The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.
After two and ah half years of Sabbatical without any renumeration, com-pen-say-shun,remittance, subsistence or whatever to de components of Vincy Mas, de Festival, or what’s left of it, will now attempt to shake off de ashes, fine tune de instruments, restore Pan after de Pan-dem-ache; revisit Carlton “CP” Hall’s masterpiece “Kaisonians will sing,” and ‘come hell or high water’, Vin-sin-shuns will play Mas wid or wid-out wearing Mas, Jab or …
Dis week ah revisiting an article ah wrote in June of 2018 about an unsung Hero named Frank Laborde. Ah very quiet, humble and approachable man. Oh how he loved his privacy. But when Paddy Corea, ah Pan-ah-maniac mentioned his name and told me dat Frank was a Legend of Pan and don’t let him escape, ah went chasing him. Wid ah great deal of sweet-talk, ah finally got Mr …