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Renegades Youths create steelband history
Members of bpTT Renegades Youth Steel Orchestra (RYSO) made history last Sunday (February 19) when they won the Junior Panorama Final contest in the Elite category with a rendition of Calypso Rose’s...
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Enjoy Carnival to the full extreme
It has arrived; Carnival weekend.Champions will soon be crowned in soca, pan and calypso, with the staging of the finals of the International Soca Monarch (ISM) tonight at Hasely Crawford Stadium, the...
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The night of the Soca Monarch
One of the pieces in the Carnival tableau will fall into place tonight, Fantastic Friday, when this year’s International Soca Monarch is crowned at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.Defending champion Aaron...
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Amid swirling words, moments of great beauty
It’s my first time to a 3Canal show, but not my first time intersecting with the trio of Wendell Manwarren, Roger Roberts and Stanton Kewley either as performers or subjects of photographic...
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The legend of the La Diablesse
The tale of the La Diablesse originated on the island of Martinique more than three hundred years ago. One has to understand the demonising of the personalities even then and how women were viewed in...
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A spectacular reinvention
A review by Lisa Allen-Agostini Carnival Medea: A Bacchanal, is a colourful epic that lends itself to different interpretations. As it’s based on Euripedes’ ancient Greek tragedy Medea, you could look...
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Twenty years of Blue
A review by Shivanee RamlochanRapso collective 3canal—Wendell Manwarren, Roger Roberts, and Stanton Kewley—have claimed the self-devouring snake as a central jewel in the glittering diadem of their...
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Right Away Couriers takes professionalism seriously
Right Away Couriers, founded by Sean McPhee, is a courier service specializing in providing speedy delivery around the clock, with a commitment to accuracy and reliability.McPhee stood before the panel...
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okafit partners with bmobile for Tobago Community Burn
The Sokafit Team rolled into Tobago for a second time and this time touching two communities on the weekend visit – Plymouth and Roxborough.Sokafit Co-Director Lisa Wickham, remarked that the Tobago...
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Schools, organisations to benefit from Climate Talk
The German Embassy Port-of-Spain has partnered with IAMovement to take Climate Talk through the rest of the year from April to December.A release said the partnership will include:• Climate Talk in 25...
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RBC funds cancer treatment
In recognition of World Cancer Day (February 4), RBC Royal Bank announced that funds from the RBC Caribbean Children’s Cancer Fund will be utilised to purchase a Flow Cytometer, which will be donated...
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A tabanca of potential
The technician leaned conspiratorially across the counter at Marty Forscher’s repair store. “Were you deployed to Afghanistan?”Um. What? It turned out that the only other times they had taken apart...
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Powerful messages in song
Sunday night’s Dimanche Gras show went swimmingly well for the first half, despite a slightly late start.The flow of Calypso Monarch contenders went smoothly, with some very riveting, if relentlessly...
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Forty Days: A human cycle of change?
There is a common misconception that Ash Wednesday was introduced as a way to atone for the extreme frolicking of the Carnival season. However, Father Matthew D’Hereaux puts this myth to rest when he...
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Competition hurting culture?
Last week, Fantastic Friday marked the countdown to the big Carnival weekend as final competitions got under way—International Soca Monarch (ISM) on Friday night, Panorama finals on Saturday night and...
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The economics of the drug trade
Nearly every book about the drug trade suffers from one fundamental flaw: guesstimates about the financial and other figures related to drug trafficking. This is so even when academics pretend they are...
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The Girl in the Cupboard
Author Cheryl Ann Gajadhar is unlikely to win any literary awards for her first self-published work, but The Girl in the Cupboard has a straight-up, engaging honesty about it that promises to win the...
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Student tells literacy journey
Today we have a short piece from Lauren, one of our Level 2 students at our Harvard Club, St James venue. ALTA students placed in Level 2 students can read and write, but slowly and often haltingly....
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Carnival veteran Dick ‘D Juiceman’ Lochan dies
Toronto-based cultural ambassador Dick Lochan sadly passed away on January 12 after suffering the effects of a brief illness. Dick was originally from San Fernando, Trinidad, but migrated to Toronto,...
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No Champs in Concert
Created in 1980 by Pan Trinbago, the post-Carnival Champs in Concert, staged annually at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, will not be held this year. At last Saturday’s National Panorama...
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