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R&B/Soul singers Erykah Badu and Babyface added to Jamaica Jazz & Blues

Posted by CaribShout on December 30, 2009 at 10:01pm

The line-up of the 14th staging of the JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival has been expanded to include the multi-platinum singers Babyface and Erykah Badu. The now weeklong Festival takes place at multiple venues islandwide starting on Sunday, January

OECS establishes economic union

Posted by CaribShout on December 30, 2009 at 9:30pm

Leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), except Montserrat, have signed a new treaty establishing the OECS Economic Union. The framework for the new free trade area was formalised in the St Kiits capital, Basseterre on Tuesday

HOPE facelift for St. Lucia's Inner City

Posted by CaribShout on December 19, 2009 at 2:56pm

Extensive drainage repair works are currently being carried out by the Hope project on two major waterways in Rose Hill. The Holistic Opportunity for Personal Empowerment (HOPE) project is infusing optimism into the inner-city through several proje

Not even the rain could put out the Festival of Lights in St. Lucia!

Posted by CaribShout on December 19, 2009 at 2:30pm

Traditional dancing with a modern twist! Music rang out from a beach party at Vigie. A get together was well underway opposite the Vigie Playing Field. Nashville Palace was swinging with country lovers. And yet the combined number of participants di

Will our politicians learn from the banana nightmare?

Posted by CaribShout on December 21, 2009 at 7:39pm

Spare a thought this Christmas for our banana farmers in Micoud, Babonneau and Dennery, the island’s main banana producing communities. The longest international trade dispute is over: the European Union (EU) is no longer prepared to fight for the p

Cubans "Get Down on It" with Kool & the Gang

Posted by CaribShout on December 21, 2009 at 8:00pm

"This is an honourable event for us," said one band member of the free concert The main road along Havana's seafront, the Malecon, was sealed off on Sunday as thousands of Cubans flocked to a free open air concert by the veteran American funk disco

Deluged in toyland?

Posted by CaribShout on December 19, 2009 at 3:30pm

By Deborah Netburn. How do you limit the collection of playthings around the house for your little one? Here are some success stories and one misstep. Popular children's author and illustrator David Shannon put out a book last year that made kids la

Negril, Jamaica

Posted by CaribShout on November 26, 2009 at 7:07pm

Jamaica's shrine to permissive indulgence, NEGRIL has metamorphosed from deserted fishing beach to full-blown resort town in little over two decades. American hippies first started visiting what was then a virgin paradise in the 1970s, setting the t

Jamaican Reggae Legend Willie Stewart Jams With Students At Broward Center

Posted by CaribShout on December 10, 2009 at 10:02pm in Culture

Students from Winston Park Elementary and Parkway Middle School participated in the Arts Inspire... workshop. FORT LAUDERDALE – The Broward Center for the Performing Arts, designated as the county’s first international cultural embassy by the Browar

Rihanna would 'love to play Glastonbury'

Posted by CaribShout on December 10, 2009 at 10:00pm

Rihanna will play a UK arena tour in 2010. Rihanna has said she's returning to the UK next summer to play gigs and would "love to" play Glastonbury. The Barbadian singer, who yesterday announced details of a UK arena tour for May 2010, described the

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

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