Hosts ‘Outfit International’ prison band

“We are very pleased to welcome “Outfit International”, a talented soca-parang band housed inside the “special gated community,” Vicki Assevero, founder of the Green Market said.

“Those are the words the Commissioner of Prisons Sterling Stewart uses to describe where his wards live.” Superintendent for Programmes, Charmaine Johnson also expressed her pleasure at the collaborative outreach, “We have been very successfully using music as therapy.

We have watched how playing music together has helped to transform the attitudes of the incarcerated and restore them for the community.” Outfit’s performance will start at 8.15 am and again at 10 am. There will be an opportunity to have a conversation about restorative justice, how it works and its potential for reducing crime.

Denise Aleong, vice president of the Inter American and Caribbean Association of Small Hotels (INCAPH) will kick of the Green Market’s All month the market will focus on different aspects of sustainable tourism and particularly on the linkages among agriculture, local food and crafts and tourism.

INCAPH’s Trinidad & Tobago members will be raffling off vouchers for drinks, dinners and stays in order to encourage the general public to patronise and support smaller hotels and inns.

Aleong’s talk comes just as vogue.com listed Trinidad as one of its Ten Hottest Worldwide destinations.

The Green Market is inviting the people of TT to place their wishes for 2017 in a special wish box that will be available during the entire month of January. “We want our patrons, vendors and the larger TT community to express their wishes for their communities, our nation and the world and to suggest ways of making those wishes come true” The Green Market is open every Saturday from 6 am -1 pm providing an array of fresh farm products, food to eat and drink on site, interesting local artisanal foods and crafts, and stimulating conversation in a beautiful landscape