Em­bassy ded­i­cates con­cert to Bish­op

It is with great sad­ness that the Ger­man Em­bassy learned of the death of Dr Pat Bish­op. The em­bassy con­veyed its con­do­lences to her fam­i­ly and to the Ly­di­an Singers.Bish­op was one of the icons of this coun­try. Her work in mu­sic and cul­ture has been an in­spi­ra­tion for all of us, and her lega­cy will be more than trea­sured. Over the years, the em­bassy has been priv­i­leged to work very close­ly to­geth­er with Pat Bish­op and the Ly­di­an Singers.Her last project, "Win­ter­reise," a song cy­cle by Franz Schu­bert, will be per­formed by two out­stand­ing mu­si­cians, tenor Ed­ward Cum­ber­batch and ac­com­pa­nist Lindy-Ann Bod­den Ritch, on Sep­tem­ber 3 and 4 at the Lit­tle Carib in the orig­i­nal Ger­man ver­sion.At a re­cent re­hearsal of the "Win­ter Jour­ney," which is the Eng­lish trans­la­tion for the song cy­cle, Bish­op had told the em­bassy that she had fall­en in love with this high­ly im­por­tant work of ro­man­tic recitals when she was still a girl at school and that, since that time, she had hoped to be able to stage the lat­ter in Trinidad. The con­cert will now be ded­i­cat­ed to her.

Brit­ta Saleck­er

Cul­tur­al, Eco­nom­ic and Press Sec­tion

Em­bassy of the Fed­er­al Re­pub­lic of Ger­many

Time for pa­tri­ot­ic Tri­nis to back Govt

The de­c­la­ra­tion of a state of emer­gency has cer­tain­ly caught both crim­i­nals and the Op­po­si­tion off-guard.For the past few days the crim­i­nal gangs moved with im­puni­ty, shoot­ing down peo­ple in true Wild West scenes. Se­cu­ri­ty guards as well as in­no­cent limers were the tar­get of ma­raud­ing young­sters who were no doubt con­nect­ed with the drug trade. The state of emer­gency is just part of the Gov­ern­ment's an­ti-crime ini­tia­tive as the se­cu­ri­ty forces be­gin to flush out the ar­eas with il­le­gal drugs, guns and am­mu­ni­tion.As was ex­pect­ed, the Op­po­si­tion PNM pan­icked when it re­alised that the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment was pre­pared to take tough and de­ci­sive ac­tions against the crim­i­nal el­e­ments.As was fur­ther ex­pect­ed, Fitzger­ald Hinds and Kei­th Row­ley be­gan to ex­tol the virtues of their failed ad­min­is­tra­tion which took the un­par­al­lelled ac­tion to de­clare a lim­it­ed state of emer­gency to con­tain a for­mer Speak­er of the House.The very same PNM which may be ac­cused of su­per­vis­ing the rise in crime over the last decade by both its in­ac­tion and by court­ing some crim­i­nal el­e­ments has the temer­i­ty and im­pu­dence to crit­i­cise the Gov­ern­ment's lethal ac­tions which will re­dound to the ben­e­fit of all the coun­try.Per­haps it must be ask­ing too much for the PNM to re­pent for its years of fail­ure to mean­ing­ful­ly deal with crime in Trinidad. Its failed Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ters and equal­ly failed crime plans will for­ev­er live to haunt the par­ty's po­lit­i­cal ex­is­tence.This is a time when all pa­tri­ot­ic cit­i­zens must ral­ly to the de­fence of Moth­er T&T against the crim­i­nal el­e­ments.

Ra­bindra Moo­nan

San Fer­nan­do

Coun­try must ben­e­fit from Pat's lega­cy

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val De­vel­op­ment Foun­da­tion is sad­dened by the pass­ing of Pat Bish­op.The NCDF ex­tends deep­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends and to all who ben­e­fit­ed from her con­tri­bu­tion.The loss of this ver­sa­tile cul­tur­al icon must not re­main un­no­ticed. Pay­ing trib­ute is not enough, we must en­sure that our coun­try ben­e­fits from her out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion.When the NCDF was found­ed in 2003 it was Bish­op who de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at our first gen­er­al meet­ing which has con­tributed im­mense­ly to the strength of our or­gan­i­sa­tion. It is now up to the min­istry to en­sure that her lega­cy must not de­part with her.May her soul rest in peace.

Pe­ter Rey­nald

Sec­re­tary, NCDF

Hot­foot sure­ly to be missed by fans

The ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty and Tu­co North Zone in par­tic­u­lar have lost one of the stal­warts of the art form in the per­son of John Mc Ken­na, known in the ca­lyp­so world as Hot­foot.Hot­foot was the house MC of the Klas­sic Ru­so Ca­lyp­so Tent from its in­cep­tion, and would be fond­ly re­mem­bered by au­di­ences as the man with a thou­sand suits.He will be sore­ly missed by his fel­low cast mem­bers for his jovial spir­it as well as his pro­fes­sion­al­ism.Our con­do­lences are ex­tend­ed to his fam­i­ly.

Tu­co

North Zone

Govt deal­ing with crime sit­u­a­tion

I am so proud of the Gov­ern­ment I vot­ed for in deal­ing with the crime sit­u­a­tion se­ri­ous­ly.Years ago this should have been done but the then gov­ern­ment did not have the guts to deal with the prob­lem. It just dis­missed it with an­oth­er use­less crime plan.Well done PP, go all the way and give us back our coun­try. I sup­port you with the state of emer­gency and cur­few.

Brid­gette Moore

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