Author: Attillah Springer

Embark, Festivals and Events

Word of mouth (January/February 2015)

The beauty of the battle Attillah Springer on the traditions and power of stickfighting, Trinidad’s homegrown martial art Forget the big...

Read More

Culture, Fashion and Jewellery, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Lesley Ann Noel: keeping it chic

If design is vision, then Lesley Ann Noel is emerging as one of Trinidad’s top young visionaries. After seven years in Brazil, Noel...

Read More

Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Bishop’s girls don’t cry | Last word

At the end of the love affair, I did what was expected of me. I made a misery playlist for my iPod, and ate appropriately obscene amounts...

Read More

Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Carifesta IX: celebrating ourselves

“You going Carifesta?” Not to be left out of the excitement, the corn soup vendor on Independence Square is getting into the spirit of...

Read More

Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Masman: Peter Minshall

It is the last Sunday in January, less than a month before Carnival 2006. At the headquarters of the Callaloo Company — in a World War...

Read More

Engage, Culture, Food and Cuisine, Caribbean Diaspora

Have her cake and eat it | Classic | Last word

Everybody thinks their grandmother makes the best black cake. They are wrong, since I can say with all surety that my grandmother made the...

Read More

Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Meggie 101 | Classic | Last Word

My name is Attillah, I’m 26, and I love to give meggies. Don’t look surprised. I’m not the only one. Meggie-mania is alive and well...

Read More

Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle

Azonto Lessons

This is my first time! In Africa! I exclaim this first to the immigration officer. And thereafter to anyone else who comes too close. My...

Read More

Funding provided by the 11th EDF Regional Private Sector Development Programme Direct Support Grants Programme.
The views expressed on this website are those of the the authors and do not reflect those of the Direct Support Grants Programme.

Close