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BE VIEWING CCN TV 6 EVERY MONDAY AT 5PM The Program For Today’s Youth Don’t you miss it! • Drama • Fun • InFormatIve Youth NO. 12 ISSUE NO. 12 ADDRESSING BOLDLY, ISSUES OF THE DAY [email protected]Cost $2.50 PAGE 3 reCoverInG aFter FeroCIouS SanDY A mother of two, who survived the storm, tells heartline of her experience. Page 10 Face up With Pastor Clive Dottin Page 7 rising above discrimination to build t&t Page 19 are you really healthy? Page 20 abuse Survivor’s new lease on life Page 20 InSIDe: more StorIeS: ARE WE AN ANGRY SoCIetY?
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Be Viewing
CCn TV 6eVery Monday
aT 5pM
The Program For Today’s Youth Don’t you miss it!
• Drama • Fun • InFormatIve
Youth
NO. 12 ISSUE NO. 12ADDrESSINg bOlDly, ISSUES Of thE DAy [email protected]
Cost $2.50
page 3
reCoverInG aFter FeroCIouS SanDY
a mother of two, who survived the storm, tells heartline of her experience. Page 10
Face upWith Pastor Clive DottinPage 7
rising above discrimination to build t&tPage 19
are you really healthy?Page 20
abuse Survivor’s new lease on lifePage 20
InSIDe:
more StorIeS:
are we an angry SoCIetY?
Thirty-seven year old for-mer drug addict, Andy Ma-hadeo admits that he once allowed his anger to con-trol him. “I would curse and I would chuck people in their faces. When I got an-gry, I would destroy things. I even destroyed all my clothes because I was an-gry” he said. His parents were also victims of his rage. “I lighted my par-ent’s home on fire. My parents had to leave their home,” Mahadeo told Heartline News in an inter-view. He began using drugs at a very early age in his life and developed a rep-
u t a t i o n of be-ing an-gry and a g g r e s -sive. He a d m i t -ted that a l m o s t e v e r y -one was afraid of him. He was e v e n t u -ally ar-r e s t e d for rob-bery and was incarcerated. But his imprisonment may have been a blessing in disguise;
it was while serving time in prison that he began attending anger manage-ment classes which helped
him identify the “triggers” to his anger.
are We an anGrY SoCIetY?Pg 3heartline News [email protected] hEArtlINE - mAIN fOCUS Issue No. 12
Whilst studying at the University of the West Indies, 28 year old Junior John (not real name) was dangerously addicted to coffee. His addiction began in the first year of his studies. He would often drink a single cup of coffee to get him through the night as he studied. How-ever, by his third year in university, his craving for caffeine escalated. He began drinking his coffee black, be-cause he felt that it gave him the “adrenaline rush” that regular coffee failed to. But as time went by, his body yearned for more and more caffeine; it was no longer enough to simply drink the coffee. John literally began eating the coffee grains from the jar in its raw state.
I hate the way I look! I’m too fat! I want to look like her! I’m not muscular enough!
These are all things teenagers can be heard uttering from time to time. Many of them despise their own bodies and would gladly trade it in for another. If you should conduct a random poll among teenagers, you will be surprised at just how many of them would give anything to have bod-ies like super models Naomi Campbell and Adriana Lima.
bUt why DO thEy fEEl thIS wAy?
Surrounded by everything that makes them feel inferior, how can they escape? Televi-sion, daily press, magazines, and radio stations constantly purport that being thin makes you beautiful, that having muscles makes you valu-able. The average model today is 25% lighter (or in local parlance skinnier) than an average woman. In addition, Hollywood usually portrays their male heroes as strong, muscular and buff. As a result smaller men who do not have six-packs are overlooked or portrayed as less at-tractive.
A few weeks ago, our min-ister of finance delivered a billion dollar budget. One of the issues that arose is the 43.75 % increase in the price of premium gasoline from $4 to $5.75 per litre. Many have voiced their disagreement with such an initiative; some be-lieve that the public should not be subjected to such an increase. As far as is known, there are two groups of people that may be affected- persons with private vehicles and taxi drivers. All hope is not lost thoug
Are you thinking about purchasing property? Is anyone you know considering buying a new home? If so, there are a few things that you should know.
HOWDO MORTGAGES WORK?
