By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 48 (March/April 2001)
Curtly Ambrose on the bass
Shaggy on the bass. It’s the only way I can imagine Curtly Ambrose as a singer. And that’s what the Caribbean may soon have to look...
Literature, Reviews, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh, Jeremy Taylor and Simon Lee ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Bookshelf (May/June 2000)
BOOK OF THE MONTH For the Love of my Name Lakshmi Persaud (Peepal Tree Press 2000, ISBN 1-900715-29-5, 336pp) Lakshmi Persaud’s third...
By Debbie Jacob, Vaneisa Baksh and Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Upbeat (May/June 2000)
PICK OF THE MONTH 2000 Young to Soca Machel Montano (JW Productions, JW 198 CD) Trinidad and Tobago’s Prince of Soca announces...
Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 100 (November/December 2009)
Brian Lara: legend in his own lifetime
Some years ago, if you sent Brian Lara an e-mail, chances were he’d respond personally. It is a sign of how things have evolved that now...
Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 96 (March/April 2009)
Theron Shaw: the art of the matter
One night, as Trinidadian musician Theron Shaw was returning home from a rehearsal, a speeding car rammed into him on the dark highway....
By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 95 (January/February 2009)
Daren Ganga gets going
Cricket may have brought him his childhood dream, but it is an exacting mistress, demanding constant fealty if one is to be kept close to...
By Mirissa De Four, Vaneisa Baksh and Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 92 (July/August 2008)
Book reviews (July/August 2008)
More than a one-hit wonder This is the story of a man who became famous as a Test batsman who made a century on his debut, and then was...
Culture, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 89 (January/February 2008)
Beyond a boundary
It was over in just a few minutes. Forms filled, photograph taken, cheque and receipt written while a clever machine whirred out the...