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Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Fraudsters have been taking advantage of elderly people facing social isolation brought about by lockdown. This has prompted a support network being formed to help protect vulnerable residents in the Oban area. The Argyll policewoman behind the scheme says that while there has been a decrease in some areas of crime with less people on the streets – other areas have soared. In Argyll and Bute the number of frauds being reported to police has nearly doubled when compared...

International mas maker creates mini Minshall band International mas maker Sudesh Ramsaran in his J'Ouvert costume. WHEN Carnival 2021 was cancelled, international mas maker Sudesh Ramsaran came up with the big idea of a miniature mas band. Ramsaran created the band as a display for the Central Statistical Office (CSO), where he has worked as a statistical officer for the past 18 years. The band was heavily inspired by the work of legendary mas maker Peter Minshall, crafted using his skills as a mas designer for two decades, and fuelled by his love for the festival, which began when he was a...

Campbeltown Courier PC Laura Evans. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall. However,  To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic. The good news is that for the whole of December we will be ...

Vaneisa: ‘Out of yesterday’s rejection, onward to a new perfection’; A praise song for Carnival I had begun writing about something entirely different when I suddenly felt I didn’t want to anymore, not this week anyway. It was too utterly oppressive and my mood had been altered by two sightings. One was photographs of the murals that Jackie Hinkson put up yesterday on Fisher Avenue so that we can find a little something to feed the Carnival. The other was a sketch that my daughter did that also waylaid me. Photo: Peter Minshall’s 2016 Carnival creation: The Dying Swan—Ras Nijinsky...

Caribbean Yard Campus offers mas-making course Attendees inspect the creations of the students of the Earth to Sky course in 2019 - Paula Lindo THE Caribbean Yard Campus (CYC) will be offering its Earth to Sky Mas Design, Construction and Performance course beginning on February 6. The course offers an alternative opportunity for mas people wishing to learn new skills and to become qualified in mas building. The programme will last for one year, culminating in Carnival 2022. It is the only programme of its type globally that is fully certified by TT’s National Training Agency, the campus s...