Global - The term “icon” is tossed around much too loosely in our culture. Happily, it was not wasted on Joey Lewis, a giant of a musical presence not only in his native Trinidad and Tobago, but throughout the Eastern Caribbean, ever since he became
THE EDITOR: No entity should be permitted to evade public scrutiny and accountability, especially those that function using the people’s hard-earned money.
For Panorama 2016, Pan Trinbago received a $34 million free subsidy
Trinidad and Tobago’s biggest annual festival, Carnival, calls to me in a way that nothing else in my life ever has. As an Afro-Caribbean Black woman who immigrated to America when I was just 4, visits to my homeland feed my soul and put me in touch
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -After a 16-year wait and with a new arranger leading them, Desperadoes Steel Orchestra at 2.55 a.m. yesterday captured their 11th National Panorama Championship (Large Conventional Band category).
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - STEELBAND instruments are one of several items which will not be subject to the revised Value Added Tax (VAT) regime. This was revealed in a special notice published by the Finance Ministry in the name of Finance Minister Co
Purpose: To encourage, promote and reward the highest level of percussion education and musical excellence among high school and collegiate non-Western percussion-based performing ensembl
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. -Three steel pan musicians have helped a small-town steel orchestra in Trinidad defy the odds and take second place in the 2016 Panorama Competitions on Saturday night.
MJ Byron, Omandy Byron and Kazrano Gumbs played with
I stopped frequenting this board a year ago in protest of the unfettered, ugly pettiness and hatred spewed out to my band Trinidad All Stars because of our hard work and focus over the years, but I must break my boycott to congratulate Desperadoes on