Trinidad and Tobago

Culture, Film and Television, History, Trinidad and Tobago

Battleground Tobago: Raising ghosts from a watery grave

Tiny, peaceful Tobago was once the scene of one of the bloodiest sea battles ever fought – one that saw 20 ships destroyed and sunk to...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago

Island girl

You can take the girl out of the island, but maybe it’s true that you can’t take the island out of the girl. Not entirely, anyway....

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Culture, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Last-minute mas

Feathers are in vogue for this year’s Carnival, but Richard “Ashraph” Ramsaran isn’t exactly following that trend. Though his band...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago

Rachel Price: it started in the kitchen

If celebrities can actually cook, it makes them seem more like us ordinary folks. When T&T entertainer Rachel Price updated her...

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Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Music for the mas

Soca singers are hardly putting out albums for Carnival – have you noticed? Instead they are churning out singles, via either radio...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad All Stars: Fleet’s In

The Fleet’s In sailor mas might seem just a grown-up way of enjoying Carnival with a great steelband, Trinidad All Stars. Actually,...

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Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Monitoring the mas

Peering at grainy images of Trinidad & Tobago mas bands on your computer is one way to ignore the fact that you’re shivering through...

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Culture, Arts, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Bands of the year

If you didn’t get the memo, it’s probably too late. Many Carnival bands have been sold out since last September (never mind some...

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