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Wesley Gibbings
Caribbean Broadcasting Union
57th Annual General Assembly
Georgetown, Guyana
Some of us have had the time, patience, and interest to repeatedly consider the late Merchant’s 1985 suggestion that the steelpan might have at that time been “in danger.”
Now, we have lived long enough to have put such an assertion to relatively comfortable rest. For, the young people who played then and who, some proposed, were not turning up in the audience, are no...
So, World Steelpan Day was observed yesterday, and we are in the midst of Steelpan Month.
By now we should all know that the instrument is much more than the music it delivers. That we frequently need to step back and ask ourselves: What in the manner in which we have clumsily begun to assemble a nation complete with intrigue, eternal conflict, and chronic confusion, ...
One of the mistakes we make in assessing the value of the CARICOM project is to regard socio-cultural solidarity as its sole asset.
Such cohesion matters, certainly. It underpins regional integration everywhere, providing a foundation for collective action. But integration aimed at common development requires far more. It demands practical cooperation, particularly am...
It is good that we turn annually to the attempted coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago – often reduced to the shorthand “events of 1990” - to recall the epochal physical, emotional, and social violence experienced 36 years ago.
Through the haze of fast-moving time, there remains much to address from a space occupied by fact, trauma, and nurtured myths.
Only once...