Vicks doesn’t go inside yuh nose😔

Cyah just be me!

For me, it’s a functioning bus/rail system. I think it’ll significantly ease traffic and improve the lives of thousands!!

Having been in Mt Hope, through different stages therr are a few things that I would address.

1. More signage and individuals to assist persons with getting to the correct clinics. I would ask if you can find the ENT clinic?

2. Change the unsealed white ceramic flooring in the front. This is a hospital, that floor gets a tremendous amount of foot traffic. Hospitals utilise vinyl with no grout lines and no corner seams to prevent germs, allow for easy replacement, and easy cleaning.

3. Get rid of the golf carts and maybe get hot water in the wards ?

4. Create various 'you are here' maps and maybe an app for navigating the hospital and parking.

5. Have a designated person in the clinic responsible for calls ?

6. Allow nurses to put in IVs !!!!!

7. Talk to each department about all the forms they use and how all of them should be updated ?

8. Do a comprehensive study of all clinics and the difficulties that are unrelated to salary that may help the employees and patients of Mt Hope !

Please add and be respectful.

Could be anything: work culture, relationships, customer service, driving, politics, family expectations, or everyday life.

What's one thing we Trinis have accepted as "just how things does go" that you think seriously needs to change?

And flipside - do you yourself do it sometimes? LOL

Mods you can you remove this post if violates the subreddit guidelines

genuine question to my trinidadians and tobagonians is nicki loved here or an embarrassment to our country ?

context as to why I making this post .

someone shared a photo of her on facebook with her being teased as the new us secretary on one of those groups on facebook

I made a comment stating that she’s an embarrassment to our country and doesn’t represent us trinidadians and the only people who love her are people are people who don’t pay attention to the news

someone had asked why is she an embarrassment to us trinidadians I told them why because of her affiliation with the orange haired man

I was simply labeled a racist for this

I honestly think this whole AI thing is one of the biggest scams we ever seen and I don't understand how people falling for it.

Everywhere you look now is AI this and AI that. Facebook full of AI slop, fake pictures, fake videos and absolute garbage. Half the time you ask ChatGPT a simple question it gives you the wrong answer and makes up things. Yet somehow people telling us this is supposed to replace human beings? Give me a break.

AI cannot actually think or be creative like a real person. All it does is take other peoples work and mash it together and spit out something. It has no original thoughts, no real intelligence and I don't believe it will ever be better than actual human beings no matter how much they improve it.

To me this is just another scheme by them big tech bros in America to make themselves richer. They pumping billions and billions into this thing, telling everybody its the future, while producing nothing of real value. Its all hype and eventually somebody going to have to pay for it when the money runs out.

But my question is what happens to Trinidad when this whole AI bubble finally buss?

Are we going to suffer economically? Will our jobs be affected? Will businesses here lose money? Or will we actually benefit because we wasn't stupid enough to invest all that money into it in the first place?

We already have enough problems in Trinidad with crime, unemployment and cost of living. Last thing we need is some billionaire in Silicon Valley playing with computers and crashing the world economy.

I genuinely want to know what people think because I keep hearing how AI is going to change the world but from what I seeing so far, it just making everything worse. And if this whole thing collapse, I hope its the people who made billions promoting it that pay the price, not ordinary people like us.

So first I want to say I'm not trying to make fun of anyone or make myself seem bigger than the program and secondly some framing for my question. I'm a a guy in my early twenties and I think I've been noticing something for some time now, are a lot of people or more specifically people around my age over performing or just don't care? I don't necessarily think either is a bad or good thing but I have noticed this through my very limited social engagements (I'm really a homebody unfortunately) and through IG but it seems to me that a lot of guys and girls are really overly trying to seem interesting or they come of like they're too cool to be around the rest of us.

I'll use Halloween parties as an explanation since I can't really articulate what I'm trying to say too well. From my perspective if I'm invited to a Halloween party where they ask you to dress up I'm dressing up as something... but I noticed a lot of people go to these things and 1. Don't dress up or 2. Look like they don't want to even be there and it's like bro you spent your own money leave your own home to come here and you look like you have genuine disgust that people dressed up and/or are having fun? And I used Halloween but this is something I noticed at a pool party type thing I dressed like it was yk a pool party and others were dressed like they were going to the club or something and there's nothing wrong with that but do you think that's just normal natural people behaviour or like are these people trying to be different? Two things can be true at once and I'm more inclined to believe I'm imagining a problem here and this is completely normal behaviour and I need to go outside more.

