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1. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Nigel Telesford

   Teejay applauds Trinibad peace push (opens the original)

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   Ja­maican dance­hall star Tee­jay (Tim­oy Jones) is ap­plaud­ing the in­creas­ing­ly vis­i­ble peace move­ment among Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Trini­bad artistes, say­ing the pub­lic dis­play of uni­ty he wit­nessed dur­ing his re­cent vis­it rep­re­sents pre­cise­ly the kind of evo­lu­tion he has been ad­vo­cat­ing for with­in the cul­ture. The Drift and Air­plane Mode singer was in Trinidad last week­end and wit­nessed for­mer Trini­bad ri­vals, Kman (Kashif Sankar) and Plumpy Boss (Mescach Em­m

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2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Nigel Telesford

   PM to audience at Miss Afro T&T Pageant (opens the original)

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   Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the in­au­gur­al Miss Afro Trinidad and To­ba­go Pageant as a fit­ting cel­e­bra­tion of African her­itage, re­mem­brance and na­tion­al iden­ti­ty, com­mend­ing Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin for in­tro­duc­ing what she be­lieves can be­come a last­ing fix­ture on the coun­try’s African Eman­ci­pa­tion cal­en­dar. Ad­dress­ing a stand­ing-room-on­ly au­di­ence of more than 700 pa­trons at the South

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3. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Nigel Telesford

   Stay Steady: A gospel voice against the noise (opens the original)

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   At a time when anx­i­ety, so­cial me­dia val­i­da­tion and the pres­sure to con­form are shap­ing an en­tire gen­er­a­tion, Ja­maican gospel pow­er­house Kevin Down­swell be­lieves the Caribbean des­per­ate­ly needs to re­dis­cov­er some­thing far more valu­able than pop­u­lar­i­ty—iden­ti­ty. The in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed gospel artiste, evan­ge­list, pro­duc­er, au­thor and re­cent re­cip­i­ent of Ja­maica’s Or­der of Dis­tinc­tion says too many peo­ple have al­lowed likes, com­ments and

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4. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Nigel Telesford

   Yaksta’s 'The Microphone Saved Me' turns conviction into conversation (opens the original)

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   Ja­maican reg­gae artiste Yak­s­ta has of­fi­cial­ly re­leased his sopho­more al­bum, The Mi­cro­phone Saved Me, de­liv­er­ing what may be his most per­son­al and un­com­pro­mis­ing body of work to date. The 15-track project ar­rives af­ter months of an­tic­i­pa­tion and fol­lows a string of sin­gles that have re­in­forced the “Bush Lawd’s” rep­u­ta­tion as one of reg­gae’s most out­spo­ken voic­es. For those who fol­lowed Yak­s­ta’s re­cent me­dia ap­pear­ances, the al­bum’s di­rec­tion should

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