Newsletter for
alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 30 of June 2018 No. 869
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Dear Friends,
Here is an article
on a product that you might want to get a franchise
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Toddy Ramsahai enterprise
Check out this
article - wonder if someone will bring this to Ottawa!
A DOUBLES factory operator in San Juan
says the company has invented a doubles-making machine and a pholourie machine,
which can cut production times of the local culinary delights by 40 per cent.
The doubles machine
can produce up to 1,000 doubles an hour while the pholourie machine can make
12,000 pholouries in an eight-hour shift.
The machines are the
brainchild of Toddy Ramsahai of Radha Swami Industries Ltd, the company which
owns and operates supermarket-based doubles outlets branded as “Doubles King”.
For the past three
years, the Boundary Road, San Juan factory has been using the machines to
mass-produce barra and pholourie which are then sold to local vendors.
In an interview with
Express Business at the factory last Friday, Ramsahai disclosed that a
businessman in England has already put in an order for the machines.
“The England client
has a roti business and he wants to diversify into doubles and pholourie now.
He came to Trinidad
and tested them out.
We’re in the process
of exporting,” he said. “The initial idea behind the machine was to simplify
the doubles-making process and to make the barra more consistent, so when you
go to buy doubles you will have a consistent type of product.”
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GEORGE
MICKIEWICZ <amickiew@att.net>
Jun 29 at 7:39 AM
Hi Ladislao
Please post this update by Don Goddard
in your next Circular.
Un fuerte Abrazo,
Yury
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On Thursday, June 28, 2018 1:02 PM,
Donald
A Goddard <dgodda1@lsu.edu> wrote:
Gentlemen:
In a phone call this morning from Tony
Seheult, he mentioned the possibility of Richard Galt making it to the Mount
Reunion on October 14th.
That's great news.
I've attached the updated list.
It's worth reminding all that wives
and children are more than welcome.
Around end of September, when we know
more about the amount of people that will be attending our "Mount
Boy" reunion ,
I'll put together an agenda for the
Sunday (10/14) and Monday (10/15).
It will be based on Marlene's and
Lionel's free time on those days.
George, please forward to the rest of
the Mount Group through Ladislao or Don M.
Thanks,
Donald G.
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MOUNT BOY REUNION IN ST. PETERSBURG,
FLORIDA
Suggested date:October14, 15, 16, 2018
1)
George Mickiewicz
2)
Donald Goddard
3)
Christian Goddard
4)
Salvador Coscarart
5)
Pedro Coscarart
6)
BermentMcDowald
7)
Neil Charles
8)
Glen Schaefer
9)
Anthony Seheult
10)
Paul de Verteuil
11)
AzierAtela
12)
Garnet Diaz
13)
Glen McKoy
14)
Richard Galt
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dbratt@trinidad.net
Talking to eat
The saga of Nyron Morales is
instructive. At the age of six, an apparently healthy, active boy, he was “held
down” by a close relative and mistakenly given bleach to drink.
Because he had a
cough.
Bleach is corrosive
so he ended up with a badly burnt voice box and windpipe, and a blocked-up
throat and oesophagus, the tube that leads from the throat to the stomach. He
spent the next six years of his life in and out of local hospitals until some
sort of corrective surgery was done in New York.
Despite this, today,
he is still unable to eat and swallow food and has to be fed a special liquid
diet by a tube which passes from outside his body, through his abdominal wall
and ends up in his stomach. This special diet is expensive and his guardian can
barely afford to maintain his diet.
Nyron’s amazing
story illustrates many of the problems the public and the health system face in
T&T, as well as some of the limitations reporters face in trying to detail
the tragic circumstances surrounding a child’s life. Clearly there is more to
the family and social story than we read.
But even limiting
ourselves to the written details, there is a sordid smell to the medical
history.
He was “held down”
and given a liquid that was thought to be cough medicine supposedly because he
had a cough.
Really, no one is
supposed to hold down a fighting six-year-old and force medicine down his
throat.
But in our backward
little island society, where children are still supposed to be seen but not
heard, where they are daily brutalized the same way we ill-treat dogs, old
calypsonians and homosexuals, who will have considered that maybe, just maybe,
something was wrong with “holding down” a healthy six-year-old, to force a
totally unnecessary drug down his throat?
