Carib Brewery celebrates 70 years of premium beers

Newsday

Drinks in the air: Singer/Songwriter Kerwin Du Bois hoists his beer in the air during the shooting of the Can You Feel It video as part of Carib’s rebranding and launch of Carib Blue. PHOTOS COURTESY CARIB -

For 70 years, Carib has been inte

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Pan Trinbago elections cancelled: Fuad gives Ramsey-Moore deadline to respond to legal letter

Anna-Lisa Paul - T&T Guardian

Former chairman of the Eastern Region of Pan Trinbago Vernon Morancie, left keeps Frauf Abu Bakr outside during the Pan Trinbago media conference

Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore and the central executive c

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WPC Josanne George gives gifts of music, hope to children in need

SHANE SUPERVILLE - Newsday

WPC Josanne George wants to use her passion for music to help others. - Photo courtesy TTPS -

An Arima native, George joked she has always had music in her blood as her father, the late Lloyd George, served as secretary for

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Miami Carnival is back at Miami-Dade Fairgrounds with revelers covered in masks

BY ALEX MIRANDA, MATTHEW AUERBACH  -- WSVN-TV.

Better get some rest right now. You’re gonna be partying all weekend.

The Miami Carnival is back!

After going virtual last year, the celebration of Caribbean culture is taking over the Miami-Dade Fairgr

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Author Mary Cuffy uses Lola the ladybug to make learning easy

Newsday

Mary Cuff has written three children's books based on the loveable character, Lola the ladybug. - Photo by Roger Jacob

Reminiscent of Sesame Street, the books use fun and music to help children learn. The first book helps with learning to co

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Pan-Jam in Powis Square

Officially, it was Steel the Show. Unofficially, it was a blockorama. And in reality, it was a bit of a tight squeeze. No dispute, though, about the outcome: great fun.

It was an inspired thought to give us some glistening, ringing steelpan to chee

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Elected Treasurer Tenders his resignation while appointed Treasurer sits in office with allegations of corruption lingering over her head

I hereby tender my resignation with immediate effect, twenty-five days earlier than originally intended.

After surviving many vain attempts to oust me and impugn my name and character, the proverbial last straw that broke the camel's back was the Pr

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Miami Carnival Panorama, The Pulsating + Sweet Sounds of The Steelpan

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African-American drum and bugle corps: then and now by Harold Craig Barber

For decades before the rise of the great Brooklyn steel orchestras, outstanding large drum and bugle corps were an integral part of all black neighborhoods and the black musical experience, particularly in Brooklyn. The late Max Roach (Brooklyn), and

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Doctors fear ‘ethical minefield’ of deciding who lives, dies from COVID [DEATH PANELS COMING TO TRINIDAD]

Guardian October 26, 2021

"With Intensive Care Unit spaces in the parallel healthcare system now almost gone, doctors are now closer to being placed in a position where they will have to choose who gets the critical, life-saving COVID-19 treatment. D

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PANTRINBAGO/ TUCO BACCHANAL- Factions team up to call for Elections

TV6 - Me Headlines

Trinidad and Tobago is the mecca of carnival so there's really no surprise whenever there's a bacchanal within anyone of the main organizations. Calypso and Steelpan birthed right here, have long with staples in the festival with v

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..it was the steel drum cover of Black Box's early '90s pop house cut, "Everybody Everybody "

Run for cover! It’s DJ Nu-Mark’s exclusive FREAKS ONLY mix

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Steelpan web documentary series A Better Tomorrow: Kareem Brown premieres Friday

Newsday - VEELA MUNGAL

Mark Loquan, left, and Kareem Brown -

Mark Loquan premieres a new six-part steelpan web documentary series on his YouTube channel on October 8. A couple months into the onset of the covid pandemic last year Loquan was inspire

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Attention, Pan Trinbago president

Aquil Arrindell San City Steel Symphony

To Ms Beverly Ramsey Moore, President of Pan Trinbago:

As we all know, the next Pan Trinbago election is constitutionally due between the time period September 1 to October 31, 2021.

At the end of October, ac

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Trying to put pandemic in pan’s way is putting democracy at risk

Dennise Demming - Wired868.com

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is now run by a non-elected normalisation committee appointed by the sport’s world umbrella body, The Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa).

Led by

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ExxonMobil ups Stabroek resource estimate to approximately 10 billion barrels [Well yuh think yuh could GO TO GUYANA and say yuh have OIL ... Yuh mad OH MEH LARD, OHHH!!!]

Stabroek News October 7, 2021

ExxonMobil has increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana to approximately 10 billion oil-equivalent barrels. 

The updated resource estimate includes a new dis

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Pan Moving Forward Corrupt and Misleading Letter from South Central Regional Executive- PanTrinbago

Maurice Alexander

Pan Moving Forward Corrupt and Misleading Letter from South Central Regional Executive- PanTrinbago

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Don urges Nigerian Navy to develop steelpan music technology

The Nation

Nigeria - An Associate Professor of Music at the Lagos State University, Isaac Yekini-Ajenifuja, has challenged the Nigeria Navy Music School (NNMS), Ota, Ogun State to create a global unbeatable identity for itself with its knowledge o

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Congratulations to panist Nakiya Athina de Freitas on receiving her BA in Musical Arts

I'm happy to have taken this journey and I can't wait to see where the wind will blow me next. Who knows where I'll end up? But until then, I can proudly say... Nakiya A. de Freitas, BA in Musical Arts (Sp.) with First Class Honors. #UWI #UWISTA #Gra

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Local steel drum bands unite

September 21, 2021 by Anne Berleant on Arts & living, Lifestyle

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