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Easter Monday is the public holiday which culminates the biggest weekend in the Christian calendar, starting with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday and ending in his glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday. Easter Monday this year falls on April 18. That date is also the centennial of the birth of one of the greatest cultural icons in Caribbean history, the calypso giant, christened as Aldwyn Roberts, but better …

By Renwick Rose GLOWING TRIBUTES are flowing from all over the world to the great West Indies spin bowler of the epic era of the 1950s, Sonny Ramadin of Trinidad and Tobago who passed away over the weekend. [caption id=

, Feb 28 (IANS) Legendary West Indies spinner, Sonny Ramadhin, who was one of the mainstays of the Caribbean sides of the 1950s, has passed away at the age of 92.A right-hand bowler, who could bowl both off-spin and leg-spin without any major ...

Former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies spinner Sonny Ramadhin has died. He was 92. He played 43 Test matches, taking 158 wickets at 28.98 in a career that spanned 1950 to 1961. Ramadhin, who was the first man of Indian descent to play

The earliest calypsonians reign Part II SOMEWHERE between 1897 and 1900 Phillip Garcia, who sang under the sobriquet of Lord Executor, appeared on the calypso stage. The dates differ between calypsonian Atilla the Hun (Raymond Quevedo) and theatre historian Errol Hill, but most importantly, as calypso historian and ethnomusicologist Dr Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool writes in Calypsonians to Remember, Lord Executor revolutionised calypso by being the first calypsonians to sing in English. Cha...

The soul of calypso Lord Kitchener, left, Lord Superior and Melody - ITS impossible to think of Carnival without calypso. From the plantations where slaves once performed to entertain or insult slave masters’ guests to the post-Emancipation Carnival celebrations, calypso always offered a platform for entertainment and education. If you listen closely to the music of today, you can hear the voices of the past: Lord Executor, Railway Douglas, Lord Beginner, Atilla the Hun and Spoiler. Those pi...