Author: Corey Connelly
THA SECRETARY of Education, Research and Technology Zorisha Hackett has urged young women to resist societal structures that limit their potential to excel. She was addressing a symposium to commemorate International Women’s Day at the Division of Community Development, Youth Development and Sport, Glen Road Scarborough, Tobago, on March 7. International Women’s Day is observed […]
PAN TRINBAGO president Beverly Ramsey-Moore has stoutly defended her band’s victory in the National Panorama Medium Conventional band final at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago, on February 23. Ramsey-Moore is the leader of Katzenjammers, which won a hat-trick in the competition with its stirring version of the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) tune Lying Excuses. […]
They promised they would do it. And they did. Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra secured its hattrick in the national médium conventional band competition at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago. The results were announced around 12.15 am on February 24. Playing in position number two, the band from Black Rock delivered an electrifying performance to the […]
PAN TRINBAGO president Beverly Ramsey-Moore says the stage is set for the fourth edition of the National Panorama Medium Conventional Final on February 23 at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago. “The venue is all set and ready and things are going pretty well,” she told Newsday. “Most importantly, we now have the Tobago drag […]
DIANE Mc Crimmon, chair of the Tobago Mas Bandleaders Association, says registration for mas bands participating in the upcoming Carnival has been extended to February 24. Carnival is being held on March 3 and 4 under the theme No Place Like Home. At a news conference on February 7 at the Shaw Park Cultural Complex, […]
Katzenjammers Steel Orchestra captain Maxson Ramsey is confident the band will secure a hat-trick in the national Panorama medium-band final on February 23 at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago. The Black Rock outfit will come up against nine other bands in the final. Katzenjammers, two-time defending champions, placed first in the semi-finals of the […]
AFTER being adrift in a pirogue at sea for four days, Tobago fishermen Albert James and Junior Thorne were miraculously rescued by two other fishermen and brought safely back to shore, near the Pigeon Point Depot, on February 15. The men, who appeared weary and shaken, walked into the arms of their family members shortly […]
A LEGAL battle is brewing between Secretary of Education, Research and Technology Zorisha Hackett and PNM Tobago Council political leader Ancil Dennis over alleged defamatory remarks made by the latter in relation to the THA’s tertiary student support programme. Dennis posted the comments on social media on February 5. Attorney Marion Ingrid Melville, who is […]
THA CHIEF Secretary Farley Augustine said the public had lost faith in the police long before Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher was suspended. The Police Service Commission (PSC) suspended Harewood-Christopher from duty on January 31, pending the outcome of a criminal investigation into the acquisition of two sniper rifles for the Strategic Services Agency (SSA). Harewood-Christopher […]
THE TOBAGO Business Chamber is urging the Police Service Commission (PSC) to send Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher on administrative leave immediately, pending the outcome of a criminal investigation involving the importation of two military-grade sniper weapons for the Strategic Services Agency (SSA). It also wants the commission to appoint an acting police commissioner during the […]