If you attended last Saturday’s Talk Hard at Limelight, hosted by Adrian Green and D.J Simmons, then you’ll recall the trio known as Nefasha Ayer (Meklit, Todd and Prasant).Well, Tuesday evening just gone, they had a concert that night before they head back to the San Francisco Bay Area – Adrian and D.J took part [...]

Nevis will have its base load electrical power supplied by geothermal energy towards the end of this year. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of West Indies Power Nevis Ltd, Mr. Kerry McDonald made the disclosure during an exclusive interview with the Department of Information recently, as the company commenced drilling operations at its first site in [...]

At a surprise meet and greet at the Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw (RLB) International Airport in Basseterre St. Kitts, Sam Condor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Culture & Sports, welcomed John Barnes, Head Coach of the Digicel Clinics: ?I want to commend Digicel for this initiative and as a fellow footballer welcome John Barnes [...]

As they say, de men ready to do de dog. This Saturday night, January 26, Kite launches its full band to kick off its ‘3 Miles In 3 Months Tour‘ at Jumbies in the Gap. Special guest appearance by Billy Kincaid. Andre Forde on steel drum. DJ Ozzie The Wizard will be in too. $15. [...]

St Kitts’ Minister of Agriculture, Cedric Liburd, revealed that the government of Taiwan will provide assistance to enable three local farmers to upgrade their output. Luther Clarke, Keithley Armstrong and Joseph Huggins who work in three main sectors of agriculture will each be aided to provide even more products, initially, to the Federation. The agricultural [...]

After releasing over 40 full length albums, Luciano is back with his new work: ‘Jah Is My Navigator‘. ‘Jah Is My Navigator‘ is fifteen Tracks of pure unadulterated roots rock reggae and highlights Luciano’s position as one for greatest reggae singers to come out of Jamaica. Luciano’s music is timeless and edifying. His mission is [...]

For the second time, Zedstar was interviewed on Fox TV – the first time was about his attempted wooing of the Barbadian popstar Rihanna: he denied this as a mere rumour and after a few days the world was on fire trying to decide if it is true about the Bajan entertainer and Josh Hartnett [...]

EXCLUSIVE Video Footage of shoplifting at clothing store in Saddle Road, Maraval, Trinidad courtesy rhabr007

Three projects have been earmarked to help SKN students who have unfair social and economic situations to compete in school and later on in the working world. The projects jointly referred to as the ?Hemispheric Project on Secondary Education? is a joint project of the countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) to share [...]

Alexander wept when there were no more worlds to conquer and he was only 25; Napoleon became a General at 24 – so why can’t a Jamaican publicist earn two sweet contracts before she even sees 30?Alison Young (in name and nature) is currently hopping from island to island tracking Digicel’s Kick Start Football Clinic, [...]

Barbados? Autism Association got a great boost in creating a Centre for their wards via the kindness of the Anglican Church. Their President Lawton Walcott unveiled plans for the Centre shortly after he received a cheque for $10 000, part of the proceeds from the Anglican Church?s classical concert, featuring Trinidad-born Soprano Jeanine DeBique at [...]

Now if an Awards show is to be done – this is how it should be organised! Criteria and Tabulation Methods explained even before the show starts… This is how Jamaica kicks it, and I think it is timeless advice – By popular demand the fourth installment of the Annual Excellence in Music and Entertainment [...]

I have been having very intermittent service from C&W since late December, part of the reason this is only now appearing. I have been taking the precaution of saving the entries on Microsoft Word before Publishing so if the Net goes off at least I have an entry to restore later despite Blogger’s autosave facility, [...]

When the Stanford 20/20 Cricket Tournament gets underway this Saturday, 26 January at the Stanford Cricket Ground, those gates will open at 4:00pm and fans can expect an exciting, dynamic opening ceremony followed by an entertaining, power-packed cricket match featuring one of the newly-formed Stanford 20/20 Professional Teams. The Cayman Islands will take on the [...]

There are many stars from the Caribbean but there is only one Jadine. Born Jadine Greenaway and hailing from the Emerald Isle of Montserrat, Jadine aka the Soca Deva first discovered her calling for soca music as a child, and has turned that passion into a successful career since 2004. “My mother has a beautiful [...]

Over in Germany, a contest led thousands of entries from all over the world flocking to a zoo to name a baby cub narrowly snatched from endangered extinction by its own family – Zookeepers announced last week that they had taken Flocke away from her mother after fears the mother would eat her. The zoo’s [...]

Olympus Theatres is announcing an exclusive VIP OSCAR PARTY and OSCAR WEEK Starting Wed Feb 27. The VIP OSCAR PARTY includes FREE CHAMPAGNE and Canap?s ! VIP OSCAR PARTY only $50 – All other OSCAR WEEK films only $20 Enter the ?PREDICT THE OSCAR WINNERS CONTEST? Free entry form with each advance ticket purchase. Are [...]

The third and final day of the Barbados Digicel Kick Start Clinics ended with an arduous 2-1 win for the National Under-19 team. The National team played against the Carlton Pro Shottas at the Weymouth Police Sports Club on Saturday January 19. The match, competitive and hard fought, saw two teams evenly contested battle it [...]

James Brown has sung about hot pants, Jamaicans are legendary for their batty riders, but in England when a bread fry went awry? CNN says it was underwear what kept the flames undercover – John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying bread in Jenny Marsey’s kitchen in Hartlepool, northeast England, over the weekend [...]

A moment of seeming mystery at the Arrivals Hall at the Grantley Adams Int’l Airport, when what was clearly a large bottle of Absolut shrouded behind drapery and spotlights as a veritable Who’s Who of Barbadiana gathered such as Ann Rudder and Maria Elias… Omowale Stewart chatted with Stedson Wiltshire – aka – RPB, many-crowned [...]

St. Kitts and Nevis has been invited to host the Fifth Petro Caribe Summit in June this year. This is according to SKN’s Minister of Public Utilities, Transport and Posts Honourable Earl Asim Martin, who was addressing the media during his first press conference for 2008. He elaborated that there have already been two Petro [...]

Caribbean music has always been depicted in certain ways – artists are almost always vying for love, lust, power or revenge, common themes in urban music emanating from the American hip-hop and rap game. However, one thing you almost never hear, are Caribbean artists driving lyrics that boast of their personal wealth and financial status. [...]

What do you think will take Barbados? film industry forward? How do you think it should go forward?These questions and answers will form the major part of a discussion hosted by the National Cultural Foundation (NCF), to which all participants of the growing film industry in Barbados, including screenwriters, producers, and technical personnel, are invited. [...]

Reggae and dancehall music has seen its fair share of icons, and among them is a familiar face that has been bringing intimate interviews with the stars of these genres into households across the Caribbean and U.S. for years. Jamaican-born Paula “Suzie Q” Henry is the producer and host of the popular Video Alley – [...]

There will be no fogging on Monday, January 21 – Errol Barrow Day, a public holiday. There’ll be more fogging from Tuesday, January 22, in St. Michael when a number of areas will be visited by the team from the Vector Control Unit. The areas to be visited are: Highgate Park, Highgate Gardens, Upper Collymore [...]