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Kyle Hernandez is the 2023 winner of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam (FCNPS), the popular spoken word championship. He triumphed over 14 finalists to take the prize of $50,000, sponsored by First Citizens. Performing before a sold-out audience at the Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain, on April 30, Hernandez wooed the judges with
THE Ministry of Youth Development and National Service has relaunched its 40 Under 40 Programme which aims to connect youth development influencers with students at 26 secondary schools across TT, as well as communities across both islands. Speaking at the launch of the programme on Monday at Castle Killarney, the ministry’s permanent secretary Sean Ramrattan
ANDREW GIOANNETTI A UNIQUE and diverse group of performers, from seven-year-olds Coryn Clarke and Asaiah Hislop to the more established actor and poet Derron Sandy, will feature at the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) music department's year-end production, The Greatest Story, Thrill of Hope. The opening night and gala will take place at USC,
What began as “Culture Week” has exploded into month-long celebration of art, literature, cuisine, music and other cultural assets.
8 Trinidad and Tobago writers on Bocas longlist Amanda Choo Quan last year's winner of the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP). - THE 2021 longlist for the region’s only prize for emerging writers, the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), has been announced by the Bocas Lit Fest. Of the ten writers longlisted for the third and last edition of the prize, eight are from Trinidad and Tobago. This unique award is dedicated to advancing the work of an emerging Caribbean voice in the poetry genre; the 2019 and 2020 prizes were for fiction and non-fiction r...