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Community, Culture, Theatre and Dance, People

Rex Nettleford on Keeping “Caribbeanness” Alive In Dance

The question is often asked: how does a dance company in the languorous Caribbean survive four decades without a single one of its...

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Community, Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago

SERVOL: A miracle a day

The Beetham Estate is an area where middle-class Trinidadians are loath to go. The main east-west highway cuts it in two; to the south is...

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Engage, Community, Music, Jamaica

Alpha plus: Jamaica’s Alpha Boys School

It’s a hot day in February as I drive up Mountain View Avenue in Kingston. The foothills of the Blue Mountains are dotted with patches of...

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Engage, Community, Culture, People, Jamaica

J-FLAG: Respecting difference

  “ What is the fear of stones  — n o, the fear of being stoned? What is it called, this expectancy some men carry in their...

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Community, Culture, Environment, Trinidad and Tobago

Fondes Amandes, Trinidad: It takes a village

The month of March is when Trinidad’s dry season, at first so welcome, becomes fierce, turns the vegetation yellow, and parches the...

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Community, Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

Daren Ganga: Coaching for cricketing talent

Daren Ganga has his eye on the future. “Cricket is my chosen sport and primary profession,” he says in an email interview. “However,...

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Community, Culture, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Petite Martinique: as wide as a smile

In the Grenadines — and for that matter in any part of the Caribbean where small islands cluster companionably together — boats are the...

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Community, Culture, Lifestyle, Jamaica

HIV & AIDS in Jamaica: Kwame Dawes tackles the taboo

Since the early 1980s, Kwame Dawes has explored contemporary Jamaican culture through poetry, plays, novels, and academic work, looking at...

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