Curtly Ambrose’s Comeback
In the small islands of the West Indies, parents sometimes try and help their children find a way in the world by giving them a big name...
Trinidad and Tobago: a tale of two cities
Trinidad Trinidad is transformed by its people. Dramatically. One person may come and be whisked from airport to hotel to conference room...
Cricket 101: What on earth are they talking about?
In most team sports, the field positions sound like what they are. In soccer, you have defending, mid-field and attacking players called...
The Breakfast Shed: food without frills
Once you understand that “no frills” is really no exaggeration, the Breakfast Shed at the Port of Spain dock offers robust, tasty local...
Word of mouth (November/December 2014)
King James version Nicholas Laughlin explains why a new novel by Jamaican writer Marlon James just might be the Caribbean book of the year...
Deep, backward, short and silly
In most team sports, the field positions sound like what they are. In soccer, you have defending, mid-field and attacking players called...
Caribbean bookshelf (January/February 2014)
Wishing for Wings, by Debbie Jacob (Ian Randle Publishers, 236 pp, ISBN 9789766378028) The Youth Training Centre on Golden Grove Road in...
Chelsea Tuach: “Get in the water – that’s the first thing anyone should do”
Aged just seventeen, Chelsea Tuach is Barbados’s top female surfer. She started surfing at eight, at ten she became the youngest surfer...
