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YouTube video by Soyini Nneka Sparrow At 90: Veteran Calypsonian Says He Will As Many Years As He Can Handle

Sparrow turned 90 yesterday, he told me he will take as many years as he could handle: youtu.be/9lOGegf4XQM

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YouTube video by Soyini Nneka Indian Arrival Day 2025

About Indian Arrival Day youtu.be/2ulxciisIfQ

Guess who got to see Kartel and Spice perform Ramping Shop live! I can hardly believe it too. Baderation 2025 was a brilliant showcase of the region's best performers: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/27/a...

I think what irritates me about A.I. tech for example is how the developers seem to think creating for creating sake is ok, and to hell with consequences. #mic #caribmediasummit

Is It Ethical to Buy Used Books and Music?

Used books are a low-cost way to see if you like what an author has to offer. If you do find you like them, then you can buy their next book new, possibly from the same bookseller. They're also a way to get books no longer in print.

(gift article)

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Wishing I had a trip to Curacao lined up: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/14/c...

A French icon falls: Gérard Depardieu’s guilt will make his films hard to watch Some will argue the actor’s legacy of landmark film roles should not be tainted by his conviction for sexual assault. But it will

A French icon falls: Gérard Depardieu’s guilt will make his films hard to watch

Cassie Ventura claims ‘physical abuse’ from ex Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in sex-trafficking trial Singer said on the stand there were ‘violent arguments’ and ‘dragging’ in former relationship with the hip-hop mogul The singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs and central character in the case against him, took the stand on Tuesday as the high-profile federal trial of Combs enters its second day in lower Manhattan. She is expected to testify against her former partner for several days. Continue reading...

Cassie Ventura claims ‘physical abuse’ from ex Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in sex-trafficking trial

The Blooming Art Show: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/12/t...

Went to see Dr. Kevin Browne's A Sense of Arrival yesterday and was blown away by the exhibit. Today is its last day at Medulla Art Gallery: www.thiscaribbeanspace.com/2025/05/07/k...

Sinners is signicant part of Ryan's manifesto on how to create a portfolio of radical art. His pan-African outlook is revolutionary.

I am local media. We have not created a space for the reporting and analysis of our art, music, customs and history even though we know the people are hungry for the information.

UWI has been doing the Cultural reporting, analysing work we need to make sense of who we are. Their department of Literary Cultural and Communications Studies hosted a talk from Steam to Soca featuring Lady Lava and Squeezy Rankin. thiscaribbeanspace.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/f...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #16140:
Don't assume that your desk is where all your writing happens. 90% of the process of creation happens elsewhere. Use whatever time you have. Thinking time; dreaming time; observing time; analyzing time. All this time can be part of your work. Don't waste it.

bought disney paint by numbers coloring book, set of acrylic markers, started binging lost and suddenly my social media screen time went down to 30 minutes a day and I feel sane again 💁‍♀️

Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online He was a self-educated genius whose groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of physics and chemistry electrified the world…

Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein

Marco Rubio’s Policies Might Shut the Door to People Like His Grandfather (Published 2016) Under the stricter screening Senator Marco Rubio now supports, his grandfather would most likely have been deported, depriving him of knowing the man he has called his mentor and closest boyhood frien...

Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.”

Oh. The. Irony.

Playing a Traditional Mas In a Modern Carnival A lone figure steps into the middle of a Belmont Street, signaling the start of the procession. He wears what looks like a floor-length dress; it’s made with dried banana leaves. He has a bea…

Playing a traditional mas in a modern Carnival. Meet the people innovating within a festival ensuring some of its most enduring customs continue to have a space: thiscaribbeanspace.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/p...

There are videos of Carnival in Rio featuring Orisha floats, and my word. Stunning! If I saw them in person I would have fully been in tears. Just gorgeous.

A really special day!
He kindly chatted and autographed my CD liner afterward. Wonderful memories

Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

Is too tired to sleep a thing, cause I might be too tired to sleep. 😭

This Carnival was real nice allyuh. Real nice.

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