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  1. allyuh exclude
    • 2021 January 20, Kinnesha George, “PDP's Hackett looks to end 20-year PNM reign”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[1]:
      I want allyuh to throw the black and red outside and come together to put your own as the next area representative of Plymouth/ Golden Lane.
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  2. asato exclude
    • 2020 November 14, Dara Healy, “Illuminating the East Indian mission”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[2]:
      Ma asato ma sad gamaya/Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya/O Mother, lead me from untruth to truth.
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  3. badmind exclude
    • 2020 July 12, Colin Robinson, “How same-sex roommates got left out”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[3]:
      And how homophobic badmind and legislative smartmanship have left unrelated people of the same sex covered only if they’re intimate.
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    • 2020 July 5, Colin Robinson, “Answers on the Domestic Violence Bill”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[4]:
      What concerned us instead was how badmind, carried over from the original legislation, impacted non-LGBTI people.
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    • 2020 June 7, Colin Robinson, “The promise of an NHRI”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[5]:
      When the UNC proposed this legal-structural framework to prevent discrimination, PNM legislators argued culture was good enough, and you can’t outlaw badmind.
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  4. balisier exclude
    • 2020 November 5, Tyrell Gittens, “Wa Samaki Ecosystems: power of organic farming”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[6]:
      Before the first round of restrictions started, in March, the farm supplied cut flowers like heliconia (balisier) and ginger lilies to four flower shops.
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    • 2021 January 18, Paolo Kernahan, “A culture of accountability”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[7]:
      The balisier brigade foments an environment of fear perpetuated through menace.
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  5. biche exclude
    • 2020 September 20, Elspeth Duncan, “Simon says”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[8]:
      My mother send me to school but all I did study in school was river...breaking biche to go river.
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  6. bligh exclude
    • 2021 January 13, Laurel V Williams, “Taxi drivers ready to battle”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[9]:
      Are they also going to get a bligh too to become legal entities?
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  7. bodi exclude
    • 2020 December 10, Rhianna Mc Kenzie, “Cox, Namdevco insist: Hampers for students 'of good quality'”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[10]:
      Each hamper box costs $250 and includes pineapple, melons, bodi, tomatoes, cucumbers, callaloo bush, plantain, sweet peppers, melongene, cocoa and milk.
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  8. bullifay exclude
    • 2021 January 22, Kinnesha George, “'Wasp' warns PNM leader of election day sting”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[11]:
      Vote for the bamboo bullifay, vote for the party that is going to transform Tobago, vote for the party that is going to respect you, vote the party that is going to respect you, vote for the party that cares about you—that party is the PDP.
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  9. buscopan exclude
    • 2020 December 20, Debbie Jacob, “Battle against covid19 behind bars”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[12]:
      The Port of Spain prison has an urgent need for paracetamol, Panadol, buscopan, bleach, hand soap, blue soap, new slippers in all sizes, new vests and boxers.
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  10. bwaifriend exclude
    • 2020 October 3, Dara Healy, “Riddim and power of our spoken word”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[13]:
      Mi daughter bwaifriend (boyfriend) name is Sailor and him pass through the port like a ship/more grand pickney fi feed/but the whole a we need/what a night what a plight mi cyaan get a bite/mi life is a stiff fight and mi cyaan believe it...
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  11. cachitos exclude
    • 2020 December 10, Grevic Alvarado, “Venezuelan women on street-food hustle”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[14]:
      I started to make cakes, palmeritas, cachitos, puff pastry, among other sweets that Venezuelans like so much, and I offered them through social networks,” she said.
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  12. calabaza exclude
    • 2020 September 19, Wendyr, “For the love of veggies”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[15]:
      2 pounds calabaza pumpkin
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  13. chirrip exclude
    • 2020 February 22, Colin Robinson, “Judging this Carnival, by memory”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[16]:
      Indeed, all of our premier festival’s artists endure the penance of dust and dew of the drag to chirrip, chirrip reach its mainstage.
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  14. comunismo exclude
    • 2020 November 16, Paolo Kernahan, “Lesson from the US election”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[17]:
      Here's another example: many Floridians voted for Trump because they bought into the Republican party's fear-mongering of democratic socialism, a proxy for comunismo.
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  15. cookups exclude
    • 2020 July 25, Wendyr, “Delicious black beans”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[18]:
      Stew them, add them to your rice cookups and even soups.
