By Raymond Ramcharitar ● Issue 106 (November/December 2010)
Sydney Allicock: the man from Iwokrama
As he stood before the large audience at the main ballroom at Hilton Trinidad in April, Sydney Allicock, clad in a simple white shirt with...
Culture, Environment, Science, Barbados
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 106 (November/December 2010)
The garden on the rocks
With a name like hers, you might have predicted that Iris Bannochie would have developed a passion for flowers in her lifetime and even...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 106 (November/December 2010)
Top 10 Jamaica: land of wood and water
As a child, listening to reggae on the radio in Trinidad, I dreamed of Jamaica; a land of great adventure, it seemed to me. All that...
Culture, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Al Akong ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Al Akong: drawing from memory
Today, at 72, I am back where my life started, in the as-yet-unspoilt northeast corner of Trinidad, rounding off my life. I work two...
Culture, History, People, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Pierre Toussaint: from slavery to sainthood
The search for the Caribbean’s first saint began 70 years ago, in December 1941, in a dark and overgrown New York churchyard. Leading the...
Culture, Film and Television, Trinidad and Tobago
By The Trinidad and Tobago Film Company ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
T&T’s love affair with the silver screen
When the first cinema in Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain’s London Theatre, opened its doors in 1911, a local love affair with the...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Ramleela: epic on a village stage
In the pantheon of Hindu festivals, Divali probably holds pride of place in Trinidad & Tobago. The festival of lights, which falls on...
Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Debbie Jacob ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Celebrating Trinidad’s Calypso
It has been called the people’s newspaper, and the history of much of the Caribbean is wrapped up in it. Calypso music documents events,...