Tobago Jazz Festival 2016!
GeeStor Productions are pleased to annonce their latest venture! A fabulous 10 NIGHT TRIP to Tobago’s Jazz Festival 2016 hosted by MTV’s Kat B and the legendary Lewis ‘Mastermind’ Benn! Tobago is one the Caribbean’s most beautiful and unspoilt destinations, 30 miles at its longest point with a population of just 50,000. Beautiful coconut palm fringed white sandy […]
Celebrating the Power and Legacy of Claudia Jones
Claudia at 100: Power, Beauty, Resilience and Legacy Saturday 22 August, 12.30pm – 4.30pm As part of this year’s Carnival Season we take a look at the founder of the West Indian Gazette, social justice activist, political campaigner and feminist Claudia Jones. This study day is a chance to look back at the prolific life and legacy of […]
Sargassum seaweed threatens Barbados
News items from The Nation Barbados. Sir Hilary Beckles says regional economies are under threat from sargassum seaweed. A government minister believes raising the retirement age next year could spell trouble. Barbados win the Regional Women’s Super50 Cricket title. 0 0
Antigua Ambassador calls for Cuba to return to OAS
Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Sir Ronald Sanders today called for Cuba to “take its rightful seat in the Councils of the Organization” and said his country would do all in its power to encourage Cuba to do so. The Antigua and Barbuda diplomat was delivering his inaugural statement […]
Cultural meaning has been stripped from Canada’s Caribana
“To assemble hundreds of thousands of Caribbeanites and give them nothing more than the bacchanalian side of the culture — in a festival that brings in SO much money, very little of which accrues to blacks and West Indians — indicates a truncated vision and skewed sense of cultural politics.” -Clifton Joseph, 1989 The Caribana […]
Classic Trinidadian novel coming to big screen
Film chosen as official selection in inaugural Caribbean Film Mart Port of Spain, August 6th 2015 – Green Days by the River, the seminal novel by celebrated Trinidadian author Michael Anthony, is being brought to life as a feature film. This will mark the first time international audiences will see the work of the esteemed […]
OK Class Worlds heads to Barbados in 2017
BRIDGETOWN – Barbados has won the bid over Germany for the right to host one of the world’s leading yachting events in 2017. -The OK Class Worlds travels to various destinations around the world each year, as most of the yachting classes do, and it is expected that this event will attract 100 of the […]
Caribbean Airlines to axe London to Trinidad route
After 3 years of struggle, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has finally decided to abort the London in 2016. In spite of local Trinidadian politician, Dr Rowley not being in favour of CAL’s route expansion to London from Day 1. He stated the following in 2012: “This is an ill-conceived expansion and it has no sustainable future, […]
Nigerian students in Barbados finally on way home
ARRANGEMENTS ?ARE BEING MADE by the Nigerian Government to return the 120 Nigerian students in Barbados and Trinidad to their homeland. Words such as “abandoned” and “stranded” were used by Nigeria media outlets last week to describe the situation of the students who arrived in Trinidad last September and in Barbados last December, to undergo […]
Antigua Ambassador calls for strengthening of OAS
Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the Organization of American states, Sir Ronald Sanders, told high ranking representatives of Western Hemisphere governments that they have to strengthen the Organization to make it relevant and meaningful. Sanders made the remarks as he presented credentials to Secretary-General Luis Almargo Lemes at the OAS Headquarters in Washington on August […]