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  16. covernotes exclude
    • 2020 June 7, Colin Robinson, “The promise of an NHRI”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[19]:
      Even the midnight covernotes and uploading were shared.
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  17. cyaan exclude
    • 2020 October 3, Dara Healy, “Riddim and power of our spoken word”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[20]:
      Mi daughter bwaifriend (boyfriend) name is Sailor and him pass through the port like a ship/more grand pickney fi feed/but the whole a we need/what a night what a plight mi cyaan get a bite/mi life is a stiff fight and mi cyaan believe it...
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  18. cyah exclude
    • 2021 January 18, Stephon Nicholas, “PDP promises audit after THA election win”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[21]:
      The Auditor General is saying to us, she cannot give an opinion because she cannot verify most of the expenses of the THA...The Auditor General pointed out the THA purchased lands and yuh cyah find the deeds for the lands...That is the kinds of example that the Auditor General has given for why she can't give an opinion of the accounts of the THA.
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    • 2020 November 30, Radica Mahase, “Disability etiquette for TT”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[22]:
      Think before you speak! Please don’t go up to someone in a wheelchair and say “a a, yuh cyah walk" or to someone with a walking cane and say “yuh cyah see.” As ridiculous as these may sound, people actually say things like this.
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  19. cyar exclude
    • 2020 December 14, Paolo Kernahan, “As they lead, so shall they follow”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[23]:
      They come directly from the "you cyar pass dey?" playbook.
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  20. daiyu exclude
    • 2021 January 2, Darren Bahaw, “Fisherfolk haul in cutlassfish for Chinese market”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[24]:
      An online article from the Straits Times, said cutlassfish is one of the most popular fish, known as daiyu, for the Chinese.
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  21. deathways exclude
    • 2020 December 17, Melissa Doughty, “The Gatekeepers brings book deal for Trini writer Lloyd”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[25]:
      She said the idea for her debut novel, The Gatekeepers, grew out of “thinking through the ways that we live with death and how our cultural deathways hold (or hide) important histories.
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  22. deyas exclude
    • 2020 December 30, Gabrielle Hosein, “The necessity of joy”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[26]:
      It takes effort to look at negative possibilities and to find or make small lights of joy, like a candle’s warm flicker in the dark or like the deyas we light daily to give small fire to our intentions as we navigate frustrating or unfulfilling realities.
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    • 2020 November 14, Dara Healy, “Illuminating the East Indian mission”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[27]:
      So it is not surprising our level of comfort as we walk barefooted through the cool river water or light deyas to celebrate Divali, the Festival of Light.
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  23. douen exclude
    • 2021 January 4, Stephon Nicholas, “PDP promises Tobago folklore theme park”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[28]:
      So instead of people flying out to Florida and going and see Mini Mouse and Mickey Mouse, and those people, they can drive up to Pembroke and go and see a La Diablesse, a soucouyant, a douen, all these folklore characters, get the dirt-oven bread in a very Disney World type of setting, except we'll be using local, traditional characters to create a folklore theme park.
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  24. duss exclude
    • 2020 June 29, Paolo Kernahan, “Covid19 and the old normal”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[29]:
      Boy, dat waz duss eh!
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  25. dyam exclude
    • 2020 June 22, Paolo Kernahan, “The train at the end of the tunnel”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[30]:
      As Burning Spear sang, "Creesteefah Colo-o-o was ah dyam blasted lyah!
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  26. extempo exclude
    • 2020 October 31, Dara Healy, “Breathing life into statues of wax”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[31]:
      Black Sage, extempo artist and calypsonian
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    • 2020 August 30, Marina Salandy-Brown, “New world, new ways”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[32]:
      In this May 2, 2019 file photo, Brian London and Black Sage engage in extempo war during the NGC Bocas Lit Fest.
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    • 2021 January 25, Yvonne Webb, “London launches online extempo contest for youths”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[33]:
      London launches online extempo contest for youths
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    • 2019 August 3, Marina Salandy-Brown, “Carifesta XIV – a Caribbean show”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[34]:
      Paul Keens-Douglas will be telling his irresistible stories and extempo wordsmiths Brian London and Black Sage will debate Caribbean unity.
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  27. farseness exclude
    • 2020 August 3, Paolo Kernahan, “I hate to say I told you so”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[35]:
      Well, for my farseness I was attacked.
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  28. feters exclude
    • 2021 January 1, “Plague Year over, the plague is not”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[36]:
      Some feters were more equal than others.
