The IDAKEDA Group is pleased to announce the launch of its website WWWIDAKEDAGROUPCOM The website provides information on the body of work amassed by Poet Laureate of Port of Spain Eintou Pearl Springer

An invitation was extended to schools around the country for some of their students to participate in a series of workshops as part of the programme of activities for Carifesta IX

In the 1970s The Indigenous People founded their very own Secretariat after a conference was held in St Vincent since then the Secretariat was hosted by many Caribbean countries Guyana who has been the host for the past ten 10 years will now pass the baton to Trinidad and Tobago

Premier regional artiste and academic Professor Rex Nettleford of Jamaica will launch the CARIFESTA IX Symposia at 10 am on Saturday September 23

The Spoken Word and the Women of the Oral Tradition will honour Jamaican Spoken Word and Storytelling Caribbean Icon Louise Ms Lou Bennett

The IDAKEDA Group is in the process of another successful community intervention through its work with one of the local Afro Brazilian Martial Arts groups Grupo Capoeira Senzala Trinidad and Tobago

Gens DArime an original play by Pearl Eintou Springer was the feature presentation for the Arima Borough Day celebrations this year The title of the play is Patois for People of Arima

Loving the Skin Im In the latest offering by awardwinning author playwright and Poet Laureate of Port of Spain Eintou Pearl Springer is being hailed as a cultural and historical exploration of the Caribbean experience

Poet Laureate of Port of Spain Eintou Pearl Springer and eminent author and UWI lecturer Merle Hodge leave today to represent Trinidad and Tobago at the Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar International Conference May 30 to June 3 2006 at the Westin Diplomat Conference Center Hollywood Florida