Youth Tag

I would like to invite you to the Tropicalfete’s Countdown. Featuring Live performances of Daria, Nadira Norjahan , Samuel Archer, Tropicalfete Steel Pan Ensemble and much more. Tropicalfete’s Award of Excellence 2015 will be presented to Calypsonian Dr. Witty. Some of the top songs of the year and holiday songs will be spun by Selector Richard. Book now and enjoy great food, remarkable dance and music with great Artists Come and support the Youth and a wonderful cultural organization. See you on Dec 20 and don’t forget to Invite yourRead More

Multi Genre Superstar Busy Signal was all smiles and shining with the success of the 2020 Gala held at the Grand Bahia Principe in Jamaica! Raising money for the Busy 2020 Helping Hands Foundation, a foundation dedicated to reaching children and young people to tackle issues such as violence, poverty and lack of health care access, Busy Signal brought together entertainers as well as community stakeholders who collectively agreed that together, they can make a difference. Performances by Christopher Martin, DMajor, Exco Levi, and Ikaya demonstrated the will of youngerRead More

Award Winning Young Adult Novel Musical Youth to be Distributed Throughout the Caribbean BASSETERRE, St. Kitts. Teen readers in the Caribbean and the world will have one more book to read this week when the award-winning Musical Youth by Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne C. Hillhouse is released. The book, which placed second in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, follows one eventful summer in the life of a group of Antiguan teenagers. According to the book’s blurb, guitarist Zahara and Shaka, a musical genius find love and challengesRead More

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He says even if his logical mind were to tell him to give up on chasing his musical dream, his heart would never allow it. Hayden Peters, known best as Therapy- a Caledonia, Morvant, Trinidad native continues to follow his heart. Currently, he’s doing all that’s necessary to promote himself, in the same breath admitting that getting people at home in T&T, to pay closer attention and understand what he’s about, has been the biggest challenge. In the past few weeks he’s been hard at work Juelio NuRead More

NEW YORK, NY (15 May, 2013) – The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is set to unleash the creativity of youth on Toronto during Caribbean Week in Canada which runs from 26-28 June, 2013. The CTO has announced an “Advertise the Caribbean” contest targeting youth up to the age of 21 from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The “Advertise the Caribbean” contest challenges youth to create an original poster advertisement for any of the over 30 CTO member countries. It is open to students in the GTA in three categories: JuniorRead More

Jamaican student O’Brian Lewis has emerged winner of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)’s Tourism Youth Congress, held here yesterday as part of the State of the Industry Conference. Lewis, of Oberlin High School, put on a strong and energetic performance to lead a group of exceptional students from CTO member countries in the debate that mimics a meeting of the CTO Council of Ministers and Commissioners of Tourism. In second position was Christopher Morgan of Harrison College in Barbados, with Kirano Jivani of Learning Unlimited Preparatory School in St. MaartenRead More