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Calypso Art Specialists keep the music playing for youths Sunday 28 February 2021 Cindy Ann Bigford performs Stop Domestic Violence to win the 13-17 category of the virtual Junior Calypso Festival. - After a successful inaugural Junior Calypso Festival, Joseph “Joey” Rivers has additional plans to keep young people involved in music throughout the year. Rivers, 49, through his organisation Calypso Art Specialists TT (CASTT), launched the festival this Carnival season with its target competitors in two categories – 12-and under and 13-17. The objectives were to encourage participation, ...

Acting Planning and Development Minister Sen. Allyson West (top right) converses with Ministers Kazim Hosein (1 st Left) and Pennelope Beckles (2 nd left) and UDeCOTT team (off camera).  The other members of the Port of Spain Revitalisation Ministerial Committee joined the meeting virtually. Acting Planning and Development Minister Senator Allyson West is announcing for public information that following a meeting of the Ministerial Committee for the Revitalisation of Port of Spain on February 9, 2021, there has been significant headway regarding the Government’s plans for the nation’s ca...

Steelin’ Love with Bruce Roberts at Kafé Blue Bruce Roberts - PANNIST Bruce Roberts will host his third annual Valentine’s concert: In Love with Bruce III: Steelin’ Love, on February 13, at Kafé Blue, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain. Accompanying musicians include Joseph "Joey" Rivers, guitar; Rodney Harris, keys; Nigel Baptiste, bass; and Kevin Cooper on drums. Guest performers will be Marcia Miranda, Dr Louis Nurse and Wayne Waldron. Known from his days of playing the tenor pan with the band Louis & the Lynx, Roberts, the former Massy All Stars stage side pannist, is also a music e...

QuotaTT awards scholarships “Learn to appreciate others, always remember that we cannot stand on our own.” This was the call of feature speaker Sade Walker, investigating officer at the Ministry of Education, at QuotaTT’s second annual scholarship awards for deaf and hard-of-hearing students who were successful at the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA). Walker, an advocate for people with disabilities and an aspiring children’s book author, shared her personal story of triumph at the event at Dretchi compound on Wrightson Road, Port of Spain. “When I was an infant, the results of a...

Children's Authority director Nichola Harvey-Mitchell - NATALIE MILES The adage, “It takes a village to raise a child” is something the director of the Children’s Authority is hoping to achieve over the next three years to ensure the protection of children. Nichola Harvey-Mitchell, 50, took up her role in March last year and has big plans for the organisation, from reform and self-sustainability to legislative changes. Harvey-Mitchell, who has been an advocate for children in her personal life, told Sunday Newsday she intended to fully explore the rights of a child and ensure they were...