The IDAKEDA Group has been at the heart of the celebrations for the commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade

1881 was a year of significance for the newly emancipated Africans in Trinidad and Tobago In that year stick fighters masqueraders and revellers took on the might of the British colonial administration symbolized in the figure of the Commissioner of Police Captain Baker

Baby Doll Meets Midnight Robber a production based on an original script by author cultural activist and award winning actress Eintou Pearl Springer

As the music begins to play awardwinning poet Eintou Pearl Springer reads her words aloud

A drum held around a musicians shoulder is being played in the corner of the stage A barefoot woman dressed all in white dances while holding a broom her red lipstick the only color on her body She lets her body flow freely while feeling the music of the drum An emotionfilled voice songlike begins to read

The Carib Community celebrates the seventh 7th anniversary of the granting of a date by the government of Trinidad and Tobago in honour of the Heritage of the First Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago and the ability of the Karina Carib First Peoples Santa Rosa Community in Arima to survive

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