Corie Sheppard Podcast

In this week's episode we celebrate the 102nd Birthday of The Grandmaster, Lord Kitchener.We revisit Jamaica Carnival as they're reported to have hit their highest revenues ever but it's less than 1/3 the revenues of the carnival it's supposed to be taking over.While that debate rages on, some reggae legends sold out a show over the weekend while the reggae all

Party done! Back to work. But back to a short week - because is still T&T.In this week's episode we discuss the unfortunate firebombing of cars at HSM compound and the rise of extortion as a thriving business model in sweet T&T.The saga of the SSA continues as Fitzgerald Hinds seems to be finding out about the goings on in the papers just like me and you. Does the name

In this week's episode we discuss the amount of holidays in Trinidad and what makes T&T the sweetest place on earth despite all the issues.Kamla Persad Bissessar gives us an example of our diversity as she shares her story about being a practicing Hindu that was baptised by a Spiritual Baptist Mother. Pêche Pâtisserie finds themselves the news again as they offer 1% hot

In this week's episode we wish all the success in the world to the SEA students who are writing their exams on Thursday! Your hard work will pay off and we have a full lineup of work songs throughout the episode.We send a CSP salute and celebrate the life of Jumbo the entrepreneur, patriot, legend & nuts man.The UK & USA are discussing a 4 day work week for the same pa

In this week's episode we celebrate International Women's Day with some calypso classics by women and about women as we recount a weekend filled with music.We get into the new drive to increase sustainability in business when in fact this is not at all new to us in Trinidad & Tobago as we have some of the most sustainable practices in all the world. We should offer co

In this week's episode we take a deep dive into KFC's increases prices and the boycott that followed. Someone by the name of Alex Mouttet, not speaking on behalf of the family of course, came out and made some disparaging remarks about doubles vendors and roti shop owners that seems to have added fire to the calls for a PHL boycott.We take a look at some Econ and Marketin

We get back into the swing of things this week!As T&Tec spends time saving cats from trees we ended up without electricity which lead to a chance meeting with an electrician who turned out to have written one of my favourite songs of all time.Fire Services may have been able to help if only their million dollar ladders were working but we're here to save the day with some

We finally get to our carnival wrap up and deal with some of the controversies and the not so controversial decisions. We get into the birggest winners and the biggest losers of the 2024 season and much more!!Enjoy!

In this week's episode we recap Calypso Fiesta and wins and losses of the weekend as we're forced to eat back a lot of our words from last week.We get into Gypsy, the chairman of the NCC entering and winning competitions sanctioned and run by the NCCC but not seeing it as a conflict of interest.The elitism associated with carnival has reached our shores and some words fro

We're joined by friend of the show and Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) founder Marsha Messiah as we kick back and talk to Keegan Taylor, a Bois Man both in academia and in the gayelle, song writer, movie producer and business man among many other hats. We discuss two of his biggest writing successes, Machel and Benji's Buss Head and Desert and Yung Bredda’s