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  29. geera exclude
    • 2021 January 2, Wendyr, “Support local in 2021”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[37]:
      1 teaspoon ground, roasted cumin or geera
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    • 2020 July 25, Wendyr, “Delicious black beans”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[38]:
      2 tsp geera
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    • 2020 August 22, Wendyr, “Mediterranean marvel”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[39]:
      2 tsp ground roasted geera
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  30. ginga exclude
    • 2021 January 18, Stephon Nicholas, “Soca vs ginga: TT to face Guyana's Brazilian style”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[40]:
      Soca vs ginga: TT to face Guyana's Brazilian style
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  31. guab exclude
    • 2020 November 22, Rachael Espinet, “Green space blossoms at West Park Savannah in Diego Martin”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[41]:
      People have donated a guab – a flowering tree – African tulips, weeping willows, black pearl, flamboyant, poui, royal palms, immortelles and a samaan.
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  32. guessboard exclude
    • 2020 August 9, Colin Robinson, “Come Monday”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[42]:
      The Express has published a page 2 ad some claim seeks to parody this, with a guessboard asking if voters think running the country is a game.
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  33. hardwares exclude
    • 2021 January 3, Janelle De Souza, “Covid19: a glance at how TT faced the virus in 2020”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[43]:
      Also, the Public Health Ordinance was revised, with clear guidelines for opening hours of retail places such hardwares, electrical and plumbing stores, and supermarkets until April 30.
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  34. heself exclude
    • 2020 October 17, Dara Healy, “The serious effect of laughter”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[44]:
      Heself tell heself, you are charged for speeding/Heself start to shout, the policeman lying!/Heself tell heself, Doh shout!
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  35. homegoods exclude
    • 2020 April 5, Kieran Khan, “Designers, seamstresses make masks in covid19 fight”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[45]:
      Photographer James Soloman and his partner Rachel Lee Young, known recently for their brand of hummingbird inspired and emblazoned tea towels, pillow cases and other homegoods, also put their skills to public service.
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  36. jammetry exclude
    • 2020 August 22, Dara Healy, “Leah the jamette woman”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[46]:
      For her, jammetry was about building character and community.
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  37. jnr exclude
    • 2021 January 26, “Ex- WI manager laments ‘embarrassing’ ODI sweep”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[47]:
      The WI ODI team were without a number of players – captain Kieron Pollard, Evin Lewis, Sheldon Cottrell, Roston Chase, Jason Holder, Shimron Hetmyer, Darren Bravo, Nicholas Pooran and Shai Hope (who opted out due to covid19 fears), Fabian Allen (personal reasons), Romario Shepherd and Hayden Walsh jnr (positive covid19 tests).
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    • 2021 January 15, Joel Bailey, “Red Force selectors announce Super50 squad”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[48]:
      The selection panel, comprising chairman Rajendra Mangalie, Mahadeo Bodoe and Richard Kelly jnr, also named veteran opener Lendl Simmons, off-spinner Sunil Narine, wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin, leg-spinner Imran Khan and fast bowler Ravi Rampaul in the squad.
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  38. keskidee exclude
    • 2021 January 2, Dara Healy, “The realm of the possible”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[49]:
      As I sat, isolated and trying to comprehend this new reality, the keskidee who visits me sometimes perched outside the protective steel barrier.
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    • 2020 October 10, Dara Healy, “Speaking picoplatically from a keskidee point of view”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[50]:
      Speaking picoplatically from a keskidee point of view
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  39. kwart exclude
    • 2020 August 3, Paolo Kernahan, “I hate to say I told you so”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[51]:
      Many suggested I should keep kwart and “support” the Government.
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  40. kyah exclude
    • 2020 August 24, Paolo Kernahan, “Advice for young journos”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[52]:
      What followed was a lot of “kyah, kyah, kyah” from the Facebook cheap seats.
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  41. lappe exclude
    • 2020 December 19, Rhianna Mc Kenzie, “Wildlife survey suggests quenk numbers low”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[53]:
      The country-wide survey and census from 2014-2018 was the first national study to focus on five species of game: deer, agouti, lappe, tatou and the quenk.
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  42. largehead exclude
    • 2021 January 2, Darren Bahaw, “Fisherfolk haul in cutlassfish for Chinese market”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[54]:
      According to the University of the West Indies online guide to animals in Trinidad and Tobago says the fish, also known as the largehead hairtail, is a marine fish which has a band-like body, is elongated and compressed, with plain silver colour.
