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Orchid farm soon to be tourist attraction!

Posted by CaribShout on December 13, 2009 at 8:29pm

Butterfly Orchids will soon be the star attraction at a tourism oriented farm in Union, St. Lucia! What would you say if you were told that St Lucia was home to the largest and the overall best Orchid Centre in the Caribbean? Most people would firs

Explore Jamaica With The Caribbean’s First GPS Navigation System

Posted by CaribShout on December 11, 2009 at 7:00pm

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Exploring Jamaica just got easier with the creation of the Caribbean’s first GPS Navigation map data known as JAMNAV. The Mona GeoInformatics Institute of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica has developed and released JA

Mas Man, A Film About Trinidadian Peter Minshall, Excites Festival Audiences In Trinidad, London

Posted by CaribShout on December 11, 2009 at 7:06pm

Sherry-Ann Coelho wins Queen of the Bands, portraying Marilyn Monroe as "Fly, Fly Sweet Life," from the 1982 Peter Minshall Carnival band, "Papillon." Photo Courtesy of Callaloo Co. MIAMI - It won Best Documentary Award at the Trinidad and Tobago I

Caribbean Full-figure models ready for TV debut

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 6:55pm

Pulse made history at this year's Caribbean Model Search (CMS) when it named 24-year-old University of the West Indies student Tka Briscoe as its first Full Figure Fashion model winner. Full figured songstress, Timberlee, introduced the full figure

Living Colour: Keeping The Music Alive

Posted by CaribShout on December 6, 2009 at 7:14pm

For Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid (far left), if the music isn't the centerpiece, everything falls away. One of the most recognizable guitar riffs recorded in America belongs to Living Colour. The band's 1988 hit "Cult of Personality" regularl

Lauryn Hill To Headline New Zealand Festival

Posted by CaribShout on December 5, 2009 at 7:24pm

Lauryn Hill is scheduled to perform at the Raggamuffin Festival held in Rotorua, New Zealand next month. It'll be her first show since canceling a string of scheduled performances this past summer. The show's other high profile headliner is former F

Island novel crackles into life

Posted by CaribShout on December 6, 2009 at 4:49pm

Gilbert, Queenie, Bernard and Hortense are at the centre of Small Island War, prejudice, loss and identity. These are just some of sweeping themes in the novel Small Island, which is making the leap to the small screen. Andrea Levy's award-winning

Caribbean's climate concerns

Posted by CaribShout on December 6, 2009 at 4:36pm

As Caribbean peoples criss-cross their countries in the hustle and bustle of work, study and leisure, they appear to worry little about the effects of climate change until it hits them hard. Such was the case of unusually intense and prolonged rain

Soufriere captures under-16 schools netball title

Posted by CaribShout on December 3, 2009 at 10:59pm

How sweet it is! The Soufriere Secondary School Under-16 Netball team celebrating their finals victory over Micoud Secondary on Friday at the Vigie Multi-Purpose Complex. Winning definitely means Soufriere is very capable. Like we said from the beg

Cubans Hope, And Wait, For Flood Of U.S. Tourists

Posted by CaribShout on December 4, 2009 at 9:39am

Tourists ride along Havana's Malecon in April 2009 Cuba is the only country the U.S. government restricts Americans from visiting. A new bill in Congress is trying to change that. Opponents to the legislation say U.S. tourism dollars would help the

Crazy Fed Up

Posted by CaribShout on November 30, 2009 at 11:00pm

The lovable lunatic of calypso, Crazy has finally had enough of being denied the National Calypso Monarch title of Trinidad aTobago. He has declared that he is sitting out Carnival 2010, staying away from everything to do with the festival next year

Rohan Marley to 'stir up' Reggae Marathon

Posted by CaribShout on November 30, 2009 at 10:48pm

As plans are finalized for the ninth staging of the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K in Negril on December 5, the Jamdammers Running Club of Kingston, organizers of the event has announced that Rohan Marley, son of the iconic Bob Marley will b

Commonwealth targets climate change

Posted by CaribShout on November 29, 2009 at 11:15pm

UK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have proposed a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations deal with climate change. Mr Brown said the $10bn (£6bn) fund should also be used to help developing nations cut greenhouse

Yendi Turns Up The Heat

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 6:30pm

The shores of Cape Town South Africa will be graced with the beauty of the dynamic Jamaican, Yendi Phillipps. Miss Jamaica World 2007 and Digicel Rising Stars host will be following her dream and pursuing a career in modeling, at the prestigious Bas

My Sportsman of the year: Usain Bolt

Posted by CaribShout on November 25, 2009 at 10:30am

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Encores happen in sport, this we know. Michael Jordan kept winning NBA titles. Joe Montana kept winning S

When it comes to spelling girls are the queen bees!

Posted by CaribShout on November 23, 2009 at 10:30pm

Saint Lucia's Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy started the spelling bee which saw students from across the island take part. In the end Clendon Mason took the top spot. An article by Howard Wolinsky, in the Chicago Tribune, tells of research

Bolt and Richards are World Athletes of the Year – 2009 World Athletics Gala

Posted by CaribShout on November 23, 2009 at 10:00pm

Monte-Carlo – During the celebrations of the World Athletics Gala hosted by International Athletic Foundation (IAF) Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and IAF & IAAF President Lamine Diack in the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club

The legendary godfather of rap returns

Posted by CaribShout on November 21, 2009 at 12:30am

Gil Scott-Heron He was the man who invented rap, "the black Bob Dylan".As lanky as a basketball player, he delivered jeremiads against racism and poverty, but with such nonchalant poise that he might have been a Harlem Globetrotter. The phrase 'the

Jade Mountain wins GAVA Gold Award

Posted by CaribShout on November 21, 2009 at 12:54am

St Lucia’s Jade Mountain was the recipient of the first ever GAVA Gold Award at the inaugural award reception held at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas on November 15th. Also, the coral kaleidoscope pool of the Jade Mountain Club was chosen as the cover

Jr Gong, Nas for National Geographic event

Posted by CaribShout on November 19, 2009 at 11:00pm

Nas (left) and Damion 'Junior Gong' Marley shake hands following a performance at Reggae Sumfest this year American rapper Nas and Reggae's Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley thrilled audiences in Montego Bay this past summer as their performed together giving

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