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Culture, People, Guyana

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...

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Culture, Environment, Science, Barbados

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...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Jamaica

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...

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Culture, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, History, People, Haiti

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...

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Culture, Film and Television, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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,...

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