culture
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Barbados To Host CARIFESTA 2017
“Barbados will be hosting Carifesta in 2017.” Minister of Culture, Stephen Lashley made the announcement, yesterday, during a press conference at the Ministry’s Headquarters at Sky Mall, Haggatt Hall, St Michael. According to the Minister, this ‘huge venture’ fits directly under the ministry’s mandate “to propel the growth of the cultural industries and to support our artistes.” “We can reap…
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Jennifer Hudson Set to Headline Tobago Jazz Experience
Music superstar Jennifer Hudson is set to headline the Tobago Jazz Experience this year, organizers announced. Hudson will lead a lineup that includes Jill Scott, Kool and the Gang and Miguel, among others. The festival will be hosted at locations including Speyside, Signal Hill, Castara and Pigeon Point Heritage Park, with each community hosting multiple events and performances. “The Division…
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Greater international prospects for Caribbean music
Growing the multi- million dollar Caribbean Music Industry will be a major focus of the 3rd CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum which will be held April 15-16 at the Hilton Rose Hall, Montego Bay Jamaica. David Sanders, Producer at Coke Studio Africa, Eldar Ástþórsson, Senior PR Manager – Europe, CCP Games and Ylir Music Fund, Ronald ‘Boo’ Hinkson, Performer/Artiste and Jeffrey “Assassin” Campbell, Jamaican/International…
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St. Kitts and Nevis youth unleash spoken word potential
‘Vybzing with the Youth’, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture in St. Kitts and Nevis and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) hosted a spoken word exercise, at the Sweet Lime restaurant on Saturday, March 28, entitled ‘Vybzing, St. Kitts and Nevis Spoken Word Workshop’. Held under the theme, ‘Creative Industries and Youth: Unleashing Potential and Growth’,…
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The Skin makes regional site’s movies to watch list
A regional website, Caribbean & CO, has listed Antiguan film The Skin as one of 10 movies to watch. The supernatural thriller by HaMa films will become a part of a Caribbean Film database which will be launched later this year during the 10th annual Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. The database will include feature-length independent Caribbean fiction, documentary and experimental feature films…
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UNESCO African Ancestry Project to be Launched in Nevis
(NATCOM) – St. Kitts, April 1, 2015: In an information statement released by the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society (NHCS), Executive Director, Evelyn Henville said her organization is about to launch a project entitled “Educating the Population of St. Kitts and Nevis on Afro-Caribbean Ancestry” next Tuesday (April 07). Ms. Henville stated that implementation of the programme otherwise dubbed “The…
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Caribbean Export Awards €700,000 to Agri-business and Handicraft Firms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has awarded €700,000 to 31 firms and Business Support Organizations (BSOs) in Haiti and the Dominican Republic via the Binational Grants Programme, as part of the Haiti/Dominican Republic Binational Programme, Commerce Component, funded by the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF). The announcement was made at the launch and reimbursement workshops…
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Use Memorial to say no to racism, discrimination: Jamaica’s Prime Minister
Today is a significant day in history especially for Africans at home and in the Diaspora. As Bob Marley sang: “There’s a natural mystic flowing through the air. If you listen carefully you will hear.” Today, is all the more fitting for this International Day of Commemoration, as it was on March 25, 1807 that one European nation, Britain, passed…
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Industry Minister Encourages Regional Private Sector To Embrace Soca
KINGSTON, Jamaica March 20, 2015 – Industry, Investment, and Commerce Minister, Anthony Hylton, is encouraging regional private sector interests to embrace the proposed Services of the Caribbean (SOCA) initiative. The initiative seeks to position the services sector as the new focus of United States-CARICOM trade and investment relations, under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). Mr. Hylton told a public forum, hosted…
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Initiatives To Facilitate Building Of Cultural Industries Are To Be Announced
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says the Government will shortly be making announcements in relation to the introduction of initiatives to facilitate the building of cultural industries here. He made the disclosure during a News Conference on Tuesday, as he provided the media with an update on the issues discussed at the 26th Intersessional Meeting of Caricom, held in the…
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