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SpotlightSound Engineering: What are we doing to improve?
Ian JacksonMay 3, 2019As far as I can recall not even one young person has been offered a scholarship far less encouraged to do sound engineering as a vocation. Sure we have about ...
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SpotlightThe Voice
Ian JacksonApril 11, 2019Yes, indeed there are those who are born with it and we must listen when they talk. It has nothing to do with charisma or style or good looks; it's ...
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Our CaribbeanSelling or saving the soul of the OAS
Sir Ron SandersApril 11, 2019The Organisation of American States (OAS), already a broken institution, was shattered even more on April 9 at a meeting of its Permanent Council. It is now an organisation whose ...
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SpotlightNasio and Calypso a Must for WCMF 2019
Ian JacksonApril 10, 2019It's been a cry, seemingly unheeded, since no clarifications have been given to explain why Dominica's premier Reggae artiste, and one of the world's greatest, is yet to grace the ...
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SpotlightFamalay lay, lay, lay
Ian JacksonApril 2, 2019'Famalay'-a song written and performed by Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano from Trinidad and Tobago and Skinny Fabulous from St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been breaking record views across ...
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SpotlightAsh in the Mas
Ian JacksonApril 2, 2019In his January 2019 article entitled "A Brief History of Carnival in the Caribbean" Christopher Curley acknowledges that Carnival has mixed roots of African culture and Catholicism
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SpotlightCalypso: Put Your House in Order
Ian JacksonApril 1, 2019It will happen; it's just a matter of time. How long? One decade possibly is my prediction before Bouyon completely overhauls Calypso and then it will become merely a staged ...
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SpotlightCalypso, respect and pageants
Ian JacksonApril 1, 2019Congratulations to all winners of Mas Domnik 2019 shows with especial the nine-time Monarch, the Dice. He is now in position number two in the region after Antigua's Short Shirt ...
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SpotlightKaiso, running with eyes open: A review of the Calypso ...
Ian JacksonFeb. 28, 2019Intruder's perennial persistence and his success at making the semis in 2019 after over two decade since he produced "Pull string" and "Cellular Phone" serves as a yardstick or measurement, ...
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SpotlightThe Kaiso Effect
Ian JacksonFeb. 22, 2019He hears the announcement on radio stations and it just jolts him as the decision he made last year- "I want to sing Calypso'. There are many things on his ...
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SpotlightNew year-old challenges
Ian JacksonFeb. 22, 2019Calypso is the event which takes centre stage as we begin the New Year and so there was a scramble for songs even when no calypsonian or prospective calypsonian, even ...
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Our CaribbeanGive Uruguay Meeting a chance to bring settlement to Venezuela ...
Sir Ron SandersFeb. 1, 2019The Heads of Government of the independent member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), who met by video conference on January 24 to consider the fast-moving events surrounding Venezuela, demonstrated ...
