- 1 April, 2025
VYBZ KARTEL RETURNS TO GUYANA
THIRTEEN years after he vowed not to return to Guyana, dancehall star Vybz Kartel has announced he will perform in the country in 2025.
In a social media post, the Jamaican entertainer said: “Guyana, next year, a blood – at trouble.
PASSING OF A CARIBBEAN STORYTELLER
FOR a generation, Dave Martins portrayed Caribbean society like few others.
Martins was a regionalist, a storyteller, and a musical commentator on our heritage and identity.
VYBZ KARTEL’S ‘INHUMANE’ PRISON CONDITIONS
VYBZ Kartel, the hugely popular and prolific Jamaican dancehall singer, endured a tough prison life since his 2011 jailing.
JULY, THE COOLIE WOMAN AND INDENTURESHIP
JULY is a historic month in the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
PAN HONOURED 94 YEARS AFTER INVENTION
SENIOR Government officials gloated last week over the passage of a law that names the steelband as the national instrument – 94 years after its invention.
RICH MAN, POOR PAN
IN this November 2000 picture are then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and Pan Trinbago President Patrick Arnold at a function for the granting of State land for a steelband head office and performance theatre.
ROWLEY GIVES AWAY NATIONAL PRIDE
THE Government is giving foreigners a prized eight-acre parcel of land that was earmarked as the showpiece of an exciting fresh vision for steelband, the national instrument.
THE REAL GYPSY ISSUE
THE relevant Gypsy issue is not whether he should participate in the calypso monarch contest.
That should be obvious to everyone, including those feeding at the NCC trough and sermonising on social media.
MACHEL, WODEMAYA AND HASELY
IN a land of declining educational standards, Machel “Mr. Fete” Montano has set a positive tone in skipping Carnival 2024 to focus on his studies.
SUNITY JUMPING UP IN STEELBAND
THE steelband was invented in the 1930s and is a product of Trinidad and Tobago ingenuity.
