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• FROM THE ARCHIVES: Major L. Earle Johnson – Nation Builder 25 May 2020 21:00 Dominica News Online Major L. Earle Johnson“We are surrounded by unlimited opportunities for self-education. The real challenge is our personal response to this exposure, and our passion to get ahead in life” Retool or Rust (2007, by Dr. L. Earle Johnson) Major L. Earle …
• Noble: Writers must read too; why Baldeosingh misunderstands Black Power movement 08 May 2020 02:44 Wired 868 Stephen King, the famed writer, once said: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others, read a lot and write a lot.” It is a pity that several in our community do the second and not the first. But beyond that, book publishing has a …
• Notting Hill Carnival is cancelled but organisers promise 'celebration of Carnival culture and arts' 07 May 2020 13:27 Daily Mail Notting Hill Carnival is cancelled but organisers still promise 'celebration of Carnival culture and arts' for August bank holiday weekend By James Robinson for MailOnline Published: 08:52 EDT, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 09:21 EDT, 7 May 2020 The …
• Antigua shines in panograma competition 06 May 2020 20:20 Daily Observer By Machela Osagboro Antigua’s own Amarni Gomes placed 9thin the first ever panograma event, which saw competitors from all over the region.  The winner of the event, Trinidadian pannist, Earl Brooks, topped the table with a performance of Michaels Jackson’ …
• Martin Douglas, Who Set Tone for Steel-Pan Brooklyn, Dies at 71 21 Apr 2020 21:15 The New York Times This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. On summer nights in central Brooklyn, the roar of traffic gives way to the twinkle of steel-pan drums as musicians of all ages rehearse, …
• ‘T&T still mecca for pan’; Author Kim Johnson campaigns to reprint work on steelpan 02 Apr 2020 01:36 Wired 868 Author Kim Johnson is on a mission to reprint his 2011 work, The Illustrated Story of Pan. Drawn from more than 600 interviews with pan pioneers, and filled with historical photos, the book documents the history of the steelband movement. Wired868 spoke …
• Trinidad’s first COVID-19 victim loved the Carnival 27 Mar 2020 09:06 Stabroek News (Trinidad Express) The first COVID-19 victim to die in Trinidad and Tobago was Hansel “Hanny” Leon, a man who loved Carnival and well known for “beating the iron”. Tributes have begun to flow for 77-year-old Leon who died Wednesday at the Couva Hospital. A …
• CubaDupa Announces Full Festival Lineup of 1500 Performers 11 Mar 2020 03:41 Scoop Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 3:59 pm Press Release: CubaDupa New CubaDupa App, Visual Arts Elements, and Accessibility Initiatives WELLINGTON, NZ — Aotearoa’s most vibrant and creative free festival hits the streets of Wellington on 28 and 29 March—and has …
• Pan as icon: preserving, claiming, marketing (Part II) 07 Mar 2020 10:33 Daily Observer (An address to the CARIFESTA V SYMPOSIUM, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago/August 1992) By Dorbrene O’Marde And then this final word, ‘marketing.’ It is a word that I am scared of, especially when loosely bandied around culture and the arts. It is …
• Pan as icon: preserving, claiming, marketing (Part I) 06 Mar 2020 10:05 Daily Observer (An address to the CARIFESTA V SYMPOSIUM, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago / August 1992) By Dorbrene O’Marde Before adding my contributions to this discussion on ‘Pan as Icon – preserving, claiming, marketing,’ let me be quick to acknowledge my …
• RHTYSC Cricket Teams, Guyana Beverage Co. hosts successful Say Yes/ Say No Parade 25 Feb 2020 05:44 Kaieteur News Feb 25, 2020 Sports 0 Hundreds of students drawn from six schools along with the cricketers of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS on Republic Day participated in a massive Chubby Children Mash Parade along the Lower Corentyne Highway. The Mash …
• Trinidad & Tobago Carnival's steel pan competition in photos 19 Feb 2020 14:54 globalvoicesonline.org Renegades Steel Orchestra on stage at the National Panorama Semi-Finals in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on February 9, 2020. Photo by Maria Nunes, used with permission. One of the highlights of Trinidad and Tobago's annual Carnival celebrations is the …
• Daly Bread: Prime bands in prime time; we may be at a new beginning in pan 16 Feb 2020 19:15 Wired 868 Everything is set for a thrilling indigenous musical contest at next Saturday’s Panorama Finals and I open this column with an appeal to anyone who loves pan and our country’s youth to put aside their bad experiences with previous ridiculously lengthy …
• RHTYSC, MS Cricket teams and Guyana Beverage Co. launch Mash Children’s Parade 12 Feb 2020 14:59 Kaieteur News Feb 12, 2020 Sports 0 The cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS on the 23rd of February would take their highly successful Say No/ Say Yes Campaign to a higher level when they host a 500 person children Mash Parade as part of …
• Media Monitor: customer satisfaction and reporter work ethic clash on CCN and TTT 10 Feb 2020 00:48 Wired 868 Ahahn! At last! It only take about 70 years. Too late fuh Blakie buh not fuh we! And de timing perfick; it only have a week or two to go before dis year Carnaval. (Big band music blassing. De tune is a famous 1954 classic by de now dead kaisonian with de …
• Daly bread: Trying a new direction; will Panorama lead by example? 09 Feb 2020 16:44 Wired 868 I do not need someone from foreign to tell me that gangsters are fully in charge in many communities, and I dun know that the politicians look the other way and frequently consort with them. It is a reprehensible failure on the part of the elites and …
