CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT

First Peoples Renew Call For Greater Recognition Of Their History And Heritage

As Trinidad and Tobago observes Heritage Week, members of the First Peoples Community gathered at the Hyarima Monument on Wednesday for a traditional smoke ceremony honouring their ancestors and cultural heritage.

The occasion also provided an opportunity for the Chief of the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community, Ricardo Bharath Hernandez, to renew his call for greater national recognition of Indigenous history and its…

Mighty Sparrow, King of Calypso Music, Dead at 91

“He was an institution in the entertainment industry, well admired for his skill and finesse as a singer, songwriter and mentor,” daughter writes

Mighty Sparrow at New Orleans Jazz Festival in 1998.David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images

Mighty Sparrow, the undisputed king of calypso music who singlehandedly elevated one of the most intensely flavored genres of the Caribbean into an unprecedented level of artistry and global popularity, died on…

While the Irish were busy bottling that polite, velvety whiskey-cream dream, Baileys, island folks in Jamaica, Trinidad, Grenada and across the wider Caribbean looked at a bottle of bold Guinness Foreign Extra Stout and said, “Hold my rum.” They threw it in a blender with sweetened condensed milk, warm spices, and pure Caribbean chaos… and created a thick, beige, milkshake-meets-stout monster that’ll make you strong as a bull - or so my grandmother told me - your knees weak and your…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Voted Monday To DIssolve Itself.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the independent nonprofit organization that distributed federal funds to PBS, NPR, public media programming and more than 1,500 public media stations across the country for nearly 60 years, voted Monday to dissolve itself.

The board’s vote in the new year came after Congress voted last summer, at the Trump administration’s request, to defund the corporation and claw back about…

About Winifred Atwell

As a young woman Atwell worked in her father’s chemist shop, and he insisted that she took a degree in pharmacy. However, in her spare time she entertained friends and continued to take part in charity concerts.

After performing in Trinidad’s Services Club during World War II, Atwell went to New York to study piano technique with the celebrated classical pianist Alexander Borovsky. In 1946 she went to Britain, determined to become a concert pianist, and studied at the…