Young people deserve positive role models, yet too many modern-day celebrities offer bad examples, writes 18-year-old Amanda McClintock from Queensland,  Australia. For as long as there have been humans on this Earth there have been the people who we look up to as our heroes and celebrities. In Greek mythology Hercules was the celebrity of …

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A maternity centre in Trinidad looks set to close, marking the end of several decades of bringing life into this world. Twenty-three year-old Arianne St Louis, who has a personal debt to its owners and staff, reports. Amicus Maternity Center first opened its doors to women on June 5th 1970. It was the first midwife-operated …

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The man behind a beautiful museum in Cascade, Trinidad, is on a personal mission to preserve the island’s culture, writes 23-year-old Arianne St Louis from the town of Diego Martin. The De Legacy-House of El Tucuche is a museum located in Wellsprings, Cascade, Trinidad, owned by the Elder Chief Ifá Ojé Won Yomi Abiodun, better …

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The man behind a beautiful museum in Cascade, Trinidad, is on a personal mission to preserve the island’s culture, writes 23-year-old Arianne St Louis from the town of Diego Martin. The De Legacy-House of El Tucuche is a museum located in Wellsprings, Cascade, Trinidad, owned by the Elder Chief Ifá Ojé Won Yomi Abiodun, better …

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Housing subsidies, though they are targeted at the less wealthy, are just “another camouflaged expenditure tool”, claims 29-year-old Tan Peiying from Singapore. Is it right for a government to decide on behalf of its people the kind of housing they should have? While it seem like a pro-poor policy, to ensure reasonably priced housing, I …

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After overcoming many obstacles, the International Year of Youth was officially launched in Guyana on 18 March 2011, writes Abbas Hamid, a 20-year-old youth activist from New Amsterdam. In December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 64/134 proclaiming the International Year of Youth from August 12 2010 to August 11 2011. It has …

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Our ability to speak more than one language is a mark of respect and tolerance for non-Anglophone cultures, writes Grant Duthie, a 17-year-old from the Gold Coast of Australia. I can remember when I was very young, the delight I felt as I played a game of pretending to speak another language. It was generally my …

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Our ability to speak more than one language is a mark of respect and tolerance for non-Anglophone cultures, writes Grant Duthie, a 17-year-old from the Gold Coast of Australia. I can remember when I was very young, the delight I felt as I played a game of pretending to speak another language. It was generally my …

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As the Italian educator Maria Montessori once said,  the role of education is to “free the child’s potential” and by so doing “transform him into the world”, writes 23-year-old youth activist Craig Dixon from Jamaica. Slender blades of grass sway at the behest of the wind. If the wind blows from the west, their heads …

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