Author: Yvonne Webb

Chutney soca singer GI (Imran Beharry) is exploring his full potential as an artiste. Not only is he experimenting with new genres for 2025, but he is also fully investing in his entrepreneurial interests as a mas band leader. For Carnival 2025, GI has teamed up with a group of stakeholders to diversify its ten-year […]

THE permanent closure of Carrat Shed on September 1 will mark the end of an era in Marabella. To the people of Marabella, Carrat Shed was never just a bar. It was an institution: one which helped to nurture the community, provide entertainment and most of all bring about social equity. The foundations Carrat Shed […]

FORMER Couva/Point Lisas chamber president Mukesh Ramsingh was the only one of 18 people screened by the People’s National Movement (PNM) on August 23, to be selected as a candidate for the 2025 general election. Ramsingh was selected from among five candidates, including Kiran Singh, head of the San Fernando Greater Chamber; Kindell Mc Intosh; […]

STAFF and customers at South Haven Mall, Debe, got quite a scare when fire broke out around 9.45 am on August 20. A member of staff, whose identity was not revealed, was injured. Neither the nature nor seriousness of the injury is known as yet. Staff and customers were evacuated from the mall as a […]

LEGENDARY calypsonian Chalkdust (Hollis Liverpool) sang that in the midst of chaos, you have to learn to laugh. The sentiment has found accord with Philip Montano, a practitioner of the art of ole mas, which is steeped in satire and picong, and from which he and his audience derive the same pleasure – laughter. Not […]