Keino's write

TO   say that Heather Headley 's concert at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) on Saturday was amazing would be a gross understatement. To also say that you had to be there to experience it yourself would be too cliched.   In order to properly describe Headley's superb talent, and ability to connect with her audience, one would have to pull out all the superlatives you can find...and that is not an exaggeration.  It was an emotional roller coaster filled with nostalgia for both the Tony and Grammy award winner and her audience.   The concert, aptly titled "Home", was produced by BG Trinidad & Tobago to raise funds for the Foundation for the Enhancement and Enrichment of Life (FEEL) and United Way of Trinidad and Tobago (UWTT).      This was Headley's first full-length performance in Trinidad since migrating with her family from their Barataria home to the United States in 1989.   She made a brie...

Why is it that when people dare to speak up for their rights they are made to feel they've committed a wrong ? I asked myself this question after having an encounter with a taxi driver this evening. I left work and was too late to catch either the last sailing of the water taxi or the PTSC Coach from Port of Spain to San Fernando so I had no choice but to resort to the conventional taxis. Arrived on the taxi stand and met a ton-load of people and no taxis available.  I was joined by a friend and she and I stood there talking for a while until, eventually, a seven-seater taxi pulls up on the stand.  Said driver gets out, and as some of them do, said he was not making the return trip right away.  He proceeds to gallery himself for a while walking up and down until he indicated that he was ready. Now I should have figured that I would have had some problems with this particular driver because my friend told me she knows him to be one "who does buss style"....

Trevor Rhone was one of the Caribbean’s most well loved and appreciated playwrights and directors. His first big hit was 'Smile Orange' which ran for 245 performances forty years ago when it was first performed in Jamaica. Just prior to his passing in September 2009 Rhone was in discussion with Trinidadian producers to stage an updated version of the smash hit. Now close to two years later, in honour of Rhone’s passing Frontline ...Theatre Productions and Scarlett Project will bring to the newly reopened Little Carib Theatre an exciting remounting of 'Smile Orange'. 'Smile Orange' has been judged “a savage little comedy” (Sunday Telegraph), "a rollicking slapstick satire” (Washington Star). The Jamaican Gleaner exudes: “In the warm afterglow of the production when smiles come easily, if you see Trevor Rhone tell him he still has the last laugh". A genuinely hilarious politicized farce, a satire on tourism that centers on a hotel waiter, Ringo S...