Author: Melissa Doughty

The Ultimate Soca Champion will win a prize of $1 million, one of its organisers Jerome “Rome” Precilla announced on January 17 at a press conference at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s Road, Port of Spain. In a competition mirroring international reality TV models, it will showcase the background story of some of its competitors and […]

NATIONAL Carnival Commission (NCC) chairman Winston “Gypsy” Peters and Southex CEO George Singh said competitions are still necessary for artiste development in Trinidad and Tobago. During the Chutney Soca Monarch (CSM) launch at the Queen’s Park Savannah (QPS), Port of Spain on January 15, Singh and Gypsy said artistes like reigning Calypso Monarch Machel Montano […]

SHARON NG WAI-PANTIN had a million thanks for the country when interviewed on January 8. She told Newsday that musician and producer Joey Ng Wai was now talking, awake and had been extubated (had his breathing tube removed). While he was not still fully coherent, she said, he had made massive improvements and strides. Ng […]

TRINIDAD and Tobago is being asked to pray for musician Joey Ng Wai, 54. The self-taught master guitarist and music producer is currently warded in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Port of Spain General Hospital with pneumonia and is unconscious. His sister Sharon Ng Wai-Pantin spoke to Newsday on January 3. She said […]

SOCA artiste Kevon “Yankey Boy” Heath has ended his 14-day hunger strike. The artiste posted this news on his Instagram page on December 12. Yankey Boy began the action in protest on November 27 against Jamaican artiste Adidja “Vybz Kartel” Palmer’s pending performance at a One Caribbean Music Festival concert on February 28, Carnival Friday. […]

NATIONAL Transformation Alliance (NTA) political leader and former police commissioner Gary Griffith said December 7’s protests were not just about the Salaries Review Commission (SRC) report and increases for top public officials, but rather, years of frustration. The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) and other unions held a rally at the Queen’s Park Savannah on […]