A mortgage is a loan to finance the purchase
of your property or home. Furthermore, a mort-gage is a written document that contains a mortgagor and a mortgagee. The mortgagor is the borrower, typically the home buyer. The mortgagee is the lender, the entity lending money to the buyer. your payment can double when the in-terest rate resets.
TIpS WHEn OBTAInInG A MORTGAGE
BuYInG a home? aDvISe on mortGaGeS
GaS hIke anD SavInGSPg 22 heartline News [email protected] mONEy mAttErS Issue No. 12
Men between the ages of 45-60 normally go through life changes. It is a developmental stage that men experience after the young adult stage. It is accom-panied with tiredness and boredom over the things they have been doing for many years. Because of the age as it relates to midlife the reality of fifty year olds, it’s a significant mark between childhood and one hundred years. Many of us as men don’t have a vision of living till then. Basi-cally this is a biological clock change that comes naturally.
Men in mIDlIFe CrISISBy: Dr. Lealand Henry
A very important question which is difficult for most doctors and health care practitioners to conclusively answer is, “What is health?” The question regards such a common topic in society that the answer seems obvious. But can you answer it? Why is it critical to be able to answer this very important question correctly? For one, our life depends on it! Secondly if we don’t know what it is we will not
know how to possess it and if it is lost we will not know how to regain it. Thirdly when we come to truly understand what health really is, we will also understand that without it, we could never live a truly effective life where our God-given potential is realized, es-pecially in the area of our spiritual potential.
neW leaSe on lIFe There was once a time when Camika Carter wanted to die. She felt like life was not worth living because happiness seemed to elude her. The man who had promised to love her “till death do us part” turned out to be a cruel, violent man who constantly reigned blows on her and brought nothing but pain and misery to her life for 14 years. In one of the many episodes of those beatings, he literally held her by the hair as she was about to go out, dragged her around the length and breadth of their yard and then took her into the house where he at-tempted to cram her in the washing machine, head first. The couple’s seven children also suffered; they were witnesses to many of the violent attacks. Some-times their father turned his anger on them, beating them violently as well.
Camika had married with the hope of finding the love and happiness she had been searching for all her life
ROHAnDRA JOHn
Pg 17heartline News [email protected] hEArtlINE - fEAtUrED yOUth - SAmUEl DyEr Issue No. 12
Q&A With
SAMUELDyerSamuel Dyer is one of Trinidad and Tobago’s
most well-respected and admired gospel min-isters. His ministry has not only been confined to his homeland, but God has taken him across the Caribbean and even allowed him to min-ster extensively in the United States of Amer-ica. With his gifted hands and anointed voice, he has given many a worship experience of a lifetime. Heartline News is pleased to feature Dyer, as he presses towards the mark of “his high calling.”
Hn. Thanks for taking the time out to facili-tate this interview with Heartline news. What are you up to these days?
DyER: Well at this present time I’m back in the recording studio doing the thing I love to do most-music.
Hn. To those readers who may not know about Samuel Dyer, how would you describe your-self?
DyER: I was born in the beautiful Island of Trinidad lol.... I am one of Trinidad’s leading gospel recording artistes. I am also a praise and worship leader. I released a few hit songs and produced two albums. I am the husband of one wife and a father of one son. I’m down to earth and humble and most in importantly, I fear the Lord.
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NO. 12 ISSUE NO. 12tOUChINg bASE wIth thE ChUrCh fEAtUrE PAgE [email protected]
Church
His death came suddenly and was a hard pill for his beloved family to swallow. To Rev. Margaret Lee, his wife of 41 years, Dr. Randall Lee was a faithful, God-fearing, hus-band and advisor. To their chil-dren, Brent and Sean, he proved to be a committed father, friend and mentor. They all had a hard time saying goodbye to Lee who passed away suddenly from a heart-attack on October 11.
remembering an exemplary man of God
Pg 3Aheartline News [email protected] hEArtlINE ChUrCh - gOD IS gOOD Issue No. 12
Michelle Jarah Jemmott was devastated at the thought of losing her right breast after she was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. She discovered a lump in her breast, in early December 2011. “I was surprised and confused. I won-dered where this lump came from,” she told Heartline in an interview.
Natalle Carr, 35, was pleas-antly surprised when she found out that she was pregnant after 13 years. But her heart sunk after she experi-enced heavy bleeding two months into her pregnancy and doctors in-dicated that she was having a mis-carriage. After giving birth to two childre
CanCer SurvIvor tellS oF GoD’S GooDneSS anD learnS to relY on hIm…
