De­spite the on­go­ing SoE in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Tri­ni man on the street just can't seem to keep that lim­ing bug un­der con­trol. With cur­few hours now run­ning from 11 pm to 4 am, week­ends in­clud­ed, the lo­cal pop­u­lace has been mak­ing good of day­time ac­tiv­i­ties; among these the beach. Last Sun­day, beach lovers made their way to Mara­cas Bay on the north coast as is some­what the norm on a hot Sun­day, but this time, the vibe was seem­ing­ly dif­fer­ent.

In the air, just op­po­site to Sam's Bar, there was a loud and invit­ing mix­ture of African and East In­di­an beats, na­tive to T&T. Equipped with Tas­sa drums and African drums, a vu­vuzela horn and blar­ing speak­ers on a mi­ni Maz­da mo­tor ve­hi­cle, one crew came to the beach with the love of their coun­try in tow. They blast­ed the rhythms of our twin-is­land par­adise and for one mo­ment dur­ing this month of free­dom de­pri­va­tion, Tri­nis chased their wor­ries away, danc­ing mer­ri­ly and unit­ing through mu­sic, hot sun, cold drinks and the pris­tine wa­ters of the North Coast lim­ing spot.

This week­end is no dif­fer­ent with the biggest out­doors, day­time event be­ing Saut&ea­cute; Trin­ba­go 2011, be­gin­ning at 2 pm, at The Pad­dock, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain. The af­ter­noons fare in­cludes per­for­mances by Machel Mon­tano, Bun­ji Gar­lin, Rik­ki Jai, Mun­gal Patasar, and reign­ing Na­tion­al Panora­ma cham­pi­on Neal & Massy Trinidad All Stars, plus ex­quis­ite lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al cui­sine. (AAL)