Here are the finalists for the Digicel International Power Soca Monarch and Play Whe Groovy Soca Monarch Competitions 2012. The Trindad 2012 Soca Monarch Finalists will get set to take the stage for Fantastic Friday, February 17th 2012 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
Play Whe Groovy Soca Monarch Finalists Digicel lnternational Power Soca Finalists
1. Kees Dieffenthaller -(Defending Monarch)
2. Destra Garcia
3. Dexter Stewart – Blaxx
4. Erphaan Alves
5. JW & Blaze
6. Kerwin Du Bois
7. Kris Persad – KI
8. Machel Montano
9. Nadia Batson
10. Patrice Roberts
11. Roderick Gordon – Chucky
12. Rodney LeBlanc – Benjai
13. Shal Marshall
14. Terrin Callender – Super Jigga TC 1.Machel Montano – (Defending Monarch)
2. Delroy Hooper – Fireman (St. Vincent)
3. Destra Garcia
4. Devon Samuel – Prophet Benjamin
5. Dexter Stewart – Blaxx
6. Erphaan Alves
7. Gerald Lewis – Hard Knoxx (Antigua)
8. Marvin Davis – Swappi
9. Michael Mercer (Barbados)
10. Nadia Batson
11. Neil Iwer George
12. Shurwayne Winchester
Trinidad 2012 Soca Monarch Finalists courtesy of socamonarch.net
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Bacchanalist and Other Songs On Antilles Riddim Played On Pan
As if Bacchanalist and all the other songs on the Antilles Riddim couldn’t get any sweeter…listen to Sagicor Exodus playing Kerwin Dubois’ Bacchanlist and Machel Montano’s Vibes Cyah Done on some pan.
Close Connections Carnival Foreplay 2012 does a very good job no scratch that a helluva a job of getting you in the mood for Trinidad and Tobago’s 2012 Carnival which is literally right around the corner. You definitely want to download this 2012 Soca mix. They went in.
You can preview the mix courtesy of themixfeed.com before you download. For mixes like Close Connections Carnival Foreplay 2012 be sure to check out themixfeed.com
Clarks Desert Boot Ska Edition is set to be released shortly celebrating Ska which started in Jamaica back in the 60′s. The genre of music was then adopted by British Mods and Punks in the 70′s which helped in the genre’s worldwide popularity.
Clarks Originals are paying their respects to Britain’s 2 Tone Ska era by launching the Clarks Original Desert Boot Ska Edition which is part of their British Rock Royalty collection.
The shoe is is constructed with a black and white checkerboard pattern on the uppers, which happens to be a pattern that is strongly associated with the Ska movement. Black suede material makes up the forefoot and tongue, which accompanies the Desert Boot classic crepe soles. In addition a custom British Rock Royalty hang tag that features the Union Jack and a few musical instruments is included which adds a little extra to the the design.
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Solamon Plans to Build Largest Caribbean Solar Farm in Jamaica
The Canada-based Solamon company announced its plan to build the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean in Jamaica, at an estimated cost of $450 million.
The programme aims to improve the country’s energy infrastructure and attract additional investment in green technologies.
“In order to implement a solution of this magnitude, several Parishes are being considered as future homes of one of three 50-acre plots that, when conjoined, will provide the Jamaican people with 60 megawatts of clean electricity,” said Ainsley Brown, senior vice president at Solamon. “This programme represents a comprehensive approach to renewable energy development, energy diversification, job creation and training for the 21st century.”
In December, the government announced that the use of alternative in energies in Jamaica had nearly doubled since 2010.
Jamaica has a growing solar movement, according to Roger Chang, President of the Jamaica Solar Energy Association.
Mr. Sizwe C is sure to get some serious cross over appeal with this one. We have had this on repeat since we first heard it.
Positioned to work with some of the most respected and talented producers of the genre, Sizwe is set to take the airwaves by storm with his smash hit “Hands in the Air” (H.I.A) written by Peter Wildfire and produced by Jus Shane.
If you love Soca music, then you love Sizwe. When he opens his mouth and lets his vocal instrument take over, you will have your “Hands in the Air” for years to come!
Sizwe C Hands In The Air is produced by JusShane Productions, Mixed & Mastered by Precision Productions, Written by Peter Wildfire Noel.
Kimba Sorzano who is also one of the semi finalists in the 2012 Play Whe Groovy Soca Monarch Competition, releases his official video for Over You on the Maserati riddim. This is what you call sweet groovy Soca.
