Knollys Tunnel was named after the acting Colonial Govenor of Trinidad and Tobago, Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys, who officially opened the new railway tunnel on August 20th, 1898

 

In the original Old Testament eve was not Adam’s first wife. God made Adam and his first wife out of clay. She was part human the top half part snake the bottom half. She was a disobedient wife so Adam had god kick her out of Eden which the name Eden being the garden  that started man was taken from the Sumerians they had it first by thousands of years. Then god took Adams rib and made eve his obedient wife. It was Adam’s X wife that tricked eve into eating the apple not Satan a talking snake but Adams X wife half woman half snake. That entire story came from the Egyptians. They had a half snake half woman in an apple tree poring apple juice down from the tree on to a man and the ancient drawing speaks volumes. The fact the Bible changed it self from that earlier story to a talking snake shows how fake it is just changing its story to suit the priest as they go along. 

 

Joseph Charles, the creator of Trinidad and Tobago’s famous Solo soft drink, was born Serjad Makmadeen in Princes Town in 1910. 

The son of an East Indian immigrant father and Martiniquan mother, Charles became a gardener at age 10 in order to assist his family financially. In 1922, he moved to St. James and began working at a bakery, where he became a top salesman by cultivating a loyal clientele. 

In later years, he purchased the “Delaware Punch” soft-drink company on Patna Street, St. James. He and his wife bottled their drinks manually, producing one bottle of soft drink every two minutes. He sold the drinks to customers while continuing his bread delivery service. 

When Charles attempted to market the drink to foreign investors, no one responded to his letters signed with his given name. He decided to change his name to Joseph Charles, which immediately garnered investors. 

During World War II, Charles decided to purchase the entire stock of a Canadian bottling company that was shutting down because there was a shortage of glass bottles. When he received them, they were all printed with the word “Solo” and the image of a pilot having a drink after completing a solo flight. Charles decided to keep the bottles and have the name “Solo” become the brand name of his soft-drink company, with their trademark heavy glass bottles. This is how Solo Beverages began.

Solo Beverages has consistently supported local endeavours such as sports (The Trinidad & Tobago Great Race), music (the Solo Harmonites) and talent shows like Scouting for Talent and Mastana Bahar. 

 

 

 A Giant headstone marking the spot where we all used to live and play and slaughter the innocent.

 .....CORONAVIRUS   INFORMATION.....

*Spain has declared emergency which may extend to March 2021*

 *UK ANNOUNCED ONE MONTH LOCKDOWN, FRANCE 2 WEEKS.*

*GERMANY FOR 4 WEEKS*

*ITALY ALSO TO FOLLOW SHORTLY...*

*ALL THESE COUNTRIES CONFIRMED SECOND WAVE IS MORE DEADLIER...*

                     SO WE HAVE TO TAKE UTMOST CARE AND MAINTAIN ALL PRECAUTIONS*.

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*WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE THE 2ND PHASE OF LOCKDOWN...*

*COVID-19 CRUCIAL INFORMATION*

◉ Due to the collapse of the health system, we, the health professionals, have prepared this message for the people, in case you do not want to risk going to the hospital immediately;

  __________

  ◉ Symptoms appear from the third day after infection (viral symptoms).

   ➙ 1st phase;

  ◉ Body pain

  ◉ Eye pain

  ◉ Headache

  ◉ vomiting

  ◉ Diarrhea

  Runny nose or nasal congestion

  ◉ Decomposition

  ◉ Burning eyes

  ◉ Burning when urinating

  ◉ Feeling feverish

  ◉ Scuffed throat (sore throat)

  ➙ It is very important to count the days of symptoms: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

  ◉ Take action before the onset of fever.

  ◉ Be careful, it is very important to drink plenty of fluids, especially purified water.  Drink plenty of water to keep your throat moist and to help clear your lungs.

  __________

  ➙ 2nd phase;  (from 4th to 8th day) inflammatory.

  ◉ Loss of taste and / or smell

  ◉ Fatigue with minimal effort

  ◉ Chest pain (rib cage)

  ◉ Tightening of the chest

  ◉ Pain in the lower back (in the kidney area)

  __________

  ➙ The virus attacks nerve endings;

  ◉ The difference between fatigue and shortness of breath:

  • _Lack of air is when the person is sitting - without making any effort - and is out of breath;

  • Fatigue is when the person moves around to do something simple and feels tired.

