NAPA

Like many of you, I'm quite distracted lately by the FIFA World Cup 2010 tournament in South Africa, so I haven't been as prolific in my writing as before. Here are some brief thoughts on issues that crossed the online forums I've browsed over the past two weeks.

Local Government Elections

The following is a discussion post I created on the ACTT's NAPA facebook group.  Check there for additional comments from fellow group members.

Dear ACTT and fellow facebook fans,

A report entitled The Tragedy & The Hidden History of NAPA is currently being circulated online.  Written by Rubadiri Victor, President of the Artists Coalition of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT), it presents his (and/or his organisation's) views on the history of the development of T&T's National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), concerns about its flagship building (the NAPA Centre) at Queens Park South in Port of Spain, and what it me