The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty's Youth Am­bas­sadors (YAs) host­ed the first eco con­cert in T&T en­ti­tled OMG!-Ori­ent My Gen­er­a­tion on Feb­ru­ary 4 at Queen's Hall in Port-of-Spain. Pres­i­dent of the EMA YAs, Ron­delle Keller opened the show and al­so of­fered the wel­com­ing re­marks. Fol­low­ing the na­tion­al an­them, spe­cial guest host and en­ter­tain­er Su­per­Jig­ga TC took to the stage to open the night's per­for­mances. Judge­ment Reach was the first dra­mat­ic per­for­mance of the evening, which spoke to the chron­ic is­sue of noise in T&T. The show was flu­id as En­vi­ron­men­tal Re­port, an­oth­er dra­mat­ic piece fol­lowed. Tenique Beck­les, win­ner of the Eco-Song 2011 Sec­ondary Schools com­pe­ti­tion, then per­formed her win­ning num­ber, Once, Twice & Trees. Douen Dumb Par­ty was up next, fol­lowed by the first pro­duced short film by the YAs en­ti­tled Halfway Green. Alex the Mako and Suzai's in­ter­ac­tion had the crowd beg­ging for more, as this dra­mat­ic piece en­veloped sev­er­al en­vi­ron­men­tal mes­sages pro­mot­ing green lifestyles.

Some of the mes­sages in­clud­ed: util­is­ing reusable cups, re­cy­cling, walk­ing with reusable bags and re­new­able en­er­gy. The tal­ent­ed YAs art­work, which ap­pears in the EMA's 2012 cal­en­dar, was al­so dis­played as a video pre­sen­ta­tion that was cre­at­ed by some of the am­bas­sadors. Ne­hemi­ah Ed­wards and Alexan­der John­son cre­at­ed the video and Alex Har­riper­sad pro­duced the back­ground mu­sic. Mon­ster's Surfer's Club, a dra­mat­ic song and dance ren­di­tion, shared an en­vi­ron­men­tal mes­sage about the ef­fects of pol­lu­tion on the ocean and the im­por­tance of car­ing for the bio­di­ver­si­ty that ex­ists there. Ocean Rob­ber, Riv­er Jab Jab and the Swamp Pier­rot al­so shared their laments with the au­di­ence that hu­man ac­tiv­i­ties were slow­ly de­plet­ing their re­sources in Band of the Year. Il­le­gal hunt­ing was an­oth­er mes­sage ad­dressed by the YA. Do So Doh Like So in­cor­po­rat­ed lo­cal folk­lore such as Pa­pa Bois, La Di­a­b­lesse and Har­ry de Hunter, whom some would say was the man of the show, came out in a dra­mat­ic pre­sen­ta­tion to the song Huntin by Blaxx. Har­ry had the crowd cheer­ing and laugh­ing as he sang his eco ver­sion of Kees' Wot­less, Care­less.

The show went on and peaked the au­di­ence's in­ter­est from start to fin­ish as An­tho­ny Bat­son, win­ner in the 2011 Eco-Song Com­pe­ti­tion sang his orig­i­nal chut­ney ren­di­tion, Show love for your coun­try. His spec­tac­u­lar East In­di­an twang left the au­di­ence in amaze­ment and loud cheers fol­lowed his per­for­mance. YA Win­sie-Ann Cuffie, al­so sang her self-com­posed item, Green it up, which was al­so well re­ceived by the crowd. The show closed on a high as en­ter­tain­er Su­per­Jig­ga TC belt­ed out a cou­ple of his pop­u­lar tunes for Car­ni­val 2012, much to the de­light of the au­di­ence. EMA's man­ag­ing di­rec­tor/CEO, Dr Joth Singh, was al­so quite proud of the youth for their hard work and ded­i­ca­tion to this project. "These youth am­bas­sadors are well on their way to be­com­ing fu­ture en­vi­ron­men­tal lead­ers. Chang­ing be­hav­iour starts with ear­ly ed­u­ca­tion and in­volve­ment, and our ed­u­ca­tion­al pro­grammes al­low for greater in­volve­ment and in­creased aware­ness among the youth in Trinidad and To­ba­go. "The EMA in­vests a lot of re­sources in youth train­ing and de­vel­op­ment. We are now see­ing the re­wards of this in­vest­ment, so cre­ative­ly demon­strat­ed at this con­cert," he said.