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  43. lawlords exclude
    • 2020 July 12, Colin Robinson, “How same-sex roommates got left out”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[55]:
      No one needs to wait for years for British lawlords to tell us that our Constitution compels us to treat LGBTI people fairly and equally.
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    • 2020 June 7, Colin Robinson, “The promise of an NHRI”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[56]:
      When the dust of the next three elections settled, with PNM in power, they refused to implement it, a blind man, Kenneth Suratt, sued, Government said laws discriminating against homosexuals were unconstitutional, Ivor Archie wrote what Anand Ramlogan called one of the most stunning Caribbean judgments, British lawlords promptly overturned it, and by 2008 the Equal Opportunity Commission and Tribunal were functioning.
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  44. macajuelling exclude
    • 2020 May 26, Colin Robinson, “Colin Robinson: In his own words”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[57]:
      Nine years of macajuelling and three-minute French kisses later, I’ve come to adore him and he’s the closest thing to a boyfriend I have.
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  45. maracs exclude
    • 2020 December 8, Melissa Doughty, “Queen's Hall, NPATT host Tres Noches de Parang”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[58]:
      A member of the parang band BB Serenaders, plays the maracs at Tres Noches de Parang at Queen's Hall, St Anns on December 4.
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  46. maticoor exclude
    • 2020 February 9, Kieran Khan, “Hurricane Hemlatha Dindial preserving chutney music”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[59]:
      Hurricane Hemlatha Dindial has been a vocal and cultural powerhouse in the chutney community for the past 16 years and has performed at hundreds of events – from weddings to birthday celebrations and maticoor nights (the first of three nights of celebration for a Hindu wedding).
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  47. medoa exclude
    • 2021 January 24, Corey Connelly, “Battle for Tobago: PNM ahead of PDP in THA election”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[60]:
      Dr Denise Tsoiafatt Angus speaks to the medoa after filing her nomination papers to contest Scarborough, Calder Hall seat at #2 Montessori Drive, Glen Road, Tobago on January 4.
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  48. mifi exclude
    • 2020 October 29, Marshelle Haseley, “TT on the digital road”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[61]:
      The minister also said the government has budgeted to provide approximately 45,000 students across TT with mifi modems which will allow them to have access to the internet.
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  49. mih exclude
    • 2020 September 19, Dara Healy, “Brushstrokes of sisterhood”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[62]:
      Say wey yuh want, there's not a place on earth better/These islands sweet/Say wey yuh want, I will love mih country forever/These islands sweet/Say wey yuh want, there's not a place on earth better/These islands sweet/You could say wey yuh want, I love mih country forever
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    • 2020 August 22, Dara Healy, “Leah the jamette woman”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[63]:
      yuh sugar go melt when I done make mih play!
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  50. natex exclude
    • 2020 December 29, Clint Chan Tack, “Bharath still willing to help UNC”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[64]:
      Asked if there has been no communication with Persad-Bissessar or any natex member about his role in helping the party or addressing the concerns his team raised, Bharath replied, "Correct.
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  51. neurolyses exclude
    • 2021 January 5, Stephon Nicholas, “17 receive $367k in THA medical aid”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[65]:
      Among the 17, applications were made for eyeglasses, pacemaker, below knee prosthesis, above knee prosthesis, special wheelchair, power wheelchair, arthroscopy repair and scapholunate ligament repair, craniotomy for frontal tumour and neurolyses procedure.
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  52. nganga exclude
    • 2020 December 5, Dara Healy, “Pour libation for our silk cotton tree”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[66]:
      nganga meaning “a spiritual healer, diviner, and mediator who draws power...from messengers from the spirit world.
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  53. nuff exclude
    • 2020 May 24, Colin Robinson, “Make it easy for people to organise”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[67]:
      But, nuff said.
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  54. ochro exclude
    • 2020 November 28, Stephon Nicholas, “Personal choices to protect biodiversity”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[68]:
      In the quest for a homegrown supply of ochro, eggplant or pigeon peas, we can be easily frustrated by a myriad of natural elements.
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  55. orthopeadic exclude
    • 2020 December 20, Darren Bahaw, “Princess Elizabeth Centre hoping for $m Xmas miracle to complete new operating theatre”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[69]:
      A section of the new orthopeadic wing, which will house the new operating theatre, located at the Princess Elizabeth Centre, Ariapita Avenue, Port of Spain.
