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Executive director of Cancer Support Services Jan Linton (left) receiving a donation from director of Massy Foundation David Neilands. (Picture by Shanice King.) Social Share
More Barbadians should assist individuals who are living with non communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health challenges, says director of Massy Foundation David Neilands.
He made that suggestion on Thursday during the presentation of a $30 360 cheque to Cancer Support Services at Dayrells Road, Christ Church.
During the presentation, Neilands congratulated Cancer Support Services on their 25 years of service and commended the charity for continuing to work despite the negative effects of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Trinidad and Tobago poet Desiree Seebaran has won the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), the region’s only prize for emerging writers.
In the third and final year of the Prize, dedicated to the advancement of new Caribbean voices, Seebaran won out over the other two shortlisted poets, Akhim Alexis and Jay T. John. All three are Trinbagonians.
The prize offers an opportunity to advance a current work in progress.
In the official announcement during the Winners’ Row event at the 2021 NGC Bocas Lit Fest on Saturday, April 24 Seebaran was announced the winner of the JAAWP by Chief Judge Funso Aiyejina.
AS the NGC Bocas Lit Fest rolls out a second year of an all-virtual festival, from April 23-25, young ones can look forward to dynamic and engaging online content on two days of the festival.
The children’s sessions will come alive in myriad exciting ways for a fresh crop of young readers and writers as it features some of the best storytellers, local talent, and stories written by children during the past ten years of the NGC Children’s Storytelling Caravan.
While the pandemic has paused the traditional caravan that toured communities across the country, actors and technical producers have translated the caravan’s published tales into animations, dramatisations and learning content, to be shown on the Saturday and Sunday mornings of the Bocas Lit Fest’s 11th annual festival, the largest literary festival in the Caribbean, said a media release from the festival.
Children’s stories come alive at Bocas Lit Fest
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New stories in the Dragonzilla’s Storytime series premiere during the 2021 NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest. Actor Farouk Jr brings The Mystery of the Seaweed to life. -
AS the NGC Bocas Lit Fest rolls out a second year of an all-virtual festival, from April 23-25, young ones can look forward to dynamic and engaging online content on two days of the festival.
The children’s sessions will come alive in myriad exciting ways for a fresh crop of young readers and writers as it features some of the best storytellers, local talent, and stories written by children during the past ten years of the NGC Children’s Storytelling Caravan.
Out of the ashes
Artist Jackie Hinkson keeps a clean scene at his outdoor Carnival-themed exhibition. -
Carnival 2021 was cancelled, but in many ways it was a wonderful Carnival. Necessity is the mother of invention, truly, and those whose livelihoods rely upon it and those whose sanity depends upon it found creative and innovative ways to make Carnival happen. Congratulations to them for finding the crease, Kees, Farmer Nappy, Yuma and many more, all over the country.
The deterioration of the official annual Carnival has been long evident to everyone who is not a masquerader. The idea of “Carnival as spectacle” died some time ago. There is very little to engage the bystander or the dwindling crowd sitting in the stands and even worse, those watching at home. As television standards plummeted, the costumes shrank and the glitter grew brighter, it became a source of depression to witness what had been lost. Apart from pan, even endlessly playing a single tune for weeks, the on