• Grenadian couple celebrates 60 years of marriage 28 Jan 2020 01:35 Now Grenada by Curlan Campbell, NOW Grenada Phillip and Bernadette Johnson celebrate diamond wedding anniversary Secret to successful marriage: Confidence in each other’s love The sanctity of marriage has certainly lost some of its significance in today’s society but …
• Team Arsenal captures top prize at first-ever 303 Wahoo Challenge 25 Jan 2020 03:21 San Pedro Sun The Dive Bar north of San Pedro Town held its first fishing tournament, dubbed ‘303 Wahoo Challenge 2020’ from Friday the 17th to the 19th of January. The fishing tournament saw 17 teams set out to sea in hopes of landing the winning fish and capture the …
• BCB hosts emotional Evening of Reflection for Basil Butcher 22 Jan 2020 07:10 Guyana Chronicle … Foster pledges to continue tradition of excellence in legend’s memory. THE Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) last Thursday and Friday paid emotional tributes to the late Basil Fitzherbert Butcher, AA, as his ashes were interred at the St Joseph Anglican Church …
• GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…She stares from the window 13 Jan 2020 06:11 Kaieteur News Jan 13, 2020 News 0 By Michael Jordan The area where the brothels were located seemed to hold a darkness of its own, despite the presence of the same intermittent streetlights that were characteristic of Georgetown. It was the same with the street where he …
• Windrush war hero who smuggled The Beatles George Harrison into Hamburg 27 Dec 2019 13:42 Liverpool Echo In 1948 the HMT Windrush arrived in Britain carrying people from the Caribbean. They had been invited by the government to fill the skills and labour shortage in the aftermath of WW2, leaving behind livelihoods, families and friends to travel across the …
• Trinidad: San Fernando to get female Mayor 10 Dec 2019 18:06 Stabroek News (Trinidad Express) San Fernando is expected to get a new mayor when the City Corporation meets on Thursday. Sources have indicated that Solange De Souza-Ransome, an attorney, is tipped to get the nod for the top post in the San Fernando Corporation. De …
• Literary Festival coming – its here 17 Nov 2019 07:05 Montserrat Reporter Posted on 15 November 2019. by Cathy Buffonge Brades – Nov 2, 2019 – Montserrat’s Alliouagana Festival of the Word is just around the corner, and all are encouraged to check it out. The Festival will run from Thursday, November 14 to Sunday, November 17, …
• Dear Editor: Phase Two steals Big Five night; should we add a Lil One for the foreigners? 30 Oct 2019 09:03 Wired 868 The following letter, designed to ‘offer a few thoughts on the recent Big Five pan concert, staged at the Queen’s Park Savannah last Saturday evening’, was submitted to Wired868 by Earl Best, who asked that we stress that pan music is emphatically NOT one …
• UM students take on Miami Carnival 2019 17 Oct 2019 19:55 Hurricane Mirza Tanis, 22, shows off her Haitian flag and costume at Miami Carnival. Photo credit: Jayda Graham Miami Carnival is a festive, week-long celebration that highlights Caribbean culture through a series of events, such as J’Ouvert, the Steelband Panorama …
• One of the masters 06 Oct 2019 08:00 Stabroek News It could well be that my time as a musician has left me prejudiced, but I have long felt that there are striking examples of creative genius about in the musical world that we glide by without noticing or appreciating what is sitting right there before us …
• Altamont Court founder gets emotional farewell 24 Sep 2019 11:52 Jamaica Observer FAMILY members, loved ones and well-wishers on Saturday bade farewell to Terence “Terry” Jarrett, founder of the Altamont Court Hotel, at an emotional funeral service Saturday at Stella Maris Catholic Church in St Andrew. Jarrett died at age 81 after a …
• Daly Bread: On the bright side: gleaning hope from the steelband movement 08 Sep 2019 17:45 Wired 868 When our politicians fail us, rather than responding on the issues, they commonly pursue attacks on critics and angry dismissals of so-called negativity. They are however so blinded by their own rhetoric and the flattery of their satellites that they do …
• Daly Bread: The acclamation of words; why we don’t need foreign experts to fight crime 02 Sep 2019 00:10 Wired 868 As violent crime continues to overwhelm us, I noted last week the prime minister’s apparent adoption of the concept of violence as ‘a public health issue’ and his intention (unnecessarily as we shall see) to seek the assistance of a foreign expert on the …
• Notting Hill carnival can unite divided country, organisers say 24 Aug 2019 06:51 The Guardian The Notting Hill carnival is the ideal way to bring together a divided country and remember those who have been caught up in the Windrush scandal, its organisers have said. Matthew Phillip, the carnival’s executive director, said the event – which takes …
• ‘Pan and Powder’ fills ‘Trini’ streets 23 Aug 2019 08:22 Guyana Chronicle – Guyana’s National Steel Orchestra stuns crowd THE street steelpan parade dubbed “Pan and Powder” filled the streets of Trinidad on Wednesday night as thousands enjoyed Trinidad’s national instrument. The front row of players of the National Steel …
• Daly Bread: From Bolsonaro to Griffith, are we tackling crime from the wrong end? 12 Aug 2019 00:54 Wired 868 Approximately one year ago, shortly after his appointment, Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith likened the criminal elements to ‘cockroaches’ and added that those cockroaches should be ‘crushed’. The Commissioner has company. The following report …
• The Traceys- An intergenerational story of African music In Africa 01 Aug 2019 08:30 Africa News There are striking parallels between Hugh and Andrew’s work and that of the Lomax family in the US. John Lomax was an ethnomusicologist who did numerous field recordings of blues, cowboy, folk and chain-gang music. John and his son Alan began recording in …