About 10 million people in the United States alone from troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphones are suffering from impairing noise-induced hearing loss. The rising trend is something that researchers and physicians at the University of Michigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute are hoping to reverse, with a cock
Of Carnival, time and flowers in the road
Tuesday 9 March 2021
For Sonja Dumas, the inability to storm a J’Ouvert band on Monday morning before the crack of dawn was the biggest difference of all for Carnival 2021. -
SONJA DUMAS
THAT Carnival took a different turn this year is an understatement. The streets were strangely barren without the reverberations of too-loud music trucks, the pitched bits of costumes in the gutter, the pretty feathers and beads bobbing up and down ad nauseam on bikini-ed bodies or chests with ripped pectorals – all part of the DNA of the festival.
I kept waiting for the occasional gorilla band, the blue/white /red/black /green and, yes, yellow devils, to appear.