Nicki Minaj Arrives Home In Trinidad Ahead Of 2023 Carnival

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Nicki Minaj has arrived in her home country, the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, ahead of Carnival Monday.

The artist was spotted leaving the airport with her hairstylist Tae in tow along with members of her team. On Instagram, she got ahead of the narrative as she confirmed that she was indeed on the island to celebrate Carnival. “They said the Queen of rap just touch down in she home country,” she wrote on Instagram Stories. “Allyuh hear dah or wah,? She asked her fans.

Around midday, Nicki Minaj, dressed in leather pants and an ankle-length coat, was spotted leaving the airport with security and her stylist.

Carnival is celebrated on Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in Trinidad with a barrage of parties, road marches, and colorful and shiny costumes. This is not the first time Minaj is doing Carnival, as she has been traveling to the country over the years and serving inspiring looks to Carnival-goers.

The visit comes ahead of Nicki Minaj joining Machel Montano and Destra Garcia on her first soca record, “Shake The Record.” The song was released on Friday on YouTube and across radio stations and among Carnival deejays.

Minaj is likely to participate in Carnival festivities which include parties on Sunday, a road march with costumes on Monday, and J’Ouvert on Tuesday. The artist’s Trinidad fans shared videos they caught of her, while others reacted with glee on social media.

“Mother has arrived!” one fan wrote.

“Omg girl if only I knew I would of been there,” another said.

Nicki Minaj also shared on her Instagram Stories several throwback videos and photos from her past Carnival appearances, including her last visit in 2020. The rapper shared that even though she appeared gorgeous and happy, she was, in fact, pregnant with her son, Papa Bear, who was born later in September 2020.

“I was preggers — madddd morning sickness,” she wrote.

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Luckie Mazi, Mr Cheeks & Stevey Fresh Link Up On New Song “Sexuation”

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Mr.Cheeks of the Lost Boyz link up with Luckie Mazi and Stevey Fresh for a crossover reggae/hip-hop smash hit, “Sexuation.”

Since its release in December, the track has been gaining traction on hip hop and dancehall airwaves internationally. According to producer/artist Stevey Fresh, “Sexuation” is the desire to surpass love in any given relationship between two persons as a passionate result of satisfactory guarantees at any given time and place.”

The single “Sexuation” has an island beat blend with a classic hip/hop sound creating a masterpiece for the listening public. With today’s music being as raunchy as ever, “Sexuation” provides a classy and respectful serene vibe for listeners. The trio produced a Caribbean sound guaranteed to put listeners in the vibe.

Stevey Fresh was born in Belize and is the son of a musician. He immigrated to the United States in 1999 and was introduced to dancehall and rap at an early age.

“As to my audience I would to take you through a journey as I make you dance and understand my cultural music as dancehall and hip hop and rap,” Fresh told Urban Islandz. “I been doing music for some time now did songs and stage performances with great people such as Skinny Gilly — Z Lala — lion — talent- Mantana — and the list goes on . My main focus is to connect with listeners world wide as I manifest my craft.. Music is life and will take you back to that place as you vibe.”

Mr. Cheeks is an American rapper best known for his work with the group Lost Boyz and as a solo artist known for his hit “Lights, Camera, Action!”

Luckie Mazi is a marketing expert/businessman turned music artist. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Mazi is best known for his work in production, marketing, and promotion but is now pushing his career as an artist. In 2011, he moved to Las Vegas, NV, to pursue his entrepreneurial career in the entertainment industry.

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CARICOM warned to brace for imported inflation

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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is being warned to prepare for the impact of imported inflation as the ongoing increase in the cost of living which is being fuelled in part by rising petrol prices, among other things, is set to continue unabated, according to Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley.

Mottley, who was addressing the closing press conference of the 44th Regular CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas, on Friday, noted that with an easing of freight costs and other contributory factors to the cost of living, overall, prices have started to fall but the region is not likely to enjoy the full benefits.

“Regrettably, as we know, in our region and perhaps in other parts, when prices rise they hardly ever come back down. In our own country, we have tried to enter into a voluntary compact with the private sector and the labour movement to see the markups being contained and I say markups because the majority of what we use in this region, we do not produce. So we will import inflation because the inflation is coming internationally.”

The region’s annual food import bill hovers at about US$5 billion and Heads of Government of CARICOM have committed to reducing this by 25 per cent by 2025. The implementation of the CARICOM Agri-Food Systems Strategy in the Member States is being touted as an option to help achieve this target, by giving special attention to priority crops and products such as poultry, corn, soya, meat (goat, sheep, beef), rice and niche vegetables which are highly imported products in the region.

Referencing the Barbados Initiative which encourages the inclusion of a natural disaster clause which would stipulate a temporary suspension of interest rate payments on debt owned by a country hit by climate disaster, Mottley called for the provision of additional fiscal space in such an event.

“We need to have better terms of conditions for accessing finance to give us the ability to buy more, do more and to be able to create that space so that we can do for our citizens more. This region is heavily indebted, not because of profligacy or corruption but because we continue to face serious exogenous shocks and also serious problem as it relates to the climate crisis,” she charged.

“Every time a hurricane or storm or flood hits, invariably it’s the governments that are carrying the costs of trying to restore people to stability. To build the houses, to deal with the infrastructure, to protect coastal defences and all of these things that eat into the space that you would normally have to provide access to education, health and to be able to subsidise and promote some level of buffer between the citizens and the increasing cost of living,” she added.

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CARICOM No closer to solving regional transportation issues

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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders ended their 44th regular summit in The Bahamas on Friday, nowhere closer to solving the woes being experienced by regional travelers following the collapse of the intra-regional airline, LIAT, in 2020.

“It is an ongoing discussion we have mandated the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to explore and to examine the current challenge that we have and to come up with some recommendations on how we can overcome the travel issue of intra-regional travel,” Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit told reporters at the end of summit news conference.

The Antigua-based LIAT (1974) Limited began shutting down in July 2020 following increased debt and the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The airline is owned by the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A downsized version of the carrier has been operating a reduced schedule with a limited workforce since November 2020.

The airline has scaled down its operations and is now servicing Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, San Juan Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and St. Maarten.

Skerrit told reporters the matter had been discussed during the summit and the leaders had received an updated report from the CDB.

“Amongst ourselves we have also discussed a number of actions we believe we can take in the immediate to help resolve the current challenge we have.

“The reality is we all miss LIAT in the Caribbean, an airline that was chastised by so many of us, but now we understand and appreciate the important public good LIAT espoused for so many decades and so we are looking at what kind of construct we can bring to play recognizing that there are existing companies that are servicing our islands,” he added.

Skerrit said the Caribbean countries are looking “at how we can work with those existing entities to seek to alleviate the current challenges”.

In his address to the opening ceremony of the summit on Wednesday, newly elected St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew said CARICOM “stands at a cross roads” with myriad challenges including inadequate transportation within the region.

Drew said it is difficult for the Caribbean countries to extoll the virtues of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) that facilities the free movement of goods, services, persons, capital and technology “without addressing the proverbial “elephant in the room” – intra regional transport.

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