She was promiscuous when most 13-year-olds were simply holding hands giggling and whispering to each other about their puppy love crushes. »

Her father bought her a pair of new black panties and instructed her to put them on now. She was a toddler; topless and running around her grandmother’s kitchen, in her new panties; too innocent to know what he had on his mind. ’I remember him saying, you’re looking good in those panties, when you get older you will look real good,’ says Lisa Harris-Corbitt. ’My father was a sexual deviant,’ she adds, bitting into her bottom lip; fighting back the tears. ’Years later he confessed that he would drug me with chloroform and rape me.’ Her tears begin to flow. ’I have no memory of the sex, maybe I repressed it. But I had lots of nightmares and in the nightmares I would be raped by him.’ The sexual abuse stopped at 18, but the sexual harassment continued until she was in her late 30s; culminating in a stack of love letters her father wrote her. »

ANGELA: When did you hear about your Grammy win? Were you at home or at the Grammys? »

He’s not a psychologist. He has no background, whatsoever in psychology or psychotherapy. His, he claims, is a layman’s perspective: no pun intended! ’Most of it, I picked up throughout my life; talking to older men, in particular,’ says Christopher P. Nokio, the author of an eye-catching and heading spinning, soon to be very controversial, new e-book called A Man’s Guide to Good Cheating: What MOST Men Want to Know but what ALL Women Should Know. ’A couple of the tips I took from my own life,’ he laughs. ’I had a very eventful young adult life.’ »

When he barked instructions to move as soon as the MC was done introducing the band, it finally dawned on me. I am standing centre stage at the Grand Stand carrying the banner for Phase II at Panorama semi-finals, how did this happen? When I left home, it was for a little chip and wine at the savannah. Words from David Rudder’s ’Madness’ filled my head ’this is not a fete in here this is madness’. Well maybe this is more the madness. »

He was thrilled. No; not thrilled but flabbergasted, royally smitten and simply blown away. »

Dear Marguerite: »

Dear Marguerite: »

There are kids flying upside down, in Port of Spain. And some of them are soaring to neck-breaking heights. ’We have some who are one month old,’ says Annette Telfer the force behind Tots and Tumblers.’They are coming in pampers,’ she laughs. »

With approximately seven days to Carnival and the completion of this programme, I need to share with my readers what first got me to the doorsteps of my career. It was aerobic dance popularly called aerobics here in TnT. »