Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 87 (September/October 2007)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Kim Johnson ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
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,...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, St. Lucia
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
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...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mirissa De Four ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, People
By Caroline Taylor ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
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...