  __________

  ➙ It takes a lot of hydration and vitamin C.

  __________

  Covid-19 binds oxygen, so the quality of the blood is poor, with less oxygen.

  __________

   ➙ 3rd phase - healing;

  ◉ On day 9, the healing phase begins, which can last until day 14 (convalescence).

  ◉ Do not delay treatment, the sooner the better!

  __________

  ➙ Good luck everyone!

  It is better to keep these recommendations, prevention is never too much!

  • Sit in the sun for 15-20 minutes

  • Rest and sleep for at least 7-8 hours.

  • Drink 1 and a half liters of water per day

  • All food should be hot (not cold).

  ➙ Keep in mind that the pH of the coronavirus ranges from 5.5 to 8.5.

  So all we have to do to eliminate the virus is to eat more alkaline foods, above the acid level of the virus.

  As;

  ◉ Bananas, Lime → 9.9 pH

  ◉ Yellow lemon → 8.2 pH

  ◉ Avocado - pH 15.6

  ◉ Garlic - pH 13.2

  ◉ Mango - pH 8.7

  ◉ Mandarin - pH 8.5

  ◉ Pineapple - 12.7 pH

  ◉ Watercress - 22.7 pH

  ◉ Oranges - 9.2 pH

  __________

  ➙ How do you know you have Covid-19 ?!

  ◉ itchy throat

  ◉ Dry throat

  ◉ Dry cough

  ◉ High temperature

  ◉ Difficulty breathing

  ◉ Loss of smell and taste

  __________

  DO NOT keep this information just for yourself, give it to all your family and friends.

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Did You Know - The amazing story of the Cocal (Manzanilla)

SO there was once this man, a hundred years ago, living at a research station on the Gasparee Isle, and studying fish. One day he decided to take a trip over to Trinidad’s east coast to see if he could get lucky with a tarpon, grouper or giant catfish. 

Since cars were only invented a few years before and only the super-rich Trini had one, Harry Vincent and some partners took horses and buggy across the island, trotting through places since changed beyond recognition, until he got to that epic strip of land, now the focus of everyone’s attention. 

Vincent would later write about his adventures in a book, describing the Cocal, plantation of coconut palms between Manzanilla Point and the Ortoire, in ways present-day visitors would readily identify with – sun, sea, the booming sound of the surf, a seashore wide and billiard board smooth at the low tide, clean except for the driftwood coming from the Orinoco, a place where people can think big in a small, and small-minded island. 

He described the work of the coconut estate, and of how the nuts were picked and husked to make rope, how the copra was dried to be taken to the shipping depot near the L’Ebranche River, for the weekly pick-up by RMS Kennet coastal steamer. 

The steamer had to avoid the treacherous Carpenters rocks at Manzanilla Point, which, the historians record, gave birth to the Cocal when coconuts (not native to here) took root along the coast after floating ashore from an East Indies vessel headed to South America, but which struck the rocks and sank in the 1700s. 

So detailed was Vincent’s account, that he even wrote down what he ate that day, a menu that holds the clue to why there are only about 40 of those adorable manatees surviving precariously in the Nariva River. 

After commenting on the fine leather made from one of the harpooned 600-pound sea cows, Vincent said he sat down for a delightful dinner of Mayaro oysters, chip chip soup, forcemeat balls of minced paludes, roast lappe, cirique sauce in white wine, boiled grouper, ailerondes stewed, Seville orange sauce, blue rock crab, Mayaro soles, iced coconut cream with seaside grape jelly, and some potted manatee brains on toast, washed down with some contraband Dewar’s whisky, and vatted rum. 

Vincent wasn’t the first to fawn over this special part of Trinidad. It was described by English novelist Charles Kingsley as he approached on horseback from the north in 1869, who wrote: All this while the dull thunder of the surf was growing louder and louder; till, not as in England over a bare down, but through the thickest foliage down to the high-tide mark, we rode out upon the high-tide mark, we rode out upon the shore, and saw before us a right noble sight; a fiat, sandy, surf-beaten shore, along which stretched, in one grand curve, lost in a haze of spray, 14 miles of Coco palms. This was the Cocal; and it was worth coming all the way from England to see it alone. I at once felt the truth of my host’s saying, that if I went to the Cocal I should find myself transported suddenly from the West Indies to the East. Just such must be the shore of a Coral Island in the Pacific. 

