Thirty children from schools across TT competed on Saturday at the National Junior Calypso Monarch Competition and many of them sang about social issues that are plaguing TT – crime, negligence, the education system and anti-violence while some performed covers of songs by the calypso legends. The contestants sang before five judges and fewer than
TOBAGO’S two large conventional steelbands – NLCB Buccooneers and RBC Redemption Soundsetters – have made it to the semi-finals of the national Panorama competition.
Dr Rita Pemberton The contrasting attitudes of plantation owners and the freed African population to the implementation of the law that terminated enslavement in the British Caribbean possessions in 1838, set the stage for ongoing tension and conflict in post emancipation Caribbean. While plantation owners received a compensation package of a £20 million grant for
TSTT CEO Lisa Agard has announced that the company recently approved an investment of more than $120 million for an accelerated deployment of fibre infrastructure over the next 18 months, throughout Trinidad and Tobago. She made the announcement in an address on Monday shortly before presenting a state-of-the-art Huawei IdeaHub to the Speyside Secondary School,