Comments on: Terry loses fight against cancer http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78 Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:25:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: TriniSoca.com http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-4202 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:26:47 +0000 http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78#comment-4202 Cultural send-off for TJ

Thursday, January 10 2008

The body of former entertainment journalist, turned cultural and political advisor, Terry Joseph, is expected back in Trinidad today for a funeral celebration that will take place tomorrow at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya.

From 1 pm there will be a public viewing of the body, and one hour later there will be a “non- religious send-off.”

That programme will begin with a tribute to Joseph by his long-time friend, veteran journalist Keith Smith, followed by blessings and an inspirational statement by Fr Clyde Harvey.

Patrick Arnold, Renwick Brown and Michael Leggerton will pay their respects on behalf of the pan, mas and calypso fraternities respectively.

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, Junior Regrello is also expected to speak.

Tributes will also be paid by representatives from Rabs Immortelle and The Harvard Club, before the man who Joseph last worked with, FIFA vice president and Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner makes his contribution.

They will also be performances by the Laventille Rhythm Section, Sagicor Exodus, the Black Stalin, Brother Resistance, a soloist from the Lydian Singers, Lord Superior backed by Roy Cape All Stars.

The body will then leave the Marvin Lee Stadium at 4.15 pm for a private cremation.

http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,71151.html

]]> By: Geoffrey Dunn http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-4200 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:53:18 +0000 http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78#comment-4200 Terry Joseph was a great friend, a boon companion and a fellow lover of calypso and the cultural wonders of Trinidad. And he himself was a cultural icon. No one, and I mean no one, could write — or talk — about calypso like Terry Joseph. And about football and pan. And I loved to listen to him, that big deep brown gravelly voice of his, and that wicked sense of humour and his biting sarcasm and profound insights. I spent many a night with him, in the tents, in the panyards, at Mas Camp,just listening and laughing. And then I would wake up in the morning and read his wonderful and insightful words in print. We were both writers, and we both earned our keep with the written word, and he enjoyed talking about the craft, about finding one’s voice, and keeping it, and filling a void on the page. And we both had cancer. Yeah. We talked about that when we were last together, too, about chemo and radiation, about coming face to face with our mortality, and about the blows of that particular battle. And he fought it his way, which is the only way one can fight, truly, and he was a warrior until the end. He had the love of his wife, Laini, and he had his love of de culture, and that was enough for him, and it was everything. Some day, somewhere, we shall share another bottle of Johnnie Walker Black, and lift a toast to the calypso gods. Trinidad — and Carnival — will never be the same without him.

Geoffrey Dunn
Co-producer/Director
Calypso Dreams

]]> By: David Louis Clarke http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-4199 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:47:39 +0000 http://www.trinisoca.com/blog/?p=78#comment-4199 I have lost a very dear friend, apart from being a friend we also carried the same birth date. Gone but not forgotten

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