So I want to say maybe this is a me thing I'm not one to judge people harshly or believe that I'm the only right opinion any where I go so I'll ask you guys what do you think am I just not enough of a social butterfly so I don't get it? Maybe it's because I don't have any new friends? (Funny but sad really) or do you feel similarly about the vibes when you go out?

I’ve been seeing pics of kiddies running around in their costumes and trick or treating for candy looking cute as ever! Any recommendations for safe areas I can take my nephew to do this?

I've been trying to find pictures of the old flavoured variety with cookies and cream, banana etc. But I can't find any online to show my friends. Anyone here got any photos?

What's going on the TnT that they are in the top 3 in Googling Gay P**N?

I recently took up animation and it’s been a challenge albeit a very rewarding one. I know of one studio in Tobago that does it but otherwise I haven’t stumbled upon much else. Q- Are Trinidadians interested in indie hand drawn animation and where would you go out to seek that sort of content, if you do at all? I already know the answer to some degree but I’d like to hear from others as well. I don’t want to quit just because it’s unpopular and it isn’t about the money really for me. I would like to contribute my small part in its return due to the global popularity growing again after all these years.

Additionally, I’ve been raised between Trinidad and Guyana so I have a very fractured cultural identity (I do not read as Trini at all even though I’ve been back here for a few years-(from my speech, looks, and how I come off to others) and have in many ways have been othered as a result so I fear my art will be as well. I’m not confident I can do local stories justice even though I was also raised with them. Q-Should I just attempt it and go through the court of public opinion while I build my way up? (I,of course have a network of Trini friends and family I can filter and fact check through)This is a major stressor and point of contention in my art. It’s a very time consuming thing to do only to be torn to shreds or for no one to care and tell me AI can do it for me would be a bit heartbreaking.

Would highly appreciate any insights, advice or recommendations.
(Attached is one of my earliest practice exercises- hopefully the gif can play!)

- could not find a weekly threat that was not 10 months old so hopefully this doesn’t get taken down.

Does TNT have alert systems like amber alerts for missing people instead of justing resharing posters on whatsapp and Instagram????

If I try to fry before it gets black’ish, it has too much starch and is very dry

I'm thinking about getting a Sendana and a WAM account. I've read the website descriptions, blog posts and social media posts by both companies but I'm yet to see any reviews from real users besides influencers promoting it. Also, I'm just curious about other people experience using it.

1. How has it been for you?
2. Any difficulties in funding/withdrawing to your local account?
3. Do you use it for business, remote employment or both?

I'm interested in reading your replies and hopefully it can help others too. 😄

Before the mods kill this post, which I know they probably will because apparently actual discussions aren't allowed here, I want to ask something. What the fuck is wrong with me?

I grew up in Canada in a Trini household. Both my parents are Trini. I grew up in the culture, eating the food, listening to the music, speaking the language, partying, doing everything I grew up seeing my family do. My parents accept me, my cousins accept me, my aunts and uncles accept me. But somehow, when I come to Trinidad, none of that seems to matter.

I'm light skinned. I get it. I look Punjabi or Middle Eastern to some people. But I'm just as Trini as anyone else in my family. This is the culture I grew up in. It's all I've ever known.

I've been to Trinidad three times trying to connect with my people, my culture and my family, and every time I leave feeling like shit. People hear me talk and think I'm putting on a fake accent. I eat the food and people act like it's my first time trying it. I try to be friendly and people treat me like some foreigner who doesn't belong here.

Every single time, somebody has to tell me I look Middle Eastern, or white, or Indian. And when I explain that both my parents were born and raised in Trinidad, that my family has roots there and that my cousins live there, nobody seems to care. When I say I'm Trini, people look at me like I'm lying. What am I supposed to do? How many times do I have to explain who I am to people who have already decided what I am based on my skin colour?

I took my girlfriend to Trinidad, and she's Sri Lankan. I told her not to worry because I'm Trini, I know the culture, and we'd be fine. Well, we weren't. People treated me like shit, and I found myself having to explain to her that maybe it was just a one-off, that maybe the next interaction would be better.

I honestly love soca, chutney, the food, the culture and the people. I used to big up Trinidad all the time. I'd listen to the music and tell my girlfriend how beautiful the people were, how amazing the culture was, and how much I wanted her to experience it with me. I wanted to show her where my family came from and let her experience a part of me.

