By Machela Osagboro
With the wave of innovative musical concerts being streamed online, there is a new take on the annual Panorama festivals in the form of a new competition being broadcast on Instagra
“We’re dropping like flies around here.” 82-year-old Des is isolating after Covid-19 killed several of his friends. This is how he is coping with the lockdown.
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Antigua Observer
By Machela Osagboro
With the wave of innovative musical concerts being streamed online, there is a new take on the annual Panorama festivals in the form of a new competition being broadcast on Instagra
Guardian March 26, 2020
“He comes every year for Carnival,” a family friend said Thursday.
In the weeks leading up to Carnival, the man had been socialising and attending public events.
“For all of February he was fine but one of his close relatives
Read more…By now everybody forget that BEVERLEY RAMSEY-MOORE promised to be THE MINISTER OF HEALTH and the MINISTER OF TOURISM and the MINISTER of EDUCATION and THE MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT all wrapped up in her role of PRESIDENT OF PAN TRINBAGO overseei
Read more…Bugs: How much OUR FATHERS and HAIL MARYS yuh want meh to say?
Read more…• From midnight on Sunday March 29th 2020 Trinidad and Tobago will deepen separation by having all non-essential activities forbidden.
• The National Security Minister and the Health Minister will advise the country on a list of non-essential activit
Read more…Onaje Allan Gumbs, a pianist-composer whose firm foundation in hard bop supported an expansive career in pop-R&B and smooth jazz, died on Monday
POLITICO April 28, 2020
“If [Biden] got somebody black or brown, I'm happy, I'm in heaven, but I want to win,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) “And if Mary Lou, who lives in Pennsylvania, can help him win, I don't care what color she might be.”
“W
Read more…VOX April 17, 2020
"It has been clear for some time that the coronavirus pandemic is killing black and Latino Americans at disproportionately high rates, but new data from the last few days reveals just how devastating the Covid-19 crisis has been f
Read more…Guardian April 4, 2020
[NOT BROOKLYN, NEW YORK!!! BROOKLYN SETTLEMENT, SANGRE GRANDE!!!]
"Government's intention to transfer 29 recovering COVID-19 patients from the Couva Hospital to a building in the quiet community of Brooklyn Settlement, Sangre
Read more…Guardian March 29, 2020
Staff at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre in St Ann’s have been temporarily laid off with no pay effective April 1 as the closure of borders in light of COVID-19 pandemic has hit the hotel industry.
A letter dated Mar
Read more…ALINA DOODNATH - Loop Magazine
Soca music is so infectious, even fans in the chilly city of Helsinki, Finland have joined Mr Killa's call to ‘run with it’.
A group of Finnish DJs and music lovers have begun hosting soca parties which have found a ni
Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic.
London Breed wasn’t going to wait around for COVID-19.
San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case of the c
Read more…It is easy to make an IMPULSIVE DECISION (in this time of FINANCIAL CRISIS) and agree with your LENDER to let you hold on to your $2000 monthly payment for THREE MONTHS ($6,000) without LATE PAYMENTS or DEROGATORY REMARKS on your CREDIT REPORT.
But b
Read more…Guardian March 29, 2020
Cabinet and the Minister of Health were advised of the possible spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) back in January.
In fact, it was Cabinet that advised President Paula-Mae Weekes to issue a proclamation about the exis
Read more…Guardian March 28, 2020
"The US Embassy in Port-of-Spain is advising Americans living in Trinidad and Tobago who wish to return to the US that it had organised a private charter flight scheduled to depart Port-of-Spain for Miami on April 1 at noon."
Guardian EDITORIAL May 12, 2020
"Putting aside all comments about how many tests we are doing in T&T, just over two thousand now, one of the lowest in the world, and that apparently includes 652 community tests in the past two weeks, all negative, a
Read more…MyNorth
For decades this incredible teacher has inspired Petoskey High School musicians and brought joy to the Up North community—and beyond.
Featured in MyNorth Inspired Life. Read the full magazine here.
If you’ve heard the popping Caribbean sou
So far the MINISTRY has tested about 688 people in the past month -- 97 have come up positive with 6 DEATHS.
But there are about 2,000 who have been exposed to the VIRUS -- that they KNOW ABOUT. Just imagine what THEY DO NOT KNOW ABOUT from COMMUNITY
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