Kimba Sorzano, as his aboriginal name suggests is no less than a burning Flame, blazing the trail where ever he goes igniting your passion for music and crooning his way into your heart.
Born on the 24th of June 1984, Kimba sorzano grew up in the urban town of San Juan, Trinidad and from and early age music has courted him shaping his experiences almost as a potter to clay, culminating into this refreshing blend of dance infused pop tracks with caribbean undertones, some may even call it caribbean contemporary.
Though his skill had been honed as a young calypsonian while coming through school competitions, it was not until 2006 when he exploded onto the scene on the Synergy Soca Star Stage, did the Public at large bare witness to his astounding presence.
As a Singer/Song writer Kimba Sorzano prides himself on his clever Melodies and ingenious writing. With Soca music as his base he springboards bringing to you a sound unlike any other yet one that is hauntingly familiar. Sorzano writes all his material and has recently begun to write for industry Giants like Machel Montano.
The Sorzano Experience, as he calls it, is one specially prepared and concocted to bring women to a slow simmer. His charged lyrics and his sex appeal goes unmatched and he takes up residence in women’s hearts everywhere.
Kimba Sorzano is the complete package. He is an artist who is multifaceted, who is unafraid to let us into his world Via his music.
He knows a thing or two about the bottom, now he’s taking you straight to the top. Buckle your seat belts as we embark upon the “Sorzano Experience”
Here are some behind the scenes footage.
Kimba Sorzano Over You Official Video directed by Kern Rose for Kern Rose Films and Liquid Matter Stylist Keisha Als
Kimba Sorzano’s bio and image courtesy of his Facebook fan page.
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An overhaul to Barbados’ agriculture sector is long overdue, according to prominent agriculturalist Dr Chelston Brathwaite.
Brathwaite said Barbados is still operating a model inherited from the pre-independence period.
“That model has run its course,” he said. “We have changed education, health, [and] our infrastructure but we have not changed the agricultural sector.”
It’s a view shared by Agriculture Minister Dr David Estwick, who said that the sector in its current form was “stymied and constrained.”
Agriculture has remained between 3.5 and 3.7 percent of GDP in the country for the last 15 years, the Minister said.
“I believe we can make agriculture a viable and even greater contributor to the Gross Domestic Product,” he said. “For too long, there has been a view that agriculture is dead or dying but … I believe we can make the sector a vibrant, financially viable entity.”
Estwick was speaking to members of the country’s new National Agricultural Commission, which held its first meeting on Friday.
Secondary schools across Antigua and Barbuda will get campus-wide Wi-Fi internet as part of the government’s Technology for Education 20/20 Initiative.
As part of the programme, LIME will install Wi-Fi access points on all public and private secondary school compounds.
On Monday, representatives from the Ministry of Information and Lime Antigua Ltd held a meeting with school principals to discuss the rollout of the plan.
“I am very convinced, having spent a lot of time studying this, that having students and staff across the Internet can be a great equalizer in an increasingly competitive world,” said Information Minister Dr Edmond Mansoor. “We want to stay competitive … and any child starting from grade 1 who is not on the Internet is at a serious disadvantage.”
At this stage, the pilot project will begin at the Baptist Academy of Antigua and may begin next week.
Antigua To Put Wi-Fi in High Schools courtesy of caribjournal.com
First Sleep School Opens In Grenada In The Caribbean
I’m not alone in having trouble sleeping. When stress levels are sky-high, technology has us on call 24/7 and working parents struggle to fit everything into their day, it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t.
Unsurprisingly, 75 per cent of the workforce gets less than the recommended eight hours of sleep a night, according to a study by the Mental Health Foundation. Most of us will experience transient insomnia (a short bout of disturbed sleep lasting less than a week or two) at some point in our lives, caused by anything from stress, pregnancy or bereavement – or a chemical, such as excess alcohol. But when it becomes difficult to initiate or maintain sleep for two to four weeks, this is defined as acute insomnia.
‘How you behave in response to sleep determines your ability to sleep,’ says insomnia specialist Dr Guy Meadows. ‘Ask a normal sleeper what they do to sleep and they will say “nothing”. Ask an insomniac and they will give you a long list, including warm milk, hot baths and lavender on the pillow.’
Meadows, who thinks the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to sleep problems isn’t working, is pioneering a new technique called acceptance and commitment therapy. ‘My approach to insomnia combines a sense of increased awareness, acceptance and a non- judgmental attitude,’ he says. ‘It’s about accepting then letting go of your insomnia in order to allow your brain’s natural ability to sleep to emerge by itself.’
