Bridget van Dongen

Need to know | Events calendar (Nov/Dec 2018)

By Bridget van Dongen, Laura Dowrich-Phillips and Shelly-Ann Inniss | Issue 154 (November/December 2018)

Essential info to help you make the most of November and December across the Caribbean

The celebration of Las Parrandas de Remedios nears its dramatic climax. Photo by Stephen Smith/Alamy Stock Photo

OK to be proud | Inspire

By Bridget van Dongen | Issue 152 (July/August 2018)

Six years ago, the tragic suicide of a teenager motivated the launch of an initiative to support young LGBTQ people in Trinidad and Tobago. Bridget van Dongen reports on the Silver Lining Foundation, and how they work to protect the vulnerable

Silver Lining Foundation members and friends at their Easter 2018 family event in Port of Spain’s Queen’s Park Savannah. Photo by Brandon Kalyan courtesy the Silver Lining Foundation

An appetite for travel

By Bridget van Dongen | Issue 108 (March/April 2011)

Rosemary Parkinson cooks her way round the country in Nyam Jamaica. Bridget van Dongen followed hungrily in her footsteps

Norma Shirley’s smoked pork. Photograph by Rosemary Parkinson

Resort to bliss

By Bridget van Dongen | Issue 126 (March/April 2014)

Bridget van Dongen isn’t usually the five-star-resort type. But when a new survey determined that four of the Caribbean’s most expensive holiday resorts are in Antigua and Barbuda, she decided it was time for some research into life on the edge of the infinity pool