone ~ Scotland Bay



Music: Major Lazer - Be Together ft. Wild Belle

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Local Honey ~ Carmel Valley Estate - Moka - Maraval


Bees live on a diet of 3 things 1. Honey 2. Water and 3. Bee Pollen - it's their protein and can provide almost all the nutrients required by the human body to thrive.

It's honey season It coincides with our dry season when most forest trees are flowering and there's abundant honey in hive.

To make a pound of honey about 60,000 bees must travel up to 55,000 miles and visit 2 million flowers

When the honey is ripe the bee's seal the cells so we know it's ready for extraction

It's nature's most wholesome food.

Great for alleviating allergies during this dry season when there's an abundant supply in the hive and we can harvest little bits at a time in the gentlest way possible.

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Local History

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Local Arima ~ History of Holy Cross College


Holy Cross College is situated on Calvary Hill, in the city of Arima, which is located in the north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. This twin island republic is the last in the archipelago of islands of the Caribbean, just north of Venezuela in South America.

Arima is home to some of our indigenous people – the First Nations (Caribs). Our Santa Rosa feast is celebrated with ancestral heritage, and cultural festivities involving Parang music.

This rich cultural tradition of the people of Arima help gave birth to Holy Cross College. The College was started by the Dominican Order of Preachers in 1957. In 2008 Holy Cross College celebrated its 50th Anniversary.

The Holy Cross College was first located on the corner of Woodford St. and Church St. It was formally the Ince’s Property and that building was then used as quarters for staff of the College. An Arcon building procured from Sprostons Ltd. was used as the temporary College Building.

The College was opened on the 18th of September, 1957 with an enrollment of 74 boys, because that was the amount the building could accommodate. From there the College was resituated at Calvary, Arima, where it stands today.

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Local Senior Men's Beach Soccer ~ Nassau - Bahamas

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Local Gran Couva ~ Montserrat Hills


From cashier to world class cocoa farmer


Up the forested Corosal Road in the Montserrat Hills of Gran Couva, around a sharp bend and behind two huge mango trees is a cocoa estate described as centuries old.

Surrounded by ancient immortelles, covered in bright orange blossoms, is the five-acre Santiago Estate whose cocoa trees are more than five decades old and still producing some of the world’s most prized beans.

Angela Tang Howad, “65-plus”, a former cashier who now owns this estate, refuses to let her age be a hindrance to her as she putters around between the trees in her straw hat, tall boots and a cutlass on her waist.

She prunes a bit here and there while chickens peck among dry leaves on the ground. The estate is so silent the loudest sound is that of the wind rushing gently through the trees as if whispering tales of times long gone. Humming Birds flit between shrubs and woodpeckers, parrots, cornbirds, yellow tail birds and semps break the quietness.

It’s the picking season but Howad and her brother, Peter, and their labourers have to wait until the green pods on the trees ripen for another harvest. Last week, they picked cocoa, cracked them, filled buckets with the beans and dropped them off to the San Antonio Estate a few miles away.

The Montserrat Cocoa Farmers Co-operative is located there and has a central fermentor for the area’s farmers. Howad is a member of the co-operative’s board. Her beans and those of other Montserrat farmers are fermented, sun dried in a cocoa house and danced, all in the traditional way, which contribute to their uniqueness.

Howad’s single domain cocoa grown on the special Montserrat clay are searched out by the world’s finest chocolatiers. “Our beans are known for their fruity, floral taste and are used to flavour cocoa from other parts of the world.” Her cocoa is bought by Valrhona, a 1922 premium French chocolatier who also produces a chocolate called Gran Couva.

Swiss chocolatier, Laderach, also buys Howad’s cocoa beans to make its chocolates and a Japanese broker purchases them to sell them to buyers in Japan.

Reliable foreign exchange earner
Howad, formerly of Gasparillo, lives at Preysal, some five or six miles away, and drives to Gran Couva almost daily to help Peter, who stays there and runs the estate. Her husband is deceased. “I supervise and do little odds and ends. I do a little pruning, cut a bunch of fig, help pick, heap and crack cocoa.”

Howad said she loves the quiet, relaxing atmosphere on Santiago Estate and believes the fresh air and activity help keep her healthy. “I enjoy coming here.”

As for her energy? “I keep trusting in the Lord. I ask Him for the grace to function.” She recounted how prudent planning and vision led her to own a cocoa estate.

“I used to work at Imperial Stores in San Fernando (established during the colonial era) which were run by the Montanos.

“They also owned San Salvador Estate which they had bought from the previous owner.

“When I was promoted from cashier to secretary to assistant property manager, I used to come here and walk through the estate with the overseer to check on it,” she says.

When the Montanos decided to cut up San Salvador Estate and sell it out about 20 years ago, Howad bought a five-acre plot.

“I said when I retire I will have a place to come to where I can work and relax. The plot was already under cocoa cultivation and I already knew about it,” she said.

She’s passionate about the estate.

“It’s exciting to see the fruit of your labour. We try to produce a good bean. We had a ten per cent increase in production because we are doing chip grafting of new varieties on the old trees.”

Howad said cocoa remained a reliable foreign exchange earner. “There is always a demand for our cocoa. Foreigners are always coming to visit us up here. When you have no oil, cocoa is always there.”

Howad urged the Government to place more emphasis on cocoa cultivation and said work gangs could be employed on estates. “Cocoa should be king once more,” she said.


http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-02- ... coa-farmer

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Local Trinbagoian ~ OneWorldChallenge

6 students from Germany, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Iraq and Austria who are studying at the UWC Robert Bosch College, are participating in the One World Challenge 2016.

Together we want to make a change by living as sustainable as possible for three weeks

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Local St. Augustine ~ Mt. St. Benedict


Forest fires continues to cause destruction all over the country and with the dry season predicted to be long and hard this will only get worse.

These photos show the fires near Mt. St. Benedict just above St. Augustine, on Wednesday24thFeb a fire fighting helicopter spent hours flying back and forth but the fire is still smoldering today.

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Local Princes Town ~ Buen Intento


At a Light Pole at Lothians Road

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Local Aerial Drone ~ Macqueripe - Tracking Station

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Local Carnival

I listen to the last hour of this discussion on i95.5fm in T&T and was glad to hear this question ask and being discussed on the radio. As old people will tell you, if you see smoke most likely their is a fire, so if the question was asked probably there is good reason to be concern.

Being a senior from foreign I was taken back by not one person on the panel remembered the contribution the steelband made to carnival, not even when they played "the road make to walk" by Kitch did they remember that it was the steelbands made that song road march, and when they spoke of the lack of costume on Monday did they remember is was the steelbands presentation that brighten up Monday. I am aware that they could have been "too young to soca" that's why as a elder I feel compelled to voice my opinion.

Carnival today is suffering from the absence of the steelband, the flavor that the steelband brought is missing, what we have today is a business opp.for some, a few people who do not care about our culture making lots of money. what we are seening today is the dead end street carnival is heading down.

Trini people will never allow carnival to die,but it's broken badly and needs to be fixed, SOON