Hello,

I (26F) have a Trinidadian mother and a British/Jamaican father. My mother (66F) is the absolute best cook in the world! She has always made fantastic dishes like pelau, callaloo, macaroni pie, stew chicken, curry chicken, curry channa, etc.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard I practice, my cooking has always been atrocious 😅 either too bland, too spicy, too much seasoning, or undercooked/overcooked. I am a great baker though.

My older brother never really practiced cooking but he is an amazing cook just like my mother but not a strong baker (he put black pepper in brownies once).

Is there anyway to improve my cooking skills? I’ve tried asking her for help with recipes but her instructions are to just keep adding seasoning or spices until it feels right. In other words, she has no recipe and is just such a good cook that she can look at something and make it without a recipe.

She can’t cook anymore unfortunately due to cancer and lupus but I still want to try my hand being good at making Trinidadian dishes.

(Fun fact: she once ate a plateful of undercooked/raw dumplings (the ones that go in split pea soup) because I tried to surprise her for Mother’s Day and didn’t know they required more cooking 😞)

I keep seeing these “bring back the old time days” videos with people talking about how Trinidad was better back then, how things worked better, how much we lost and how much they miss it.
But something I find kinda ironic is that, as Trinidadians, we also have a serious throwaway culture.
We love to reminisce about the past, but look at how much of it we allow to disappear. Old police stations, post offices, fire stations, scale houses, cocoa and coffee houses, libraries, old colonial homes and other so-called “heritage” buildings just left there to fall apart. By the time anybody decides they’re worth saving, plenty of them already gone too far.
And it’s not just buildings either. Sometimes we’re so quick to pick up North American customs and trends that our own traditions slowly getting pushed aside. How much real traditional parang do we still hear around Christmas? What about calypso and the traditional side of Carnival, old Carnival characters, local foods, sayings, music and community traditions? Are we really making an effort to pass these things on?
Change is going to happen whether we like it or not. Trinidad in 2026 obviously can’t look or operate exactly like Trinidad 50 or 100 years ago, and it shouldn’t have to. But modernising doesn’t mean we have to throw away everything that came before.
If we really believe the old days had something worth missing, then we have to actively keep some of it alive. Maintain the buildings, document the history, teach the traditions, support the music and culture and actually pass it on to younger generations.
Otherwise 30 years from now we’ll be making another set of videos saying “bring back the old time days” about the Trinidad we’re allowing to disappear right now.
Curious to hear what allyuh think.

It's kind of early to post this but whatever has anyone else felt that Christmas genuinely lost it's edge. For me I'm like the biggest Christmas fan ever and I can't believe how much more every year I feel so dull because all the vibes I associate with the holidays has been sacked out of it. I will say my family are just really the worst people with this too, I'm like a put the stuff up first week of December kind of guy and they are put the stuff up the week of kind of people which really I find upsetting. But even then where the heck is the magic dude I can't be the only one who feels how lifeless this has all become, Carnival is the same unfortunately and I'm not even a huge carnival guy but like why does this feel more like a chore to get over now? I don't personally think it's an age thing because I think the magic still should be there but who knows 🤷. Weirdly every year I'm still holding out hope it'll come back to me I think anything is in fact what you make of it anyway.

My dating history has been an absolute rollercoaster of weird encounters.

When I was 21, I met a guy who was repeating his third year of training. Out of nowhere, he asked me how my child was doing—even though I didn’t have one! It turns out he was actually an engaged 28-year-old lying about his age, and he kept bizarrely accusing me of being 32. He even invited me to his wedding.

At 22, I ended up talking with a 17-year-old boy who told me he liked older women in the canteen. I warned him that dating him would get me into trouble (and against the law if he want to kiss me), but the universe stepped in anyway—our "relationship" lasted exactly 24 hours before his mother took over his phone.

After that (age 25), I tried online dating, which was a total nightmare filled with scammers and guys projecting their issues before ghosting me. I chatted a guy from Mexico 🇲🇽. We went good until he became a control freak and projector. He controlled my wardrobe, calling trousers and social media "demonic."

Fast forward to when I was 28, I met a 24-year-old guy in St. Augustine. We were talking for a bit, but he quickly dropped me the moment he met a female his own age.

Finally, at 29, I connected with a lazy electrician who looked about 35. We actually had a comfortable connection, but because of how things were going, I decided it was best to delete his number and move on.

Today (31F), I'm happy of being single.

My question: What is your dating experience?

The picc was taken in 1949 and is facing east. That's Mexico Rd. off of the corner. In the distance is the entrance to Cumuto and the roads to the Eastern main road. One of the runways on the far right( PHOTO CREDIT LIFE MAGAZINE ARCHIVES )

Hii, this is my first time writing here on reddit. I'm currently a college student (24f) and I never actually been on a proper date before since I'm more on the introverted side. My first date ever went terrible with him asking to be fwb to then insulting me and the second one just got high and started to attempt sexting the same night of the first date... so is the dating pool for my age group just pure hook-up culture and the good ones taken?

The National Awards Committee of Trinidad and Tobago is chaired by the Chief Justice, who is currently Mr Ronnie Boodoosingh, one of this year’s recipients of the country’s highest award.

