Hyatt Among Several Hotel Projects Carded for New Year
The long-mooted Hyatt and several other hotel projects are to get underway in the New Year. Dr. William Duguid, senior minister in the Prime Minister’s office in charge of Infrastructural Projects and Town Planning Matters tells Starcom Network News the projects will create hundreds of jobs in the construction phases and thousands more when they […]
Search Party Locates Missing Man
An elderly man who had gone missing just before Christmas has been found by a search party in a bushy area some distance from his Workman’s, St. George home. Fire Service Divisional Officer, Wayne Vaughn, led the Fire Service rescue team that responded after the search party alerted them around 4 45 yesterday afternoon that […]
Mottley Pays Tribute to Black Stalin
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has joined in the tributes to the late Trinidadian calypsonian Leroy “Black Stalin” Calliste who has passed away at the age of 81. Prime Minister Mottley, in a post on her Facebook page, speaks of her love for Black Stalin’s music which she describes as always rooted in truth, […]
Trinidadian Calypso Veteran Black Stalin Dies
Veteran calypsonian Leroy “Black Stalin” Calliste has passed away at the age of 81. The Trinidadian won the country’s National Calypso Monarch title for the first time in 1979 with the songs Caribbean Man and Play One. He would repeat his victory in 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1995. Black Stalin received the Hummingbird Medal (Silver) […]