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  56. palmeritas exclude
    • 2020 December 10, Grevic Alvarado, “Venezuelan women on street-food hustle”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[70]:
      I started to make cakes, palmeritas, cachitos, puff pastry, among other sweets that Venezuelans like so much, and I offered them through social networks,” she said.
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  57. panside exclude
    • 2021 January 13, “Youth pannist gets BPTT Samaroo award”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[71]:
      The company and the panside, based at Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, share a 50-year partnership.
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  58. paranged exclude
    • 2021 January 1, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, “Workers protest at Lennox Petroleum CEO's house again”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[72]:
      The workers also paranged the CEO’s house on Christmas morning, after gathering at the company’s headquarters at Princess Margaret Street, San Fernando.
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  59. parrandero exclude
    • 2021 January 3, Ria Chaitram, “Famed Lopinot House falls to ruins, MP vows to restore landmark”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[73]:
      Gomez, who was also a parrandero with Los Amigo de Parrandero, said when work begins on Lopinot House only then he would feel at ease because too many promises were made over the years and nothing has materialised.
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  60. parranderos exclude
    • 2020 December 20, Janelle De Souza, “Joanne Briggs: an advocate for culture”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[74]:
      Briggs recalled that, for about three consecutive Christmases over 15 years ago, she wrote several newspaper articles on parranderos.
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    • 2020 May 24, Colin Robinson, “Make it easy for people to organise”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[75]:
      That said, the deep harms of our culture of non-transparency in national governance have been wildly on display in official explanations of the arrival of Santa Eloína and her six parranderos – as if we were effortlessly hoodwinked toddlers.
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    • 2020 December 31, Carol Quash, “Parang singer Jaggasar fights for love of her life”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[76]:
      Wayne Jagdeo has not been enjoying the best of health and we, together with friends, family and fellow parranderos pay tribute through music to this phenomenal leader/teacher/parrandero/and parang aficionado.
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  61. pecari exclude
    • 2020 December 19, Rhianna Mc Kenzie, “Wildlife survey suggests quenk numbers low”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[77]:
      We have enough (data) to say that we want to pay attention to the pecari, but other species are looking reasonably ok,” he said.
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  62. peong exclude
    • 2020 May 3, Colin Robinson, “Time we no longer have”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[78]:
      I had “the talk” with another one this week, my British “godson,” the curious 16-year-old soca peong whose queer questions in a Caribbean music site discussion thread linked us, who is now a 30-something-year-old doctor.
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  63. peptalk exclude
    • 2020 May 31, Colin Robinson, “Leave no good idea behind”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[79]:
      Since April 26’s start of this series on the recovery roadmap process and my proposals for it, publicly available here (bit.ly/RecoveryRoadmapResources_CAISO), I’ve repeatedly cited Rowley’s April 20 peptalk vision about the function of civil society organisations – as conduits to execute what Government proposes, with a readiness, capability and effectiveness Government lacks.
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  64. picoplatically exclude
    • 2020 October 10, Dara Healy, “Speaking picoplatically from a keskidee point of view”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[80]:
      Speaking picoplatically from a keskidee point of view
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  65. plas exclude
    • 2020 February 23, Clint Chan Tack, “Children have fun at Sando mas”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[81]:
      She might be little, but this masquerader from the Eccles Ville AC School proved she could plas mas as good as any other.
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  66. pothound exclude
    • 2020 December 27, Colin Robinson, “My Christmas story”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[82]:
      Siparia is in so many ways my “year in San Fernando.” Staying in the St Christopher’s rectory, I witnessed Boxing Day weddings; watched the pothound turn vicious after she’d given birth; and coming from a middle-class “mixer” family, experienced what it was like to take turns as children at mixing Christmas cake by hand, and churning ice cream.
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  67. ramajay exclude
    • 2020 June 29, Paolo Kernahan, “Covid19 and the old normal”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[83]:
      Consequently, an end to lockdown meant time to ramajay!
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    • 2020 May 11, Paolo Kernahan, “The covid19 test is just starting”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[84]:
      It isn’t a stretch to imagine our people interpreting the words “saved TT” as an all-clear to ramajay.
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  68. republicanhood exclude
    • 2020 October 4, Colin Robinson, “Portraits of the nation”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[85]:
      Revolution, race talk and the Sedition Act preoccupied Stalin four years before republicanhood.
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  69. revitialisation exclude
    • 2021 January 9, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, “PNM to focus on food security”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[86]:
      He said the THA already developed the Tobago Agri-Business Company, TADCO, commissioned the agricultural revitialisation arranged funding from the Agricultural Development Bank and bought equipment to support the industry.
