CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) is preparing to make a payout to the Government of Haiti as a result of the passage of Hurricane Matthew which triggered payments on the country’s Tropical Cyclone policy. Based on preliminary calculations, Haiti will receive a little over US$20 million – the largest payment ever…
Disaster time again, for our sisters and brothers in Haiti. Already the vultures circle, using this tragedy as another opportunity to take advantage or worse, to engage in the pornography of suffering black bodies. Now is not the time for tears, hand-wringing, there are lots of organisations that are quietly doing good work in Haiti…
This year’s theme is “re-igniting the Ancestral Fires, Establishing Presence” Monday 10th October – Amphitheate/ Arima Velodrome Children Edu-Fund Tours (Craft, Song, Music, Dance and Language Workshops), Petting Zoo, Performance/ Descendence Tuesday 11th October First People’s Centre 9.00 A.M. – Reflection on First People’s Spirituality 2.00 P.M. – Arima Town Hall: Leaders will meet to…
The annual Orisha Ocean Festival– Ase Odun Olokun– will be held over 3 days from this Friday 7th– Sunday 9th October 2016. On Friday 7th October the opening ceremony will be held at the Shrine on #12 First Street, Sparrow Drive, Simeon Road, Petit Valley from 7-9pm. On Saturday 8th October the festivities move to…
Our 20th Annual Orisa Feast 2016 Eriwo ya! Aboru ‘boye ‘bosise It is feast again at Ojubo Orisa Omolu – Ijo Ifa Imole Ose’tura! It is indeed a great pleasure that I Baba Awurela A. O. Fakayode together with members of Ojubo Orisa Omolu – Ijo Ifa Imole Ose’tura invite you to our 20th annual…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FstDKLSotBE?rel=0] I love this song, and look at that, the video has just been released. Jus Now is the Trini-UK duo of Kashav Chandradath Singh aka LAZABeam and Sam Interface (really Chadburn). Listen to their catalogue, it’s really good. They’ve done a lot of work with Bunji Garlin. But recent projects has seen them…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FstDKLSotBE?rel=0] I love this song, and look at that, the video has just been released. Jus Now is the Trini-UK duo of Kashav Chandradath Singh aka LAZABeam and Sam Interface (really Chadburn). Listen to their catalogue, it’s really good. They’ve done a lot of work with Bunji Garlin. But recent projects has seen them…
Appropriately taking place within Calypso History Month
In 2010 an animated journey began when Andres Mänd, the head of the Animation Department of Volda University Norway was invited to be on the jury for CubAnima film festival in Havana, Cuba. There he met the founder and director of Animae Caribe Animation Festival Camille Selvon Abrahams. There was an immediate connection and discussion…