Author: BC Pires

Culture, Lifestyle, Barbados

Road Rage – Bajan Style

All human experience is circular, with the extremes far closer to one another than the midpoints: you laugh until you cry; at the darkest...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Out of the blue

Tobago’s Blue Food Festival Dasheen ain’t caviar. A starchy tuber or root crop from a food group so basic it is called “ground...

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Music, Arts, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Dancing To A Single “Dub” Beat

I have this theory that the islands and territories of the West Indian archipelago were once all joined together. Without any sea between...

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Culture, Literature, Music

Island Jazz

There are more than 30 jazz festivals every year in the Caribbean and most Caribbean people have never been to one. Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy...

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Culture, People, Sports

What Next for Brian Lara?

In April, the 25-year-old Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies batsman scored 375 runs in the fourth Test against England in Antigua,...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Westwood Park: Lights, Camera, Bacchanal

Dallas, the progenitor of all modern night-time soap operas, changed American culture so dramatically, if you please, that when Larry...

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