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  70. runline exclude
    • 2020 October 11, Elspeth Duncan, “May you know what love is”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[87]:
      I decided I would go tomorrow, to find and speak with the owners and recommend a runline, which would at least enable the dog to have movement while still being secured.
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  71. sanskaar exclude
    • 2020 November 14, Dara Healy, “Illuminating the East Indian mission”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[88]:
      It imagines that “Dharti Maataa (Mother Earth) is sending the jahajis (ancestors) to the Caribbean...” to bring positivity (sanskaar) and to make TT their home.
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  72. sawatees exclude
    • 2020 December 14, Paolo Kernahan, “As they lead, so shall they follow”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[89]:
      Big sawatees have lavish covid19 weddings while zessers are expected to zess at home in their vests.
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  73. seabridge exclude
    • 2021 January 5, Stephon Nicholas, “Rowley: Don't leave governance up to chance”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[90]:
      Noting the scheduled 2021 arrival of the APT James and Buccoo Reef fast ferries to service the seabridge, Rowley said transport woes will soon be eliminated.
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    • 2021 January 6, Ken Chee Hing, “Fast ferry Buccoo Reef handed over to Govt”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[91]:
      THE Buccoo Reef, one of two fast ferries purchased to service the domestic seabridge, has been officially handed over to the Government, a release from Nidco has confirmed.
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    • 2021 January 10, Corey Connelly, “Tobago Chamber: New ferries will increase domestic travel”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[92]:
      The Tobago Business Chamber is hoping the addition of the APT James and Buccoo Reef to the seabridge will boost consumer confidence.
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  74. shac exclude
    • 2020 December 18, Joel Bailey, “CariFin to stage virtual 5K”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[93]:
      Participants also get the opportunity to earn a specially designed, crafted Christmas medal, featuring CariFin’s mascot, ‘OCE’, (our local ocelot found in our forest) shaking ‘shac shac’ with bags of goodies in hand.
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  75. sittin exclude
    • 2020 December 11, Rachael Espinet, “Back to the theatre”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[94]:
      Quoting Luther Vandross’ A House is not a Home, George said: “A chair is still a chair, even when there's no one sittin' there, but a chair is not a house and a house is not a home.
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  76. smartmanship exclude
    • 2020 July 12, Colin Robinson, “How same-sex roommates got left out”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[95]:
      And how homophobic badmind and legislative smartmanship have left unrelated people of the same sex covered only if they’re intimate.
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  77. socasonians exclude
    • 2020 October 26, Paolo Kernahan, “The dark at the end of the tunnel”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[96]:
      The entertainment industry is wearing similarly-styled monkey pants – musicians, artistes, socasonians, DJs, comedians, sound system companies and others are still under lockdown in the absence of public gatherings, parties and other amusements.
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  78. spadebill exclude
    • 2021 January 3, “Secret birds of Tobago”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[97]:
      Birds which tend to stick to the canopy are seldom seen without considerable neck pain; but there are several species which occupy a niche close to the forest floor and are just as infrequently encountered, such as the diminutive white-throated spadebill.
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  79. spadebills exclude
    • 2021 January 3, “Secret birds of Tobago”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[98]:
      White-throated spadebills often perch motionless above the forest floor, waiting for any sign of movement.
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  80. speechery exclude
    • 2020 May 31, Colin Robinson, “Leave no good idea behind”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[99]:
      Hence the speechery.
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  81. tajacu exclude
    • 2020 December 19, Rhianna Mc Kenzie, “Wildlife survey suggests quenk numbers low”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[100]:
      Wildlife biologist and lecturer in ecology at the University of the West Indies Dr Luke Rostant has said, from the results of a national wildlife survey, he believes special attention should be paid to the pecari tajacu – otherwise known as quenk – as numbers of the species in monitored areas are noticeably low.
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  82. tazers exclude
    • 2021 January 2, Ryan Hamilton-Davis, “Officers commended for their hard work”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[101]:
      He added that the police service launched the gender-based violence unit; increased recruit intake at the Police Academy from 100 to 200; promoted 300 police officers from ranks of corporal to assistant commissioner – making it the first time in ten years that all vacancies in the first division were filled - closed several high-profile investigations; established the police forensic laboratory, issued 1,500 firearm users licenses, ten times the usual amount; and introduced tazers, pepper spray and other non-lethal measures for policing.
