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San Fernando student, 7, wins junior calypso competition Thursday 11 February 2021 Junior Calypso competition 2021 winner at City Hall San Fernando, Melody Nicholas, 7, of St Gabriel's Girls performs her song "covid aint easy", backed up by Keshawn Gomez of San Fernando Boy's. - Marvin Hamilton Seven-year-old Melody Nicholas has won the junior calypso competition hosted by the San Fernando Carnival Committee on Thursday. Melody, who attends St Gabriel's Girls' RC, wooed the judges at the City Hall auditorium at Harris Promenade with a song titled Covid Ain't Easy. The standard one student w...

Monday 1 February 2021 San Fernando mayor Junia Regrello unveils the Steve Achiba street sign in honour of the former steelband icon who brought national pride to San Fernando when he led Hatters to win its only national panorama title . With Regrello are Achiba's wife Candice, daughter Adriana and son Jonathan. - Yvonne Webb IT was an emotional moment for his family on Wednesday as a street in San Fernando was named in honour of panman Steve Achaiba. Achaiba was one of the first pannists to win a national Panorama both as a player and arranger. He played for Panorama champions Guinness Cava...

Saturday 30 January 2021 Trumpeter Etienne Charles, left, Len “Boogsie” Sharpe, and Barbadian saxophonist Romaro Greaves will perform in Another Phase virtual concert being staged by HADCO Phase II Pan Groove on Sunday. - HADCO Phase II Pan Groove captain Terry Bernard is promising patrons that Sunday's virtual concert, Another Phase, will be "epic." He said the approximately two-hour, pre-recorded show was originally scheduled to be broadcast on January 27 but was moved to January 31 to accommodate supporters who were not aware of the cut-off time and had waited until the "last minute."...

Carnival Tempo coming in San Fernando Nadia Batson - ONE southern steelband plans to maximise the time slot usually reserved on the Carnival calendar for the Calypso Fiesta show to stage an event targeting local and international audiences. CAL Skiffle Steel Orchestra will create an alternative event to help ease the Carnival tabanca and reconnect nationals and the diaspora with their favourite artistes via a virtual space. Calypso Fiesta, the annual calypso picnic where thousands would have gathered to hear and critique the cream of the calypso crop, from among whom finalists would have be...

21 families benefit from housing programme - Lincoln Holder The Rowley government’s philosophy is that every citizen deserves access to affordable homes, said the Housing and Urban Development Minister, adding that the Housing and Village Improvement Programme (HVIP) positively affects families nationwide. At a handover ceremony on Wednesday at City Hall in San Fernando, Pennelope Beckles said since the programme’s inception, about 240 families from 14 communities have benefited. Another benefit of HVIP is the creation of job opportunities, she said. “To date, HVIP has created jobs for...