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by Kota Forde-Cumberbatch

Crop Over is a cultural and historical event, celebrating the end of the sugar cane harvest season. Barbados.org describes Crop Over as;“The Crop Over summer festival is Barbados' most popular and colourful festival. Its origins can be traced back to the 1780's, a time when Barbados was the world's largest producer of sugar. At the end of the sugar season, there was always a huge celebration to mark the culmination of another successful sugar cane harvest – the Crop Over celebration....

One must say that the offering of celebration time has improved somewhat over that of 2009. However if things are to get better, we expect further evolution for next crop over season. On listening to what this tent had to offer I’ve just made a few comments, observations or even strong opinions. Call them what you like...I’ll get to the point...

Cyclone– sauntered onto the stage singing Punctuality or more so Punch In, but the lacklustre way in which he performed made you wonder if he did punch...

Rain was sluicing from the heavens, just as it had been six years ago when I visited The Experience Tent on judging night for the first time. However, that is where the similarity of the experience ends. Then, the performers sang their hearts out under a tiny tent while a small,vocally supportive audience of husbands and very good friends danced joyfully in the rain and praised God. Now, the tent is a slicker package. Dressed in red and black, smiling hostesses greet you at the door and invite you to wave a rag, buy some merchandise or make a donation. Mark Hill’s new logo and...

This one is going to be Hott! The Hypa Dawg has been fired! The newspaper headlines screamed, now the truth has come to light we are recognizing the apology that wasn’t heard, actually was heard and what we thought was the truth, was not. Let’s get down to “Brass tacks”.

This topic of Lil Rick being “fired” from Starcom Network has been discussed extensively on my Peter Boyce Facebook page, so I will not bore you by repeating details..

It is already known Rick made a mistake and played a song on Hott which contained profanities and...

WHEN ONE THINKS about Crop Over, the first thing that comes to mind is thousands of people dancing and enjoying themselves at Party Monarch and theCavalcades or revelers doing the same as they  make their way down the Spring Garden Highway on Grand Kadooment Day.

Crop Over runs all summer long, when secondary level and tertiary level students alike are on break from school and cannot wait to take part in the annual events.

However, not all young people get excited this time of year. There is, probably higher than most would think, a number of young...