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  83. tbc exclude
    • 2021 January 3, Marinasb, “And onwards we go”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[102]:
      Simply expressed goals, such as "we’ll reform the public service by a particular date, modernise the agricultural sector, including phased steps, by 202?, direct investment into the knowledge economy of $tbc by 202?," will exploit the unmasking of the fault lines in our society and educational system to thoroughly reshape how and where children learn.
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  84. thiefing exclude
    • 2021 January 5, Yvonne Webb, “UNC hails Chang Kit a hero, wants procurement law withdrawn”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[103]:
      When, as Senator Wade Mark said, a government come to make amendments to gut a procurement legislation to legalise thiefing, somebody has to say, ‘Stop,’ Chang Kit said enough is enough, and for that, citizens, civil society must protect him.
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  85. tief exclude
    • 2020 November 14, Dara Healy, “Illuminating the East Indian mission”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[104]:
      As we say, that’s a true “tief head” if ever there was one.
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  86. timecycle exclude
    • 2020 April 5, Colin Robinson, “The emotional epidemic”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[105]:
      So instead of freeing up time, staying home has compressed so much more effort into the same timecycle, as each domain of our day seems to have expanded, and together they overflow the still 24-hour period.
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  87. trainride exclude
    • 2020 May 3, Colin Robinson, “Time we no longer have”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[106]:
      A story of the long trainride of a bright, freshly-minted doctor off to the field, which rang instead like a young conscript’s ride to the frontlines of war.
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  88. tuh exclude
    • 2020 March 26, Kieran Khan, “Supermarkets adapt to pandemic change”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[107]:
      One local company, Groceries tuh Go Delivery Services, which was slated for launch later this year, has been moving rapidly to deploy in approximately the next two weeks.
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  89. undernoticed exclude
    • 2020 May 26, Colin Robinson, “Colin Robinson: In his own words”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[108]:
      I consistently feel like the book has been underappreciated, underreviewed, undernoticed.
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  90. underreviewed exclude
    • 2020 May 26, Colin Robinson, “Colin Robinson: In his own words”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[109]:
      I consistently feel like the book has been underappreciated, underreviewed, undernoticed.
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  91. vaps exclude
    • 2020 November 2, Paolo Kernahan, “Data-driven or politically driven?”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[110]:
      So what information are policy makers using to shape our destinies? Or is it government by vaps?
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  92. vibesy exclude
    • 2020 February 27, Narissa Fraser, “Behind the stage: Creators explain making of Iwer/Kees hit”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[111]:
      I like the original, I love the road mixes, I think its a vibesy song.
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  93. videovisit exclude
    • 2020 July 26, Colin Robinson, “Cancer trials”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[112]:
      My videovisit’s about to start.
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  94. voicenote exclude
    • 2021 January 13, Kinnesha George, “Tsoiafatt-Angus: All not well in PNM, Melville-Jack will lose”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[113]:
      In a WhatsApp voicenote on Wednesday, Tsoiafatt-Angus urged Tobagonians to ignore all the rhetoric, “designed to give to Tobagonians the perception that all is well in the house of the balisier.
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  95. voopin exclude
    • 2020 November 30, Paolo Kernahan, “At sea on migration”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[114]:
      After the PM’s all-rounder gave the nation a classic googly, it was Dr Rowley’s turn at bat – and it was mad voopin’.
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  96. wessers exclude
    • 2020 December 25, Sean Douglas, “President hits covid19 'zessers and wessers'”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[115]:
      And so, into the darkness that is the selfish, uncaring and I dare say downright doltish behaviour of those zessers and wessers who cannot do without a fete, a beach lime, or patronising a bar, and who are willing to put others' lives in jeopardy, a light shines brightly.
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  97. winkwink exclude
    • 2020 July 5, Colin Robinson, “Answers on the Domestic Violence Bill”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[116]:
      And, winkwink, they want you to know.
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  98. yuhself exclude
    • 2020 October 31, Dara Healy, “Breathing life into statues of wax”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[117]:
      Calypsonians really ketch hell for a long long time/To associate yuhself with them was a big big crime...
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  99. yute exclude
    • 2020 August 3, Paolo Kernahan, “I hate to say I told you so”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[118]:
      What does that leave for the yute dem?
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  100. zess exclude
    • 2020 December 14, Paolo Kernahan, “As they lead, so shall they follow”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[119]:
      Big sawatees have lavish covid19 weddings while zessers are expected to zess at home in their vests.