This description, too, would receive the endorsement of locals who come to this beach, also with their rum, and sometimes their worries, to bathe, cook, fish, and drown. Others know it as the place to hold undisturbed Hindu pujas and Spiritual Baptist rituals. 

Kingley’s reconnoitre of the Cocal also took him to the very wetland that reminded us last week that man cannot always conquer nature, when the water from the Nariva Swamp created new channels across our puny road to get to the sea. 

He wrote: Inside the Cocal, two hundred yards to the westward, stretches inland a labyrinth of lagoons and mangrove swamps, impassable to most creatures save alligators and boa constrictors. But amid this labyrinth grow everywhere mighty trees, balata in plenty among them, in every stage of decay; dying seemingly, by gradual submergence of their roots. 

Kingsley also wrote about the plantation house in which he stayed, describing: A large and comfortable house, only just rebuilt after a fire, stood among the palm trees, between the sea and the lagoon; and behind it the barns, sheds engine-houses of the coco-works; and inside it a hearty welcome from a most agreeable German gentleman and his German engineer. 

Both writers recorded their travel south towards Mayaro (the amber hue of the palms, sea beans, the Negro workers), of using the seashore as their highway, and of crossing the Nariva and Ortoire rivers by ferry. 

So we took a drive to the disaster zone last week to see what remains of this description. It’s still one of the most satisfying places you can visit in Trinidad. 

That plantation house has been replaced by a newer structure but you can still see some of the original support buildings and abandoned barrack houses, now the property of the Manatee Conservation Trust, which acquired 500 acres of the Cocal in 1997 from Huggins Trust Ltd, which had owned the operations for a good 100 years. 

But the Cocal’s history is at least twice as old, extending all the way back to Spain’s 1783 Cedula of Population which allowed French planters and their slaves to emigrate to the island with their slaves (the British would conquer Trinidad 14 years later) Mayaro-born historian/writer Michael Anthony knows quite a lot about this, and about the history of that road ruined by the floods. 

According to Anthony’s research, the Cocal is a Spanish word for an abundance of coconut trees. 

Some of those trees were already in existence, Anthony knows, since the map of Trinidad drawn by Captain Frederick Mallet, who was part of Sir Ralph Abercromby’s invasion force in 1797, shows the coconut trees drawn on that coast. 

Anthony said the Cocal belonged to the Spanish Cabildo, but when the Cabildo was abolished in 1840 and a Town Council was formed in Port of Spain, it took over. In 1853 when Port of Spain got a Borough Council, the Borough Council inherited that responsibility. 

The Bovells are known to have leased the Cocal as an estate, from about 1880, worked it for a long period, with that strip of road (which then amounted to no more than a sandy track) used by workers to access the plantation and move produce. 

Anthony said: “When the first (private) buses ran from Sangre Grande to Mayaro at the end of the 1920s, they were forbidden to drive through the Cocal and had to await low tide. In fact no vehicles were allowed through”. 

Vehicles would travel along the shore to the Nariva and Ortoire rivers, where ferries took them across (quite a few tumbled off, residents remembered), which allowed them on to Mayaro. 

Anthony said, in the 30s, that strip of road now used was strengthened and opened for public use. The Cocal, which improved from gravel to macadam, was paved around 1942. In 1971 (the Minister of Works then was Victor Campbell), Anthony recalled a breach of the road as a result of a similar kind of flood event. 

Anthony, who remembered making the ferry crossing once, said the first bridge to be built across the Ortoire near the coast was in 1951. 

Just where the ferry once landed at Ortoire lives Eugene Metoo, 79. He remembers all of it. Grenadian-born, schooled in the fields of a cocoa planation, Metoo remembers that flood of 1971, of working the Cocal climbing those coconut trees in the 50s, picking 1,000 nuts for $2 a day, doing it the old-fashioned way (a tool called a bicycle which he still has) before a back injury, and a downturn in the industry sent him to the sea as a fisherman. 

He has lived all but the first years of his life among those coconut trees and in that swamp. 

While State officials wait for the water to subside and consider how to reconnect Mayaro, Metoo had some advice. 

“They fixing this for people living down here yes, but that road and them coconut trees is for everybody in Trinidad,” he said.

Photo: Crossing the Ortoire by ferry. This image appears in the book "The Sea Fish of Trinidad, written by Harry Vincent.