Because, make no
mistake about it, that “cough medicine” was totally unnecessary.
Cough medicines are
useless. But we have become so conditioned to believe the drug advertisements
on the radio and TV and in our newspapers that we believe all the nonsense they
tell us about cough medicines and vitamins and Viagra and hair tonics and
calcium, ad nauseam.
So a little boy’s
life is initially destroyed because he had a cough. Just a simple ordinary
little cough that some gentle honey and lime would have helped.
Then you have the
all too familiar tale of medicine in the wrong bottle, no doubt a sweet-drink
one. The same sort of bottle that you use to buy a little Gramaxone, the aptly
named “Indian Tonic”, responsible for hundreds of suicides in T&T.
Perhaps we can start
calling bleach “Child Tonic”? One of its many side-effects is to make little
children hungry.
Nyron then spent six
years in and out of hospital without anyone being able to solve his problem.
Unlike our all-knowing and all-powerful politicians who, like medium-sized fish
in a small pool, revel in small populations, local doctors cannot build up
enough experience in rare medical conditions to gain the experience needed to
correct these wrongs. There are certain diseases which we will always need to
refer away to a larger country with larger populations. We know this.
Should there not be
a system in place to accommodate needy people? We have the money. As it is now,
only a well-off person can get on a plane and fly away for whatever treatment
is needed. Children like Nyron have to depend on charity.
Now comes the coup
d’etat. Because his throat and voice box and oesophagus were destroyed by the
bleach and because he spent six years unable to swallow, Nyron lost the ability
to speak and to swallow. After reconstruction he needed to be taught how to use
the complex system of co-ordination that we call swallowing.
This is similar to
teaching a stroke victim how to speak again. Swallowing and speaking are really
two sides of the same coin. Nyron needed the services of a speech therapist to
teach him how to swallow.
Therein lies the
rub. There is no speech therapist and there has been no speech therapist in the
Government Health Service for the last ten years. This deficiency has been
brought to the attention of the administrators in the Ministry of Health and
the various Regional Health Authorities repeatedly.
Nothing has been
done. Repeatedly.
And this is how you
end up with a starving 17-year-old Trinidadian boy who weighs 59 pounds.
Already I hear the
call. Bring in Cuban speech therapists. Yes.
Maybe they can teach
him to swallow in Spanish.
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11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: That
will be great, one of my sons is in Fort Worth Texas
11-02-2017 Zanelli Enrique: Thats
only a couple of hours from here.... is he the ball player? What school?
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Yes
at Wesleyan, the other plays at Hannibal in Missouri
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: Frank....cara
e vieja....this is Edgar Moffie....long time don't hear about you....ok
baseball player from Mount....how life taking you????....
11-02-2017 Zanelli Enrique: Jajajaja....
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: hello everybody
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Hola Edgar!!! Cómo
estás? I was just looking at a photo where we all together....jajajajaja
11-02-2017 Kenny Azizul: Hey
sal I do not have skippy # if u have it maybe u can add him
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: Hola frank como estas. Todavia en
republica dominicana.
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Sà todavÃa por aquÃ, cómo estás?
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: i will Azi , Muy bien gracias a
dios y tu.
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Echando pa'lante!
11-02-2017 Zanelli Enrique: Ayer nos comimos unos Rotis .....
salvador mandales la foto para q te vean lo bien q estas...😅😅
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: The
pic I have is with both Garners, Francisco, Aitor, Alfredo, Giorgo, this other
guy from Barquisimeto whose mother had a flower.decoration shop..
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: El se llama Caraballos
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Carlos si no mal recuerdo su
nombre, un jodedor pana...jajajajajaja
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: Eating Goat Roty
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Jajajajaja...
11-02-2017 Zanelli Enrique: Ese roti me jodio toda la noche
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: Los hermanos Garcia que eran de
zaraza.
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: Correccion CARABAŇO..ese mismo ee
gusto en saber de ti.....en lo que tenga chance lee envio fotos......por alli
en mi perfil individual debe haber una. Correcto
Carlos Carabano.....
