NFNarissa Fraser

1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Narissa Fraser

   Steelpan, industry legends celebrated at Stars and Steel (opens the original)

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   weet steel­pan mu­sic filled the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) on Sun­day evening as the Caribbean Mu­sic Awards cel­e­brat­ed T&T’s na­tion­al in­stru­ment and icons of the fra­ter­ni­ty. The Stars and Steel con­cert and award show con­clud­ed the awards’ three-day-long cel­e­bra­tions and re­gion­al de­but. The MITTCO En­sem­ble treat­ed at­ten­dees to med­leys span­ning mul­ti­ple gen­res, in­clud­ing so­ca, reg­gae, dance­hall, pop, soul and more. Led by artis­tic di

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2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Narissa Fraser

   T&T entrepreneur earns 2026 Canadian Cannabis Tourism Awards nomination (opens the original)

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   Af­ter more than a decade of cre­at­ing a move­ment to help re­move the stig­ma around cannabis use, lo­cal en­tre­pre­neur Quilin “Em­press Q” Achat and her brand, Stay Calm It’s a Plant, are re­ceiv­ing in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion, of­fi­cial­ly se­cur­ing a nom­i­na­tion for the 2026 Cana­di­an Cannabis Tourism Awards. Launched in 2012, Stay Calm It’s a Plant be­gan as an ac­tivism and ed­u­ca­tion­al dri­ve to spread the mes­sage about the ben­e­fits of mar­i­jua­na. Achat re­called star

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3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Narissa Fraser

   How Keagon Smith captures comedy, culture behind the lens (opens the original)

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   Lo­cal video­g­ra­ph­er and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Keagon Smith has helped show­case T&T’s cul­ture and make scores of peo­ple laugh over the past few years. While he may be best known as the cam­era­man and video ed­i­tor for co­me­di­an Ger­vail “Jr Lee” Lemo, he’s that and so much more. Smith’s call­ing to cam­era work came un­ex­pect­ed­ly. The 29-year-old Point Fortin na­tive re­called ini­tial­ly be­ing in­ter­est­ed in an IT ca­reer dur­ing his days at Chan­der­nagore Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry

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4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Narissa Fraser

   Black Sherif and Full Blown unite Ghana and T&T on ‘Love Again’ (opens the original)

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   The mu­si­cal and cul­tur­al con­nec­tion be­tween Africa and T&T con­tin­ues to flour­ish as Ghana­ian su­per­star Black Sherif (Mo­hammed Is­mail Shar­rif) col­lab­o­rates with Full Blown on one of his lat­est tracks, Love Again. Ex­plor­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, heart­break and hope, the groovy tune is now avail­able across all dig­i­tal mu­sic stream­ing plat­forms. Shar­rif is Ghana’s most-streamed artiste, boast­ing more than five bil­lion glob­al streams across dig­i­tal mu­sic plat­forms.

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5. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Narissa Fraser

   12-year-old percussionist crowned 2026 Talent Pot champion (opens the original)

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   Twelve-year-old per­cus­sion­ist Ta­fari Lalitte is the 2026 Tal­ent Pot cham­pi­on af­ter wow­ing the judges with a blend of the rhythms that move T&T. The in­au­gur­al kids’ tal­ent com­pe­ti­tion, host­ed by Dot Ten En­ter­tain­ment and found­ed by Terneille Samuel Her­bert, was held on Au­gust 14 at Queen’s Hall, Port-of-Spain. A to­tal of 15 con­tes­tants, aged sev­en to 12, served the au­di­ence their best plat­ters from the tal­ent pot in dis­ci­plines in­clud­ing dance, spo­ken word, mon

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