Monday, November 23, 2015 – New York – Jatta Records is proud to announce the release date for Taj Weekes and Adowa’s much anticipated fifth album. Love Herb & Reggae is slated for release in February 2016 through VPAL, the distribution arm of VP Records. As a timely and even necessary update of the decades-old “sex, drugs and […]
Taken from St.Lucia Times Castries, October 30th, 2015: With the support of JetBLue, Overseas Sons & Daughters of St. Lucia (OSADS) and the Dominica Relief Dallas, TOCO Foundation has made good on its promise to continue its mobilization to support the Dominica relief effort. Another care-package shipment has been dispatched to the island of Dominica with […]
Taken from UNITED REGGAE By Shelah Moody on Saturday, October 31, 2015 – Photos by Lee Abel Legends and new artists shine at the 22nd annual Sierra Nevada World Music Festival. “Reggae is a verb; it’s not just a music, it’s an action word, it’s a giving word. We don’t sing to get girls; we don’t sing to get big […]
Taken From the Voice By: Rochelle Gonzales October 22, 2015 Taj Weekes’ Animal Agenda. I have written about the problem of stray dogs in St. Lucia in the past but a recent initiative by Taj Weekes has just ignited my passion for the well-being of these animals. After a kind gesture by his son who bought […]
Taken from the Voice By: Rochelle Gonzales October 17, 2015 POLICE yesterday announced that they had arrested and detained “two individuals” in connection with the death of a four year old boy of Grand Ravine, Dennery. But they gave no other details. St Lucians have taken to social media in their hundreds to comment and express […]
Taken from Stluciastar.com Written by Cat Foster | September 26, 2015 Taj Weekes – musician, poet, humanitarian, dog-owner and animal-lover – is now tackling an issue that has been troubling him since he was a child growing up in Saint Lucia. Taj is organising spay and neuter clinics for animals on 16th, 17th and 18th […]
Press Release TOCO Foundation Mobilizes Partners to support the Dominica Relief Effort
Brooklyn, NY (June 24, 2015)—Project Education, the New York-based organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged Saint Lucian families obtain school supplies, announced its annual Saint Lucian Breakfast for Education to be held Sunday, July 12, 2015 from 10:00AM to 1:00PM at the Saint Lucia House, located at 438 E 49th Street, between Church and Snyder Avenues […]
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:43:46 EDT PM Love Herb and Reggae may seem like an archetypical contemporary reggae album title, but Taj Weekes is not your archetypical contemporary reggae artist. The youngest of 10 children, Weekes grew up in St. Lucia but moved to Toronto at 15 […]