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On October 3, 1957, Simon Toulon was born to Theresa Sylvain, whose family roots are in Dominica. His mother migrated to Antigua with her own mother in the 1940s, and together, mother and grandmother raised Toulon in the Ottos community, ensuring he was surrounded by positive values, discipline, and a...

From Cassada Gardens to steelband leadership, Potter is helping shape a new generation in Antigua and Barbuda’s national instrument. Born on March 7, 1992, Maurisha Potter is the only daughter and youngest child of Maurice and Sharon Potter. Raised in Cassada Gardens, she remembers a childhood surrounded by love but...

“Pan is my passion. I eat, sleep, drink pan.” For Robert ‘Robin’ Margetson, those words are hardly an exaggeration. For more than four decades, steelpan has provided a soundtrack to his life, taking him from a teenager captivated by his first Panorama to player, arranger, band founder, teacher and mentor....

Some lives begin with a plan.  In Antigua and Barbuda, many began with a pair of borrowed pan sticks. For Vere Henry, one seemingly ordinary afternoon in 1972 would quietly alter the course of Antigua and Barbuda's steelband history. Today, more than fifty years later, his influence stretches from the...

February 27, 1967, stands as one of those hinge moments in the story of Antigua and Barbuda. On that day, the nation took a decisive constitutional step toward self-governance, while in the cultural space, a group of determined young pannists laid the foundation for what would become one of the country’s...

Some moments stop a nation in its tracks. Not because of spectacle alone, but because they remind us of who we are. January 28 has become one such date in Antigua and Barbuda’s living memory, a day when the sea itself seemed to deliver back courage, endurance, and collective pride, as Team...

January 15, 1964 - in the village of Liberta, St. Paul’s, Everly Paul ‘EP’ Chet Greene was born to Joseph and Averil Greene, into a community where sport, discipline, faith, and public life were tightly woven together. From an early age, he displayed the qualities that would later define him: quiet competitiveness, organisational instinct, and loyalty...

Ge’Eve Philip: From Baby Eve to Caribbean Queen January 13, 2006 - Antigua gave birth to a voice that would grow with Carnival itself. Long before she ever stepped onto a senior Monarch stage, Ge’Eve Philip was already part of the culture. Raised in a musical family, she absorbed rhythm the...

Justin Lockhart Simon’s story does not begin in Antigua. It begins in a Caribbean that still moved as one. He was educated in Dominica, attending St Mary’s Academy, where he was elected Head Boy in 1968. Those formative years gave him discipline, confidence, and a regional outlook that would later define his public life....

Born on November 7, 1985, Laurena Davis was destined to sing her way into the nation’s story. The daughter of Cyrus Davis of John Hughes and the late Joycelyn Proctor-Davis of Swetes, she was raised along Desouza Road in Ottos. This community shaped her values of togetherness, generosity, and perseverance....