BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - IN an online link up with our very own Nicha B, he shared with SKNVibes an update as to his current whereabouts.
On June 20, the artiste departed St. Kitts on his mission forward to work on his upcoming album, ‘Highly Bless’. Unfortunately, the mission did not go as planned and was cancelled, but it was relayed that a new date would be decided upon.
Nevertheless, Nicha did not let that decision dampen his spirit. He fast tracked on a little island hop where he is currently located (Barbados) doing youth works for the Barbados Youth Action Programme (BYAP).
In an exclusive interview with Nicha, he told SKNVibes that he had first spent a night in Antigua, where he was invited to sing at a local night club called WATTO. The next day he took a flight straight to Barbados.
Since on that island, Nicha has performed at the BYAP Youth Conference, entitled Choices/ Consequences. Besides singing about choices in life, he also shared with the youth about himself, as well as his personal life growing up, in an effort to inspire the children to try and make good choices.
He expressed, “It was lovely.”
BYAP is a strategic programme which uses preventative and unorthodox social measures to combat the rising levels of deviant behaviour and violence in the inner communities of Barbados.
BYAP is a Non-Governmental Organisation, their mission is to dissuade youth from engaging in behaviour that places them at risk of incarceration and to rehabilitate the incarcerated.
Nicha expressed, “BYAP is a programme for lost and troubled youths of the Caribbean, and they go all about trying to unite the Caribbean. These two Rastafarian, Emmanuel Beryllia and Lumumba Batson, are ex-prisoners of the OBCC on Rikers Island. They, with their BYAP family, have been on a serious and positive mission to show the youths right from wrong with the help of Rastafari.”
In addition to doing community work, speaking with the youths and sharing his life experience with them, Nicha has also been networking and was honoured to meet Hamilton Lashley, who is a retired Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports.
Hamilton is now an adviser to the government on Social Policy and is also the advisor to BYAP.
Nicha expressed pleasure in receiving even more invitations to speak at another conference and schools in Barbados. He will be going to the Princess Margaret Secondary School on Wednesday (Jun. 26) and will then be making a television appearance on Friday (Jun. 28).
