New home for Desperadoes
Steelbands are already in competition mode for the 2016 Panorama competition with most bands already selecting their tune of choice. Some bands are also located at new venues, including Desperadoes,...
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Pan Movie Goes World Wide
Since its historical premiere in September 2014 at the T&T Film Festival at the Globe Cinema, Port-of-Spain, PAN! Our Music Odyssey has been screened over 25 times. Screening locations include...
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Denyse Plummer tells of her crossover: From revelry to righteousness
Former National Calypso Monarch Denyse Plummer launched her autobiographical book, The Crossover at The Normandie in St Ann’s on Friday.Summarised with the phrase “from revelry to righteousness,” the...
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Designer Delia Alleyne pops up at the Shop
Delia Alleyne was one of the first graduates of the University of T&T’s now seven-year-old fashion school. A first of its kind in the region, the school now churns out on average 37 graduates a...
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Called to the religious life
Sister Annetta Alexander is a nun with the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny, whose headquarters are at The Provincialate at St Joseph’s Convent in Port-of-Spain. She has been the Provincial Leader since...
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Rapturous reception for Ramesar’s Haiti Bride
Caribbeing filmmaker Yao Ramesar’s latest feature Haiti Bride, shot in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, premiered at the fourth Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last Wednesday night,...
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Wine for Christmas
“One Christmas Eve day, when I was just ten years old, I came home from flying my kite outside, and I saw the wine my mother had just finished bottling, and I poured a quarter glass into a tumbler, and...
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Mind the screens
There is an understandable tension between the need to have children engage with the world and to manage their relationship with it through screens of varying sizes. When I was a child, screens were a...
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Just do it
One more! It was intimidating but I would try. In the back of my mind I knew that if something went wrong I could get seriously hurt, but something in me recognised that I risked everything by not...
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Lynchpin on a mission
Lynchpin (aka LYNCHPiN) is on a mission. The mission is to get to Germany, specifically the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The reason? To participate and perform in...
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Not everyone enjoys Christmas
I am writing this feature on the Sunday before Christmas and thinking it should be something in keeping with the season. Maybe one of those goodwill messages about peace on earth and so on, but I am...
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All I want for Christmas is...
Tomorrow, Christians celebrate the religious festival of Christmas, the symbolic birthday of Jesus of Nazareth. Many believe Jesus was an expression of God in human form (some Hindus see him as an...
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Creolising de Christmas
Christ Mas in San CristobelOn this Eve of Carnival Christ mas,Old Ras Lazarusglides the street by Basseterre’s bumpin bus terminal,guided by his gnarled anointed staff. The bay bathed in starsanswers...
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Alta students reflect and write
Here are some more testimonials form Alta students as they reflect on how their time with Alta has enriched their lives. One day I was sitting in my living room when I saw the ad on Alta class on the...
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Looking at the sexual spectrum
BOOK INFOThe Sexual SpectrumOlive Skene JohnsonPacific Place Publishing, 2012ASIN: B007N9Q3KC; 278 pagesReview by Kevin BaldeosinghAlthough first published in paperback more than eight years ago, this...
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Films to fall asleep to
Christmas tradition in Britain means stuffing your face with so much food and booze that you fall asleep in front of the telly during the Queen's speech and snore your way through the Christmas movies...
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Christmas traditions and memories
Nyerere HaynesChristmas is just once a year but the memories created during the period can last a lifetime. For most Trinidadians it’s a time when presents, parang, family, friends and food converge....
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Forget next year; Carnival 2016 will be up and running from tomorrow, at 4 pm, with the season’s first “big fete.” D Cocoa Crew and Paprazzi Carnival are holding Switch—Start D Bacchanal Cooler Fete at...
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Of Cazabon, Maslow and cultural heritage
An essay by Marsha Pearce“Much of the visual treasures of the region lies outside of the Caribbean,” writes Patricia Mohammed in her book Imaging the Caribbean. Her statement comes to mind in the wake...
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Chosen Few reps hope
Hip hop artists Krazy Kurtastrophy, Keno Nocturn, Jsmoke Da Warnin and Joe Black collaborated earlier this year on the reggae/hip hop single Chosen Few. It was produced by Rishi “Mo'Times Productions”...
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