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Documentary discusses Rastafari issues, origins
Every day of the T&T Film Festival, T&T Guardian columnist and film writer, BC Pires, will be picking a Film of the Day. Pires has been writing about film from an informed lay perspective since...
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Young Invaders star gets taste of Britain
As pan goes everywhere, it continues to break new barriers and take new chances and offer young people unique opportunities. Luke Walker, 15, a youthful pan player from Invaders Steel Orchestra just...
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To live and die with my dignity
Dear Hon Terrence Deyalsingh, MP. Greetings. I am certain you have a colossal task before you as Minister of Health. I’m confident you’d do your best to impact significantly your wounded inheritance as...
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What music workers really want
This year has seen a number of high profile initiatives aimed at improving the capacity of T&T’s music industry and putting our music on the international scene. With the help of entities like...
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CAL Invaders shows the way forward for pan
As the legendary steel orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary, CAL Invaders deserves kudos for hosting an impressive week of celebrations, and especially for staging its symposium and...
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Baggasse brings local Cinderella spectacle to Queen’s Hall
The reviews are in: Cinderella left the audience enchanted.Cinderella, the Trinidad and Tobago Musical completed its run at Sapa last week to rave reviews. Now, the new local take on the classic...
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Digicel Foundation works on disaster preparedness
Digicel Foundation is working on a disaster preparedness intervention programme which it is calling: Preparing You! The programme is a disaster preparedness and emergency evacuation pilot project for...
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Film Festival pays tribute to visionary Jamaican artist
The T&T Film Festival’s New Media exhibit on the works of the late Peter Dean Rickards drew a large crowd of appreciative viewers not only from T&T but the Caribbean, especially his native...
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Modern phone etiquette
The convenience of cellphones has made it possible to talk to others anytime and anywhere, but there is still an art to using the phone properly in a professional setting. How many times has your...
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Wedding cake toppers
Humble wedding cake toppers began to make their first appearances as early as the 19th Century. During those times, they were handmade and simplistic, and were usually in the form of flowers. After...
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The Fire Walkers
On the lands of the old Peru estate (later known as St James), and in what was later to become Boissiere Village, Maraval, a number of Tamils from Kerala, in India, settled after indentureship in the...
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Kevin...a man of many talents
Kevin Thomas wears many hats. He’s a baker, a chef, a wedding co-ordinator and an events planner.From a distance he can tell that a napkin needs to be straightened. Thomas is a stickler for detail and...
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Tribute to a classical lover
A Night of Guitar, featuring five of T&T’s top classical guitarists, promises a new experience in the music scene in T&T. Classical and rock guitarist Francesco Emmanuel came up with the idea...
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A Trini Cinderella
The production of Cinderella: A T&T Musical by the newly-revived Bagasse Co promises a uniquely Trinidadian experience.Co-producer/director Aaron Schneider said, “It's the first Cinderella story...
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Filmmakers learn from experts at Immersion
As part of its focus on encouraging local talent, the T&T Film Festival (TTFF) hosted this year the fifth iteration of the RBC Focus: Filmmaker's Immersion. The workshop ran September 23–25. Of...
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An antidote to naïveté
Rhoda Bharath’s short fiction might be one of the best available antidotes to a tourist brochure. Handing out copies of her first collection, The Ten Days Executive (Peepal Tree Press, 2015) to...
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Artist explores 'Force Ripe' T&T
T&T artist Alex Kelly, a UWI graduate and part of the Granderson Lab initiative, recently participated in Caribbean Linked III, experiencing three weeks of connections, exchanges, and productivity...
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'Talent first: then marketing'
For more than 20 years, New-York based Alex Boicel has been a leading independent promoter of world music from Africa and the Caribbean through his company Afromondo Productions, founded in 1992. Born...
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The worst nightmare ever
You know how people have recurring night frights about planes crashing or being caught naked in public places? Not me. My bad dream is being trapped between rows and rows of Jimmy Choos or Diane von...
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Bazoodee: The ukulele gets the girl
So a rich Indian chick engaged to a studly, rich Briton of Indian descent throws it all way for a ukulele-wielding dreadlocked singer—and they sing and dance at Maracas happily ever after. Where but...
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