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TT’s Kevin Adonis Browne wins OCM Bocas Prize
From NewsDay AN innovative hybrid book combining essays and memoir with photography has been named the winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture by Trinidadian writer and photographer…
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A love affair with film
From Newday tt ttff/18 showcases the best of TT, Caribbean Sprinter by Storm Saulter premieres on September 23, 8.30 pm, MovieTowne, Port of Spain THE 13th annual TT Film Festival (ttff) will have its gala opening this Tuesday with the…
Trinidad: Unions strike Friday
By Bert Wilkinson from Caribbean Life A little over a week after authorities in Trinidad announced the closure of an underutilized and money-losing oil refinery, major labor unions have called a general strike for Friday to pressure the administration to…
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Breaking ground, thinking big
By Marina Salandy-Brown From T&T Newsday “It takes a big mind, or at least a big world view, to write from a small space.” So writes Marlon James, the most celebrated writer in the history of Jamaica letters and the…
Black women at high risk for breast cancer
By JANELLE DE SOUZA From Newsday Trinidad & Tobago Black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than women of any other ethnic group. This according to Dr Phyllis Morgan, one of the co-ordinators for the family nurse…
UWI Prof: Be imitators of God
By Marlene Augustine From T&T NewsDay University of the West Indies History Professor Dr Jerome Teelucksingh yesterday called on citizens to be imitators of God and not prosecutors of the church. Teelucksingh was addressing the congregation at a service of,…
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FAME-Caribbean to help create business opportunities for artisans
By Sasha Harrinanan From Trinidad and Tobago NewsDay The Foundation for Fashion, Art, Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship and Export (FAME-Caribbean) has been established by Trinidad-born Savile Row master tailor, Andrew Ramroop, to help create sustainable business opportunities for artistic people across the…
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Calypso Rose welcomes government’s offer
From Newsday T&T “PUT my name on the plane,” McCartha “Calypso Rose” Lewis said yesterday after hearing about plans government has for her which include naming a Caribbean Airlines aircraft after her and providing her with a Diplomatic passport. In…
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Machel Montano seeking to overturn conviction
From Caribbean News Service PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 28 2017 – Soca star Machel Montano will return to court on April 26 as he seeks to overturn a conviction, on assault charges four years ago. Montano, along with songwriter Kernel Roberts,…
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Trinidad: Journalist Fined $20,000
From Caribbean News Service PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec 21 2016 – Magistrate Christine Charles has imposed a TT$20,000 fine on a newspaper journalist who pleaded guilty last week to unlawfully benefiting from a contract awarded to his company under…