 Why can’t people recognise the difference between a method of ruling and a method of social system? Communism has absolutely no relevance to who gets in power, that’s decided by democracy/dictatorships etc. Communism is the idea that business is publicly owned etc. It bugs me so much how people don’t understand that a dictatorship is what they’re against (one guy telling us all what we can and can’t do).

 

 

Yeah I was willing to hear Ice Cube out but now he’s retweeting posts that’s equating Joe Biden to Adolph Hitler...That’s a bridge too far for me...It also highlights a real serious issue that happening right now among a lot of Black men in amerikkka right now...There are actually Black men that are inadvertently contributing to wh*te supremacy and the Trump campaign by not being politically aware, let alone politically savvy...It’s these same basic, type of dudes that champion money over everything else and treats capitalism like not just their religion but as their entire sense of spirituality in a way that highlights the depths of the present African-Amerikkkan man’s brand of anti-intellectualism...I recently heard a statement that explains this syndrome in it’s most simplistic terms in saying that there are simply too many Black men that want to be wh*te men, in the sense that these dumb asses really honestly believe that getting ‘the bag’ will clear them of any and all racism in a country that have never not been racist towards them, no matter rich or poor...This isn’t on Black women at all because the average Black Woman in amerikkka ain’t politically stupid enough to buy into a premise that is to this level of simplicity...Typically the Black Woman In amerikkka is far more politically sophisticated than the average Black man...All of this is best exemplified by some of this dumb shit that Ice Cube has been saying and doing lately...Nah I ain’t about to totally cancel dude but right now I ain’t fuckin’ with Cube but I am seriously disappointed in this mf right about now tho..

Most people in general or not on the financial level that ice cube is on so he has a lot to lose if trumps not elected he thinking of his low are no tax bills people wake up its about his financial stand not what he can do for the black community his family well being and his money comes first all he need us for is to buy are watch his movies.

 

 t’s the optics and the timing of Ice Cube talking with trump that people are upset about than the actual substance of his agenda...Ice Cube presented both parties with his agenda...The Democrats told him ‘we’ll talk later’, while trump said ‘no, we’ll talk now’...The only reason trump wanted to talk to Cube now about an agenda that concerns Black people was for his own political benefit and to increase his polling numbers among Black men specifically and Black people in general, not because he gives a fuck about Ice Cube or Black people. Ice Cube ultimately got played like any and every Black person that chooses to hear out, talk to, meet with, etc. to a dude that is a wh*te supremacist and has a long running disdain for all people of color. Cube’s heart was in the right place but his timing was off and he made the mistake of shaking hands with the devil...All that said to cancel Ice Cube is a bridge too far...Obviously, many of you either forgot or are totally unaware of Ice Cube’s stance as it applies to race through several pieces of music he released within his groundbreaking body of work, both as a solo artists and as a member of N.W.A in the 1980s - 1990s...It is painfully obvious to me that many of you on social media read headlines and not articles through your rush to judgement in the whole cancel Ice Cube thing...The lesson that I hope that Cube learns from this is to not associate himself with anything connected to donald trump or any wh*te supremacist for any reason...There isn’t a fruitful conversation to be had...Fuck having a seat at the table...Create and sit at your own table...Never touch or shake hands with a racist because that energy from that handshake will taint you as it is presently on a surface level tainting Ice Cube...

 RANDOM THOUGHTS:

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To me, "drink responsibly"means don't spill it.

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Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.

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It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles.

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The older I get, the earlier it gets late.

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When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.

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I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.

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I had my patience tested. I'm negative.

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Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.

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If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"

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When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.

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I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.

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I run like the winded.

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I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on.

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When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"

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When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?

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I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.

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When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east."

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Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring.  Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.

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Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.

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 WHEN YOU SLEEP.... Did you know that when you sleep you place your hands on the parts of the body that require healing? 

1. Above your head: you seek greater spiritual connection. 

2. In the chest: you have feelings that you still need to heal. 

3. Stomach: anger & furious feelings. 

4. Between the legs: fear, feelings of emptiness. 

5. Sex organs or near them: sexual problems and lack of expression. 

6. Under your pillow: hidden emotions, not showing what we really feel or our true intentions. 

7. Hugging yourself: lack of affection or support  from your loved ones. 

8. Shoulders: exhaustion, lack of

energy. 

9. The hands between the head and the pillow: there is tranquility within you. 

If you don’t place your hands on your body while sleeping it means you are fine and in peace with yourself. 

If you hug your partner, It means nothing but the love you have for them.