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: It
is always a great pleasure to visit with the old boys from mount. Who
remembers Alfredo y Mario Domingues. los llamabamos Conejito.
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: Salvador
and Enrique if the roty missed you up.....is because you did not used good
Trinidad Curry.....
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Una vez Carlos estaba bateando y
el catcher lanzó a tercera y se la metió a Carlos en la cara...jajajajajaja
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: I
did not have a problem. i swallode mine. jajajaja
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: Sure
boy they used to limb with Snoopy and Luis Silva......
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: El que esta bien y viviendo en
maracaibo es Guillermo Rivera , lo llamabamos (Trotu). Frank trotu vivia cerca
de tu casa. en caracas. Como estan tus padres frank?
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: Ian
......can you tell us about the Ramlogan
brothers???...... from.the hotel down in Tunapuna...
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: The
Scarlet Ibis hotel. Sarkis
Farchahk esta en florida cerca de mi hermano Pedro. my cell is 337-412-8751
11-02-2017 1 Ibarra Frank: Sà Trotú vivÃa cerca de casa y nos
veÃamos a siempre. Mis padres fallecieron hace ya algún tiempo. Cómo está
Pedro, recuerdo cuando me quedé unos dÃas en tu casa
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: Mi sentido pesame lo siento.
11-02-2017 Ibarra Frank: Gracias!
11-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: si . Pedro esta muy bien y
viviendo en St Petersbourg florida . Ya tiene un nieto. Si me acuerdo cuando
pasates ese fin de semana con nosotros en cumana y luego fuistes a pasar unos
dias con mis primos en cantaura.
11-02-2017 Kenny Azizul: Sal
send me a roti nah. Hey Kevin how is Kamal
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: Azizul
Mohamed???......this is Edgar Moffie....brother long time I don't hear about
you....
11-02-2017 Kenny Azizul: How
u doing my brother long long time I am always in touch with Salvador I live in
New Jersey how about u
11-02-2017 Ramsahai Winston 99: Sal
ask for a Red Solo and roti ..... Add Jimmy Samaroo 1-868-774-4999. Kelvin nice
to connect. Edgar Winston no 1-868-774-4999 email : infowinston@yahoo.com.
Zul what's the name of our professor in San Diego
11-02-2017 Moffie Edgar: That's
what I notice.....but did'nt know you were living in usa.....good for you
congratulations.....tell me what are you doing....I got retiried two years now
with five years in the main oil company PDVSA after they expropiated Exterran
formal Co from Houston in Venezuela...I was in Exterran for 15 years handling
logistics and custom duties for his company in Venezuela....well as you see
hanging in there...if it wouldn't be for crisis. Thanks brother....
11-02-2017 Zanelli Victor: She
is from Tunapuna.
11-02-2017 Ramsahai Winston 99: Add
Alfredo Seaforth from the interior early 70s 011584148389255. Jimmy Samaroo
18686851185. Victor nice to connect most of us trying to retire ...... this may
be our last bang to reconnect ASAA
Kenny Azizul: Hey
Vic how u Ling time
11-02-2017 Ramsahai Winston 99: Aziz
any contact for Krishna Toolsie and Skippy. Hudson Glen And Garner brothers
11-02-2017 Kenny Azizul: I
saw Krishna was on earlier
11-02-2017 Ramsahai Winston 99: Ok
any contact with the guys from Canada. Jimmy should be connected soon
11-02-2017 Kenny Azizul: No
I am only in contact with Gangie up here
11-02-2017 Ramsahai Winston 99: That's
nice let's keep in touch. Peter Tang
12-02-2017 Coscarart Salvador: Thank
you winston
12-02-2017 Ramsahai
Winston 99: Add Jimmy
18686851185. Suggest we post clean humor on weekend
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com,
if you would like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you
would like to include.
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Photos:
53MBS0006ABBEY, By Marie Boissere
17LK0001TRA, Toddy Ramsahai
15LK9423FBMNE, Michael Rezende
08UN1590REUNION2008, Gordon Mitchell, UNKNOWN, Dennis Gurley