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  101. zesser exclude
    • 2020 December 3, Clint Chan Tack, “AG: Strategies for public, private gatherings being worked out”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[120]:
      Deyalsingh made his statements after concerns were raised about a zesser party in Kelly Village and a wedding in Valsayn.
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    • 2020 December 14, Ken Chee Hing, “Griffith hits posting of Tobago "zesser party" women's info online”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[121]:
      Griffith hits posting of Tobago "zesser party" women's info online
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  102. zessers exclude
    • 2020 December 25, Sean Douglas, “President hits covid19 'zessers and wessers'”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[122]:
      And so, into the darkness that is the selfish, uncaring and I dare say downright doltish behaviour of those zessers and wessers who cannot do without a fete, a beach lime, or patronising a bar, and who are willing to put others' lives in jeopardy, a light shines brightly.
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    • 2020 December 14, Paolo Kernahan, “As they lead, so shall they follow”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[123]:
      Big sawatees have lavish covid19 weddings while zessers are expected to zess at home in their vests.
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  103. zwilled exclude
    • 2020 August 24, Paolo Kernahan, “Advice for young journos”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[124]:
      At a covid19 news conference, a reporter had her kite zwilled by a medical professional.
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  1. ajo exclude
    • 2021 January 24, “Vines a plenty to weave baskets”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[125]:
      According to Wikipedia, among the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest it is known as “ajo sacha,” a Spanish-Quechua name that means “forest garlic” or “wild garlic.” This vine bears beautiful bracts of pale lilac blooms and is easily propagated from cuttings.
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  2. asa exclude
    • 2021 January 26, “Invest to keep Asa Wright open”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[126]:
      In the past we have talked about diversifying our economy to encourage tourism, so here is a well-established wonder in asa wright, voted three years in a row by the world trade awards, in the early 2000s, as the world's leading eco-tourism destination.
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  3. bono exclude
    • 2020 January 5, Kieran Khan, “Asha Claxton: 100 ideas to your best self”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[127]:
      My two candidates in St Maarten both won their parliamentary elections and given my current independence I am assisting one, pro bono in their final phase at present,” she noted.
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    • 2021 January 26, Rhianna Mc Kenzie, “Ramdeen urges MoE to do right by CXC students”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[128]:
      Ramdeen offered his services to parents’ pro bono after parents banded together to put pressure on the ministry to take legal action against the council.
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  4. catus exclude
    • 2020 November 28, Stephon Nicholas, “Personal choices to protect biodiversity”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[129]:
      Felis catus or the domestic cat is responsible for the extinction of 63 species of animals thus far, and is driving countless more to the brink.
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  5. eleison exclude
    • 2021 January 3, Elspeth Duncan, “A wish for Tobago's only goat sanctuary”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[130]:
      As her lone voice echoes in the womb-like darkness of the towering 350-year old sugar mill that stands on her property, the German Christmas carol takes on a haunting, ethereal quality: “Maria durch ein Dornwald ging...Kyrie, eleison”...
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  6. hoc exclude
    • 2020 December 9, Jensen La Vende, “Man in custody for Ashanti Riley’s killing: I only drove the car”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[131]:
      What is the dosage? How much is enough to stop an attack? We cannot be so ad hoc to appease the families of victims.
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  7. nauseam exclude
    • 2020 August 23, Ryand, “Rewrite the planning code, Madam Minister”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[132]:
      The regulations that the T&CPD uses to set the parameters for land development need to be overhauled, taking into account public needs and environmental realities – a point that I have stressed ad nauseam in this column over the last two years.
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  8. operandi exclude
    • 2020 April 21, Arthur Dash, “Way to a better tomorrow”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[133]:
      The public service has to move away from a system whose modus operandi remains rooted in pro-independence operations to one of modern business practices.
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  9. pati exclude
    • 2020 November 1, Elspeth Duncan, “Redefining compassion and mercy”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[134]:
      pati, means "to suffer," while the prefix
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  10. populi exclude
    • 2020 October 10, Dara Healy, “Speaking picoplatically from a keskidee point of view”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[135]:
      Vox populi – the voice of the people
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  11. tuberosa exclude
    • 2020 November 19, Tyrell Gittens, “Palmiste Historical Society nurtures mini-cocoa, coffee estate”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[136]:
      Ruellia tuberosa, a flowering plant also known as fever root, snapdragon root and sheep potato, in bloom at the Palmiste Park.
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