The Antigua Observer
Reigning Panorama champions Hells Gate Steel Orchestra will become the first steelband in Antigua and Barbuda to receive a national honour, after the government decided to confer the accolade on the 75-year-old band during the 2
Read more…It is almost MIDNIGHT and TRUMP is still in the game.
Now my only gripe with TRUMP is that he did not START A WAR WITH CHINA for releasing THE COVID VIRUS against THE WEST to destroy our economies. And the reason he could not do that is because PUTIN
Read more…Trinidad Express October 23, 2020
Now in its 34th year, the Divali Nagar has grown into the largest celebration of its kind in the western hemisphere. Now the producers expect that this virtual run because of Covid-19 will attract as large a number o
Newsday October 3, 2020
“We can’t expect too many goodies, if any goodies at all,” Dumas predicted. “It is a difficult situation. I have to say that I would not like to be in the Minister of Finance’s (Colm Imbert’s) shoes at this time, because he wi
Read more…LAUREN RAMESBOTTOM - The loop
The rappers might be ready to bury the hatchet
You know what they say… keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Well, it would seem that is precisely what Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are doing. The Hip Hop queens
Read more…Guardian November 1st, 2020
Responding to the editorial published on October 30, in which TUCO was taken to task on its alleged failure to adequately preserve the works of the calypso art form, Masimba said there was no fact or truth to the editorial
Read more…Known for its world-renowned, award-winning faculty, the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami is pleased to announce eleven new esteemed faculty hires for 2020-2021.
LEON FOSTER THOMAS – STUDIO MUSIC & JAZZ
Leon Foster Thomas is a gifte
News Americas Now
Global - A Caribbean country will be in the spotlight Wednesday [October 14] at 9
Read more…Same old GOVERNMENT HUSTLE and once the money is dispensed you end up like PAN TRINBAGO and TUCO and CEPEP and TTFA and THE PAN TRINBAGO HEADQUARTERS and PETROTRIN and ON AND ON.
The people in TRINIDAD who CONTROL THE CULTURAL DOLLARS do not have a
Read more…Personally, I consider ACTION IS TIGHT to be the FIRST SOCA SONG RECORDED. At the time that I asked ROSE to autograph THIS ALBUM she told me that it was worth $100 -- way back in 1993. But I think that it is worth a SPOT in a CALYPSO MUSEUM!!!
It looks like a BIDEN-HARRIS tsunami with this MASSIVE VOTER TURNOUT. But the senate races could give some voters a heart attack. Can the DEMOCRATS flip FOUR SEATS? A BIDEN-HARRIS win without control of THE SENATE is WINDOW-DRESSING POLITICS.
But DO
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The Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA), organizer
NEAR FINAL DRAFT CREATIVE SECTOR BUDGET 2021
Wednesday 23rd September 2020
PREAMBLE
The COVID pandemic has transformed the world and economies overnight, shutting down economic activity and changing the way human beings relate on a fundamental level
An official funeral will be accorded to Sir Rupert ‘King Swallow’ Philo.
On Saturday Prime Minister Gaston Browne made the announcement regarding the official funeral, as he paid tribute to the late musician.
“Let me make it abundantly clear that S
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Global - The first concerto ever written for steelpan and orchestra was written by Dr. Jan Bach.
Jan (Morris) Bach, 82, composer, educator, French Hornist, pianist, cartoonist
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You can’t stop the music! Education Africa is forging ahead with its International Marimba and Steelpan Festival, but for the first time in a virtual format. Schools, universities colleges and institutions with Marimba and Steelpanbands from
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Newsday October 31st, 2020
"A recent article in Forbes magazine espoused the virtues of the humble dasheen bush, more favourably known as callaloo bush. Of course, here in TT callaloo has first place on our Sunday lunch tables along with dishes the
Read more…I got the impression that with or without the $500,000,000 allocation to THE ARTS from the NEW BUDGET -- this production was in FULL SWING ...
The 2021 Virtual Carnival is On
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CBS
It all started with an adrenaline-pumping zip line over the turquoise waters of Macqueripe Bay back in 2018. Now two years later, the world is getting another chance to see T&T's cultural and environmental splendour on CBS's reality game show,
