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Clive Bradley was in St James last night.

by Dennis Ramdeen|08 June 201207 June 2013|Blog, Off-Topic

Bradley was in St James last night at We Beat. Despers opened with "In My House" in a set that included "Rebecca" and "Ordinary People" and I stayed past mid-night, mesmerized by Rudolph's children. There is something about pan that...

Making a list of Trinidad and Tobago “geniuses”.

by Dennis Ramdeen|27 July 201108 June 2013|Blog, Off-Topic

Genius (plural geniuses[1][2]) is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight. (source: Wikipedia) I'm going to take a stab at starting a list of...

Is Machel Montano messing with his brand by going back into Soca Monarch?

by Dennis Ramdeen|29 January 201109 June 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy

Machel is going back into the Soca Monarch and the fans love it. And that's all that should matter right? Wrong! Machel has been doing some pretty heavy strategic brand stuff in the past little while, culminating in his...

“Don’t waste trump”… Lloyd Best

by Dennis Ramdeen|07 January 201130 January 2011

I can't remember the context, but Lloyd Best once told me "don't waste trump." I was at Stag when he told me that so it must have had something to do with the beer war that we were in the...