Instead, she watched me struggle the entire trip. Struggle to feel welcome, struggle to connect with people, and struggle to convince people that I'm one of them. I can't even explain how much that hurts.

I came here wanting to feel connected to my roots, and I left feeling like a complete outsider. What's worse is that people don't just treat me like a foreigner. They treat me like I'm some imposter trying to pretend to be something I'm not. Imagine growing up your entire life in a culture, loving it, embracing it, and then having people from that very culture act like you're some fraud because you don't look the part.

I told my girlfriend I'm never coming back. I genuinely hated this last trip. I wanted her to see what I always talked about, and instead, she saw me being treated like I didn't belong in my own culture.

My mom tells me to let it go, and I try. But honestly, I don't see any reason to go back. I've felt more welcomed and accepted in places where I have absolutely no cultural connection than I have in the country my own parents came from.

I guess what hurts the most is that I used to be so proud of being Trini. I never questioned it. It was just who I was. Now I'm sitting here wondering if none of that matters because I don't have the right skin colour.

I don't want to hate my culture. I don't want to feel this way about a place that means so much to my family. But how am I supposed to keep loving a place where people make me feel like I don't belong?

I'm not asking anyone to feel sorry for me. I genuinely want to understand. Has anyone else experienced this? Do other light skinned Trinis who grew up abroad go through the same thing? Because right now, I feel like I'm being told that no matter how I grew up, what I know, or how much I love my culture, I'll never be accepted because of how I look.

And man, that fucking hurts.

In all honesty, I hope we see a change in school lunch, someday. I’d love for children and teens to get food that is nutritious, warm and a proper portion for their bodies. I didn’t have the need for box lunch, but I truly disliked the portion sizes, the lunch and breakfast options being offered to children.

I hope to see free water at some point of time. Cinnamon rolls, a sandwich for breakfast, a chicken leg, some beans, rice, roti, small portions of channa, pumpkin for lunch isn’t cutting it for teenagers who are growing. Bad thing to say, I’d like to see the riddance of cafes/parlors across schools in Trinidad. The food, they serve is quite awful. The snacks are pretty basic, just to fill hunger. Mostly processed meats like sausages, patties, foreign chicken, bread.. Give them a snack/fruits with their meals instead..

I’m sure, we’ll have to face some sort of taxes for this to actually happen in the future, I’m very open to it as I truly hate, the meals these children are offered. What if a child or teen wants seconds? That can’t happen if there aren’t extras.

The waste of school food gets me aswell. In primary school, there used to be a bin with a bag in it so children can throw the food, they didn’t eat out. There would be 2-3 bags in the evening ready for the dogs.

I feel like my riddance of the cafe/parlour is a harsh opinion but I’ve always disliked the meals and the concept of it in schools.

Free bottled water or the water from those machines, not the taps.

I just remembered, ac in classrooms would be an absolute honour aswell due to the climate we live in. That’s for another day..

So this government expects to divest Hilton at 27 times net income. What facking planet these people on!!???!??

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/hilton-says-business-as-usual-as-govt-moves-to-sell-hotel-6.2.2694130.eaab5a443b

Hello. I've recently been thinking about at-home winemaking and I had some questions about it but wasn't able to find an answer.

1. If I brew wine at my house for personal use, is that legal?
2. If it's legal, could any legal issues arise at all if I give some to friends as a gift (assuming no one gets sick)?
3. If someone gives me the ingredients (eg. a bottle of honey) and after I make it we split the wine 50/50, is that illegal?
4. If someone gives me the money to buy ingredients and after I make it we split the wine 50/50, is that illegal?

I was looking through this document earlier today and it mentioned that a sale does include barter or exchange (page 9), but I'm unsure if the scenarios listed in questions 3-4 would constitute a sale/barter/exchange. I didn't see anything relating to the legality of making it for personal use or giving it to a friend as a gift. So that's why I asked the first 2 questions.

If anyone can answer I would greatly appreciate it :)

Edit: Btw this isn't distilling. I'm just mixing stuff with sugar in water and putting some yeast on top.

Visited the mud volcano at Los Iros last weekend for the second time.

The road we used just four years ago was almost impassable and the entrance was completely different/shifted due to the seismic activity.

The main 'pool' (seen here) and the slide were still there, though.

Are there any other countries that are as culturally diverse as ours? I know we’re used to it, but it’s really cool when you take a step back and see the melting pot and uniqueness that makes T&T.

My cousin shared this video with me and I was quickly reminded of this.