CARNIVAL: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS
title on Fantastic Friday with
the song “Stage Gone Bad.”
Brian London regained his
title as Ex-Tempo King beating
former 10-time winner Winston
“Gypsy” Peters into second
place.
In the National Panorama
finals held on Saturday, Feb.22
Caribbean L 46 ife, Feb. 28-Mar. 5, 2020
at the Queens Park Savannah,
Port of Spain, Trinidad Desperadoes
won the competition.
Here are the results:
1st. Desperadoes
2nd. BP Renegades, Massy
Trinidad All Stars (tie)
4th. HADCO Phase II Pan
Groove
5th. Shell Invaders
6th. CAL Skiffle
7th. Republic Bank Exodus,
First Citizens Supernovas (tie)
9th. T&TEC Tropical Angel
Harps
10th. RBC Redemption
Soundsetters
11th. NLCB Fonclaire
Queen of Carnival, Roxanne Omalo with her portrayal of “Mother Dragons - Keeper of Light” at Dimache Gras show on
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at the final at the Queen’s
Park Savannah, Port of Spain
Trinidad.
With her first song,
“Obeah,” Lyons, dressed in a
black and red dress with a
black hat, sand about people
working Obeah to keep people
down and steal husbands,
“instead of working hard and
getting you own bread, they
using obeah to get your life
instead”.
She also sang about politicians
using obeah including
the ones who robbed the
Treasury but have not “made a
jail as yet.”
It was her second song,
“Megan My Dear,” which started
with a skit of Queen Elizabeth
11 and Prince Harry discussing
“black meat,” which
delighted the crowd and got
the judges nod.
She sang how Harry gave
up for “black meat” of his wife
Meghan, which was reminiscent
off Sparrow’s calypso “Ah
Never Eat ah White Meat Yet.”
There were five women
among the 12 finalists in the
competition.
Lyons joins five other
women who have won the
Calypso Monarch over the past
three decades.
In the Panorama competition,
WITO Desperadoes was
crowned champion steelband
becoming the most decorated
in history with 12 Panorama
titles. The band previous
wins were in 1966, 1970, 1976,
1977, 1983, 1991,1994, 1999
and 2016.
The band beat soca star
Naila Blackman’s “More
Sokah” to get the judges nod
for the title.
In the International Power
Soca Monarch held at the
Queen’s Savannah on Saturday
night it took veteran
soca star Neil “Iwer’ George
13 years to come back and win
the title.
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ful doctor in Jamaica working
alongside Mawuli Gavor
of Ghana, Christopher Mac-
Farland of Jamaica (his dad),
Alison Hinds of Barbados (his
mom) and Shontelle Layne of
Barbados (his sister).
“This drama sees the family
torn apart between the
Caribbean and Africa and the
discoveries that ensue,” she
added.
Watson-Lorde said “Joseph”
is “now ready for the various
markets and has successfully
begun marketing and distribution
in West Africa and the
Caribbean, and was recently
picked up by AMC Cinemas to
be screened in the USA.”
“SBS desires to screen the
film to the Barbadian diaspora
and the wider Caribbean and
West African diaspora in the
US through the AMC screening
opportunity,” she said.
The scheduled dates for this
one-week screening is Feb. 28
– March 6.
In the film’s synopsis,
Watson-Lorde said Joseph
King is a successful, young
doctor in Jamaica, being
groomed by his parents, also
doctors, to take over the family’s
private hospital.
“He is hardworking and
popular with everyone,” she
said. “However, he is haunted
by childhood memories of his
beloved grandfather in Accompong,
the Maroon village from
which his family originated.”
Watson-Lorde said Joseph’s
father, Christopher King, is
dismissive of any idea that
connects Jamaicans with Africa.
“He tries to steer Joseph
away from ideas of going ‘back
to Africa’ because he considers
it a backward step for modern,
successful people like his family,”
she said. “Christopher
doesn’t share his son’s affection
for his own father and
wants nothing to do with the
‘bush medicine’ he was famous
for amongst the Maroons.
“Joseph’s yearning for Africa
creates family conflict, further
exacerbated by his plastic surgeon
sister Dahlia’s jealousy
over his position as sole heir to
the family’s medical empire,”
she added.
Watson-Lorde said Joseph’s
curiosity about Africa is fueled
even more by Kweku, his
friend from medical school,
who would boast about his
homeland Ghana.
“Kweku’s stories contradict
what Joseph hears and sees
about Africa in the media,
making him even more determined
to make his own sojourn
to Africa,” she said. “A serious
tragedy, a chance meeting and
an unfulfilled promise drive
Joseph towards an uncertain
destiny.
“Will Joseph find what he’s
searching for?” she asked. “Or,
were his grandfather’s dreams
based on myths and fables that
have no place in present-day
Africa? And, will a trip to the
motherland be enough to satisfy
his longing for an identity
that has so far eluded him?”
Over the last 10 years,
Watson-Lorde said SBS has
produced seven feature-length
films.
She said SBS has toured the
Caribbean and internationally
with these films.
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Trinidad and Tobago’s Road
March and Soca Monarch
King Neil “Iwer” George.
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