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The calypso fraternity has been plunged into mourning with the passing of Carlyle ?Jazzy? Pantin, owner and manager of the Calypso Revue tent.

Rhythm and Blues maestro Lionel Richie billed as the major attraction on this year's Sumfest showed exactly why he considered to be an international superstar.

Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest's Dancehall Night, the first of the festival's three main shows at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex, was a picture of professionalism, resulting in patrons enjoying a night's worth of top-class performances in what was probably one of the best-run stage shows so far this year.

The trademark dreadlocks may flow from a wiry nimbus of gray hair. And the bristling beard may sport more salt than pepper.

Haunted by the social and economic consequences to the banana economies of the Caribbean when the European Union (EU) changed its banana purchasing regime, this region?s sugar producing countries are now gearing for a tough battle to prevent massive reductions from next year in the price paid for our sugar on the European market.

Nine sophisticated guns, a hand grenade, ten blocks of cocaine and more than 300 rounds of assorted ammunition were seized by police who raided a house in Rousillac, south Trinidad, late Wednesday.

Tonight the Catherine Hall venue for the sixth staging of Reggae Sumfest will come alive after hectic final preparations earlier in the week. Dancehall night kicks off the three days of stage shows with International nights one and two tomorrow and Saturday. All roads and even the airway lead to Sumfest for these three days.

A 14-year-old girl of Long Bridge in Airy Castle, St. Andrew was charged by the police on Monday with infanticide after she reportedly burnt her newborn baby to death and dumped the body into a riverbed close to where she lived.

Noel Lochan smiled shyly with happiness as Health Minister John Rahael visited him at the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday and promised to give him a job in the health sector.

A lockout of workers at a Caribbean brewery has been temporarily resolved. An agreement to end the lockout at one of the regions breweries was reached yesterday.