Festivals and Events

Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Chasing the dragon boat

Thousands of people turned out to witness the inaugural dragon boat race held in honour of the 200th anniversary of Chinese arrival in...

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Festivals and Events

Island hopper (July/August 2007)

We don’t call it summer, but as in most places, it’s holiday season in the Caribbean. School is out, the beaches are beckoning and...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Russell “Russ” Henderson: taking it to the streets

It was in 1965, when I was living in Bassett Road, Notting Hill, just off Ladbroke Grove. A woman called Rhaune Laslett, a social worker,...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

The Trinidad Carnival challenge

For two days every February, hundreds of thousands of people flock to the streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago’s capital, as...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, St. Lucia

St Lucia Jazz returns to its roots

Jazz lovers rejoice. In the midst of growing regional debate about jazz festivals that don’t contain much jazz, if any at all, St Lucia...

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Culture, Festivals and Events

Island hopper (May/June 2007)

Cricket is over and the Easter vacation is now a blur. But don’t despair; the months of May and June aren’t dormant ones in the...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Sea and be seen

The 2007 Angostura Tobago Sail Week, with the theme of “The Spirit of Racing“, promises to be full of surprises as it celebrates its...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, People

Passing of a king of carnival: Carlos Lezama

Last January 22, Carlos Lezama, the man known as “the Father of Brooklyn Carnival”, died at King’s County Hospital in his adopted...

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