Author: Dylan Kerrigan

Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Carlisle Chang: the artist

Carlisle Chang, 1921–2001 “Carlisle Chang is in the realm of myth . . . His work — like himself — has a sense of timelessness,...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Stephen Derek: the globetrotter

Stephen Derek, born 1952 Few of today’s bandleaders can claim to have mastered all the traditional costume-design skills that thrived in...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Wayne Berkeley: the showman

Wayne Berkeley, born 1940 “Here was a man who wasn’t bluffing. An artist disdaining the Carnival cliché, the foil stuck on a costume...

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Arts and Architecture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Peter Minshall: the dramatist

Peter Minshall, born 1941 “It is doubtful that the work of any single individual has had so instantaneous and so searing an impact on the...

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Culture, Festivals and Events

Bikinis, beads, braids

The story of the last half-century of Trinidad Carnival is a story of brilliant, ambitious, tireless men and women, striving to achieve...

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People

Movers & shakers – Jan/Feb 2004

Sir George in charge 47 years ago, Barbadian George Alleyne was one of the first medical graduates of the University College of the West...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Tobago

Most people who know me think I’m either a workaholic or a lazy so-and-so: the ones who know me really well know that I’m in fact both....

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Carnival, Tobago Style

Sometimes, I’ll be in my office, and suddenly memories of glitter, the tinkling of steelpans and the pounding of soca sound systems...

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