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High notes to end Bocas Lit Fest evenings Mervyn Morris - Despite continued restrictions on gatherings, the 2021 NGC Bocas Lit Fest will stay true to its usual social and cultural evening fare in its 2021 all-virtual festival. The three festival days – April 23-25 – all close with engaging celebrations of music, Caribbean literature, and prize-winners’ announcements. After a decade of annual literary celebration, festival-goers have become accustomed to nightly wrap-up sessions fitting of the largest literary festival in the Caribbean, and this year will be no exception, albeit in virt...

AS the NGC Bocas Lit Fest rolls out a second year of an all-virtual festival, from April 23-25, young ones can look forward to dynamic and engaging online content on two days of the festival. The children’s sessions will come alive in myriad exciting ways for a fresh crop of young readers and writers as it features some of the best storytellers, local talent, and stories written by children during the past ten years of the NGC Children’s Storytelling Caravan. While the pandemic has paused the traditional caravan that toured communities across the country, actors and technical producers ha...

A literary Ray Funk On Sat­ur­day, at 11 am, the NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest will pre­miere a new half-hour film, Port of Spain: A Writer’s Heav­en. Join host Wen­dell Man­war­ren of 3Canal as he wan­ders the streets of the city bring­ing alive works of lit­er­a­ture from clas­sics to con­tem­po­rary. This doc­u­men­tary was made to cel­e­brate the 10th an­niver­sary of the Bo­cas Lit Fest and was made pos­si­ble by the fes­ti­val’s ti­tle spon­sor, The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, and with the sup­port of the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts. It is ...

Children’s stories come alive at Bocas Lit Fest 2 Hrs Ago New stories in the Dragonzilla’s Storytime series premiere during the 2021 NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest. Actor Farouk Jr brings The Mystery of the Seaweed to life. - AS the NGC Bocas Lit Fest rolls out a second year of an all-virtual festival, from April 23-25, young ones can look forward to dynamic and engaging online content on two days of the festival. The children’s sessions will come alive in myriad exciting ways for a fresh crop of young readers and writers as it features some of the best storytellers, local talent, and...

Beneath the surface of things 4 Hrs Ago In this file photo, a security guard directs a visitor to the waiting tent at the Diego Martin Health Centre on Wendy Fitzwilliam Boulevard, Diego Martin. - AYANNA KINSALE Last week was the worst of weeks and the best of weeks. The messy vaccine rollout necessitated my bundling my 99-year-old mother into the car and striking out in search of a designated health centre in the hope of finding one without waiting lines and prepared to register us. At Diego Martin, my good luck was in top gear. Having no wheelchair, I hoped to find a parking spot pretty clo...