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VYBZ KARTEL RETURNS TO GUYANAVYBZ KARTEL RETURNS TO GUYANA

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…

7 months ago
PASSING OF A CARIBBEAN STORYTELLERPASSING OF A CARIBBEAN STORYTELLER

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…

8 months ago
VYBZ KARTEL’S ‘INHUMANE’ PRISON CONDITIONSVYBZ KARTEL’S ‘INHUMANE’ PRISON CONDITIONS

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.

8 months ago
JULY, THE COOLIE WOMAN AND INDENTURESHIPJULY, THE COOLIE WOMAN AND INDENTURESHIP

JULY, THE COOLIE WOMAN AND INDENTURESHIP

JULY is a historic month in the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

8 months ago
PAN HONOURED 94 YEARS AFTER INVENTIONPAN HONOURED 94 YEARS AFTER INVENTION

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…

9 months ago
RICH MAN, POOR PANRICH MAN, POOR PAN

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…

11 months ago
ROWLEY GIVES AWAY NATIONAL PRIDEROWLEY GIVES AWAY NATIONAL PRIDE

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…

11 months ago
THE REAL GYPSY ISSUETHE REAL GYPSY ISSUE

THE REAL GYPSY ISSUE

THE relevant Gypsy issue is not whether he should participate in the calypso monarch contest. That should be obvious to…

1 year ago
MACHEL, WODEMAYA AND HASELYMACHEL, WODEMAYA AND HASELY

MACHEL, WODEMAYA AND HASELY

IN a land of declining educational standards, Machel “Mr. Fete” Montano has set a positive tone in skipping Carnival 2024…

1 year ago
SUNITY JUMPING UP IN STEELBANDSUNITY JUMPING UP IN STEELBAND

SUNITY JUMPING UP IN STEELBAND

THE steelband was invented in the 1930s and is a product of Trinidad and Tobago ingenuity.

1 year ago