Sean Nero

In­ter­na­tion­al me­dia prac­ti­tion­ers who at­tend­ed the 14th An­nu­al Caribbean Con­fer­ence on Sus­tain­able Tourism De­vel­op­ment or­gan­ised by the Caribbean Tourism Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CTO), and host­ed by this coun­try's Min­istry of Tourism, got a sweet taste of this coun­try's cul­ture last Sun­day.The Dami­an Street, Wood­brook, pa­n­yard of Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove was the venue for the cul­tur­al show­case and cui­sine fair pre­sent­ed by the T&T In­com­ing Tour Op­er­a­tors and pro­duced by El­ton Pouchet.

There was sweet steel­pan mu­sic from reign­ing Na­tion­al Panora­ma cham­pi­on Phase II, with a steel­pan ed­u­ca­tion com­po­nent that thrilled me­dia prac­ti­tion­ers who learnt to play the steel­pan.While the folks from the Tride­vi Dance Troupe took care of the tas­sa and East In­di­an dance seg­ment on the play­bill, the African el­e­ment of T&T's cul­ture was rep­re­sent­ed by the Diego Mar­tin Foot­prints Com­pa­ny.

Apart from danc­ing to the rhythms of the African drums, guests got a chance to lim­bo and joined a con­ga line.A pre­sen­ta­tion by the Ry­th­mi­ka Chi­nese Per­form­ing Group proved to the vis­i­tors ex­act­ly why the cos­mopoli­tan twin-is­land re­pub­lic is re­ferred to as "sweet T&T."