In this episode of Morning Edition, we are joined by Mr. Nigel Phillips, Newly appointed president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to discuss issues in tCenter for Displaced Persons located in the parking lot of NIPDEC.
Theirs is a century-old organization in about 140 countries. Founded by the Catholic Church in Paris in 1833. The Society of Vincent de Paul Trinidad and Tobago was incorporated 24 years later.
Since then they have taken care of the needs of the most needy in society, rent, shelter, food friendship or prayer.
Society does a lot of work with the socially displaced. We are now joined by newly appointed President Nigel Phillip.
Mr. Phillip thank you for joining us.
They are with us now live on the square Touch it Johnson (double tenor section leader/player)Emmanuel Joseph (past player/captain) and Sheldon Peters (2023 Arranger).
They are part of the BP Renegades youth group and will talk to us about some of their plans for this carnival season, the amount of hard work and hours put in, what their hopes are this season.
They will also be playing some music for us in the pan to get you into that Carnival Spirit.
WinerBoy Entertainment has been around for 10 years doing various events across the country and different types of events throughout the year. This year they will host the all-inclusive celebration of BRUNCH, Cocktails & Bites. Organizer Arvindar Rampersad joins us to tell us more.
Let’s chat now with internationally acclaimed and highly respected, Olatunji Yearwood brings the heat of Trinidad to audiences around the world.
On stage, Ola’s enterprising performance is driven by his boundless spirit and energy – with dynamic style, soulful movement and cultural appeal.
Today he’s going to share with us some of his plans for the carnival season and we’re going to enjoy some of his music because he’s going to give us a little performance later in the interview.
Sticking with our Soca artists, this time we’re joined by Roderick “Chuck” Gordon, a two-time National Calypso Monarch winner. He wrote himself into calypso history on Dimanche Gras 2015, becoming only the sixth calypsonian to win back-to-back titles in nearly a century.
In 2014, he made history by being the second youngest winner of the National Calypso Monarch competition. He repeated this success in 2015 with a tongue-in-cheek political commentary entitled “Rose” and a patriotic call for national unity in “Besoj”. He has also branched out from his childhood Kaiso roots to establish equally strong credentials in the Soca arena.
Also joining us is ROGER “PATCH” JOSEPH. Patch is one of Trinidad’s most versatile artists, singing soca, groovy soca and most recently soca chutney. He started singing in 1999 with a monster hit called “Comess”. Success followed success with “Macomere”, “Misbehavin”, “De Tail Gone”, “Calling me Name” and for 2k9 “Rum & Roti” just to name a few.
Patch hails from the deep South of Cedros and is a prolific writer, penning songs for artists such as Byron Lee, Singing Sandra, Kurt Allen and Oscar B & Leon Coldero to name a few.
If you’re heading out this season and in a hurry, or just want some simple but effective makeup, check this out for an event or lime… you’re in the right place, because today we’re live on set with Nakasha Roberts, a makeup artist with 9 years of experience under his belt. She also has her own make up base line and her brand is Kasmeticz.
Today she’s not only going to tell us about her brand and simple ticks to make you look amazing, but she’s going to demonstrate for us and we’ve got a pattern.
Our production assistant Sharla Kistow will be sitting in the chair for us today.
This brings us to the end of Friday Morning Edition, I am your host Urvashi Tiwari Roopnarine wishing you all a nice weekend.
It’s Friday everyone! So be safe out there. WI invite you to join us this evening for ME PRIME. We leave you with this imagician in a beautiful carnival costume of white, gold and turquoise feathers, flanked by two ladies in red.
