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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

Grenadan government officials have set up a censorship board for locally composed calypso songs, barring those that are politically sensitive--or sometimes just rude--from being broadcast over the island’s sole radio station. Opposition figures charge the move infringes on freedom of expression. With no daily papers and only one radio station in this island nation of 90,000 people, calypso music is a vehicle for popular protest.

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