Meadows runs a practice in Britain and has just launched Sleep School in the Caribbean (www.thesleepschool.org). My first thought was: ‘Why do I need to go halfway around the world to learn how to sleep?’ But when you add up the things we might do to relax and get a better night’s sleep – a massage, yoga and exercise classes, and possibly a sleep workshop – then factor in the cost of a week away, that cost soon adds up. Which is why the idea of Meadows’s Sleep School at a well-being retreat makes sense.
The Sleep School is run at the luxury holistic resort of La Source in Grenada – where it’s free to guests. The hotel’s philosophy is geared around wellbeing and relaxation, and guests can enjoy hourly activities and a free treatment each day.
‘What draws me to this type of holiday are the masterclasses,’ says Sally Lloyd, 35, a sales consultant from Maidenhead. ‘When I found out there was a Sleep School here it was a bonus as I suffer from transient insomnia.’
Shark Burgers At Trini-Flavored Island Burger In East Flatbush Brooklyn
For $9.50, their shark burger will make you feel like you’re on vacation in Trinidad.
That’s what the two sisters who own Island Burger had in mind when they opened the East Flatbush fast-food restaurant at 915 Utica Ave. 18 months ago.
Picture Maracas Beach, where shark sandwiches are sold in huts right on the sand. Or Port of Spain, where sidewalk vendors serve hamburgers with a slice of pineapple, garlic sauce and cole slaw heaped on top.
“Shark is beach food,” said Linette Beckles, 34, who with her big sister Tracy Agarrat, 40 owns the takeout joint and six-seat eatery that dishes up a boneless filet of the fearsome fish.
The restaurant’s three chefs turn the terror of the deep into a tasty morsel by seasoning it for 12 hours before frying it and topping it with chadon beni — a sauce made of a pungent herb, culantro — tamarind sauce, cole slaw, lettuce and tomato.
After Beckles and her boyfriend were wowed by burgers they bought at a street stand during a visit to Port of Spain, she returned home to Mill Basin and told her sister to forget about the clothing store they’d talked about opening.
“Let’s sell burgers and fast food made the Trini way,” she said to y Agarrat of Crown Heights.
There are scads of West Indian restaurants in Central Brooklyn competing for customers with roti and peas and rice.
But the sibs couldn’t find anyone doing Trini burgers, and thought they could make a go of it.
To save money, they rented a storefront with a stove and other restaurant equipment the previous tenant left behind.
They’d worked in Manhattan food businesses — including a decade Agarrat spent as a restaurant manager for food-industry bigwig Stephen Hanson’s BR Guest.
New Book Released On Traditional Medicine And Women Healers In Trinidad
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Anthropologist Dr Kumar Mahabir will be launching his new book, Traditional Medicine and Women Healers in Trinidad, on Saturday evening at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
The 212-page book discusses the relationship between traditional healers and modern healthcare practitioners in Trinidad and Tobago. It focuses on folk masseuses, and the new mothers and newborns they treat.
The study is divided into three major chapters:
Chapter 1 explores the demographics of masseuses, their training, activity levels, remuneration, relationship with others, and types of disorders they treat.
Chapter 2 examines the care of the new mother with respect to seclusion and pollution, special foods, “setting” the womb back in place, herbal baths, and the chatti [thanksgiving ceremony].
Chapter 3 highlights the care of the newborn with regard to breast milk, neonatal jaundice, dew and evil elements, thrush and heat rash, and infant massage.
The two medical systems are presented in the context of racial, ethnic, class and gender dynamics which give rise to issues of power and control.
Traditional Medicine and Women Healers in Trinidad is located in the political-economic context of the Third World, which has a history of dependency on foreign goods and services rooted in the plantation economy.
The book also discusses the implications of the study for contemporary primary health care.
Mahabir is an assistant professor in the Centre for Education Programmes at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Florida and is the author of eight books, including two national bestsellers Caribbean East Indian Recipes and Medicinal and Edible Plants used by East Indians of Trinidad and Tobago.
Not everything scholar knows he/she learn from teacher. Experience is gained from everyone and every situation you encounter. Everything isn’t found only in the classroom but in the daily activities of our lives.
We really haven’t heard anything from Farmer Nappy that didn’t sound good and staying in true form, Farmer Nappy releases the You Make Me official video. We are loving the quality of the videos that are coming out of the region.
Farmer Nappy You Make Me Official Video
TEXT CODE FOR GROOVY IS FARM 4678
DIRECTED BY PETER C LEWIS, EDITED BY COWIN THORPE, Cam:Gabriel Ti. Nagee/Declan Leeloo
