Two weeks before writing the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination, 12-year-old Keyona Alexander learned her father had been shot and killed.
Langston Roach Industries Ltd treated primary and secondary schools in the San Juan/St Ann's east area to a premium movie experience for the screening of the movie Black Panther II: Wakanda Forever MovieTowne, Port of Spain. Students were selected on a mixed criteria, including academic success MP for the area and Minister of Education Dr
Thatâs the very foundation of Los Alumnos de San Juan, says lead singer Alicia Jaggasar.
The 11-time National Parang Association of T&T (NPATT) best lead vocalist and queen of parang says when you strip away their pretty costumes, airtight harmonies and inventive instrumentation, her iconic band is at its core a charitable movement.
Jaggasar joined the then San Juan Secondary School band in 1987, less than a year after they first came together. Back then she recalls herself a young, dreamy-eyed music-lover obsessed with Latin music.
âI love Latin music, and parang is of course a form of Latin. Our main purpose back then was to go to the old folksâ home not far from the school,â Jaggasar recounted with an audible smile when asked by the Kitcharee on Friday afternoon to relive the bandâs formative years.