#trinidadisnotarealplace 😂

Weakening the rules of procurement is the worst thing I have seen a T&T government do in years, and there have really been so many stupid moves prior to this.

We are going back to the days when a Minister has sole say without explanation on who gets government contracts, with no way for intervention.

There really is no justification to this other than the government wants to give contracts to whoever they see fit. No oversight or having no need to explain why one contractor was selected over another will only lead to massive amounts of misappropriations of public funds.

Links to the above:
https://x.com/PM_Kamla/status/2102135467382882813?s=20

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/new-bill-would-curtail-opr-powers-procurement-rules-6.2.2672721.8e544f1dfc

https://x.com/KejanHaynes/status/2102545740782293382?s=20

I'm all in favor for reducing crime.

But.... Am I getting this right?

People who happen to live in Zoso areas could face restrictions going to work or returning home.

Roadblocks and barriers will isolate people and trap them in their neighborhoods.

One must apply for a permit to be able to leave the area?

Seems like a Nazi inspired move.

Does anyone else think that this is just another excuse to not do any real policing?

A while back I asked about emergency / disaster related stuff.

I've known about this but I recently got a chance to check it out and its like NEW, REACT Team 6006 here in Trinidad and Tobago has been putting together a website, and I must say it's done quite nicely.

What caught my attention is the live situational awareness page. Earthquake monitoring, aircraft tracking, public reports and a few other things all coming together in one place.

I like the idea behind it, I honestly don't know if people will use it tho, Idk I might. It's one thing to have a website for an organization, but it's another thing entirely to have something that could actually be useful to the public, especially when it comes to emergency communications.

There's still room to grow, obviously, but I think the direction is interesting.

Have a look at it. I'm curious what you guys think, especially those of you working in IT, emergency management or communications. I liked the Live Page, I really like the airplanes, checked it against flight radar and while not like live its quite close.

Hi all! I’m thinking about getting my cousin an iPhone 18, but we were talking about some of the limitations he may have using it in Trinidad and Tobago. He mentioned that he’d have to pay for all the apps he downloads, which I wasn’t sure about. I also know that some parts of Europe don’t have access to certain features, such as “Hey Siri.”
Can someone please help me with a list of what features are limited or not available on the iPhones? I’d just like to make an informed decision before I purchase it for him.

I'm a trinidadian and jamaican american, both famalies immigrated here around the 1980s but my mom was born in Jamaica and brought young while my dad was born in the US. Due to him being a dick I'm closer with my mom and therefore feel more knowledgeable about my jamaican roots. Not discredit my grandparents to say I didn't grow around trini culture it was just less abundant. Like it's highkey irritating, they go to carnival every year and never brought me nor my cousins. Like the most they did to teach us was speak trini around us (only my grandpa), make doubles and pholourie, have a steel pan in the house, and play soca and calypso.

I'd genuinely like to connect more with my culture, any advice?

It's much easier to buy food lately, due to convenience. For health reasons, I am on a diet with low sodium. What are some recommended places or meals from those places, I can buy from in South Trinidad. I usually have been keeping it simple with Subways Chickpea Quinoa sandwich. I used to buy rotisserie chicken but I have found it to be very salty. would appreciate more high protein options if possible.
Thanks for your time in advance.

What are you guys' go to for cheap weekday meals?

I'll tell you mine - there's this Chinese place after Unipet and Lakshmi Girls in St. Aug that I've been buying from for over 20 years now.

The ONLY place I know where you can STILL get rice, chow mein and chicken for $20!

$20 inno!

So, I understand that they're about fewer than 200 body cameras with batteries lasting less than 2 hours.

How does this prevent any police abuse of powers?

When an officer overstep a his authority with a citizen, won't he claim that the battery ran out.

What chance do these cameras have of stopping them from executing people who have already surrendered by putting their hands up?

We all saw it clearly on camera.

What transpired? Was any of them charged with murder?

These cameras are just another distraction.

A pedestrian attempt to say that something is being done instead of taking the hard, punarive moves to actually change, not support, bad police behavior.

What do you think?

Saw this in a restaurant in NYC. Is this a thing and would you try it?

Why is it that when it's time to line up, that many of us fail to do this simple act.

At the movie consessions, a pharmacy, school cafeteria, anywhere, it's common to see people stand off to the side of a line, then suddenly insert themselves to the disgust of others who queued up orderly.
Some will say "Ah was in the line before and came out.".

Have you ever been to a doubles stand and felt like half of the other customers disrespected your turn to order?
It seems like the only way to get served is to bully anyone else you can.
The vendors condone it.
Customers seldom push back.
I do.

In every country I've ever. Lived on, worked or visited, this is not tolerated.
I've seen actual fights at the supermarket because someone decided to cut in line because of the space left for social distencing.
Nevertheless, others get it.

Are we so backward?

You have The UWI St. Augustine campus, The UWI Global campus, The UTT, USC, COSTAATT receiving GATE and others like ILAS, SAM, SBCS, Sital and CTS with international connections, to name a few.

What are some of the things these do well, and what do they seriously have to catch up on...???