PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former government minister Jack Warner’s extradition proceedings took another turn when the U.S. government attempted to intervene in his judicial review lawsuit challenging Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s decision to sign off on its request to have him extradited to face charges in the ongoing FIFA bribery scandal. During a status […]
We must NOT agree that Carnival is debauched, or that it is going to die. Here is why: Who would have thought that we could devise a war, a stage, a gayelle, sans stick, sans knife, sans guns? Just sans humanite. A wargame of wit. Dramatic, feisty, enthralling, full of play, bringing the audience into […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Raymond Tim Kee is no longer mayor of Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city. A week after making controversial comments after the murder of a Japanese Asami Nagakiya, a pannist who visited the twin-island republic for Carnival, Tim Kee handed in the resignation he had announced over the weekend he would […]
He oozed love for country, be it politics, culture or servant leadership. The community’s beloved Selwyn Bartholomew Joseph – known as Selo – passed away peacefully at home on Feb. 5, surrounded by his loved ones. Born in Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 23, 1939, Joseph was the devoted husband of Suzanne Joseph for almost […]
Once again, Carnival has come and gone in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago but this year a collective agreement on Panorama may overcome the traditional partisan arguments. An explosion of physical, social and emotional energy is expended on Panorama for several months preceding Carnival each year. Panorama is more than a festival of pan […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Just as the heart was groaning under the weight of yet another foreign franchise coming to serve us coffee, in floats Ras Nijinsky to turn the imperial order upside down before sending it forth, unrecognizable to itself in ras and drag. This Minshall Ras Mas is, indeed, a high Mas, […]
Trinidad and Tobago’s San Fernanda Skinner’s Park was in pandemonium as fast-rising chutney soca artist KI aka Krisi Persad and his band won 2016 Chutney Soca Monarch, the third time the Canadian-based star has taken the crown. KI won in 2012 and 2014 while in 2015 he was dethroned by Ravi B. This time, he […]
Steelpan must be declared the national emblem of Trinidad and Tobago, The Pan Piper told The Camera at the annual showcase Snowflakes on Steel. Hameed Shaqq, aka The Pan Piper, made the comment at P.C. Ho Theatre Chinese Cultural Centre as some of Toronto’s finest steelpan orchestras performed in the Pan Arts Network (PAN) 19th […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Peoples National Movement (PNM) constituency of La Brea was the scene of fiery protests recently involving residents angry over the lack of job opportunities and the deplorable state of the road. The South Trunk Road was blockaded in at least 18 locations before daybreak, causing chaos for people trying to […]
