Author: Donna Yawching

Culture, Food and Cuisine, People, Trinidad and Tobago

King of the roti palace

It’s a frigid January morning in Toronto; but in the kitchen of the Caribbean Roti Palace, the temperature is almost tropical. Over a low...

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Culture, People

Snapshots (March/April 2008)

Shontelle Layne: focus pon me That’s the title of one of the tracks Shontelle Layne wrote for her debut album. But really, as she says to...

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Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

A Winter Tale: heartbreak and humour

If Frances-Anne Solomon looked a little haggard when we met, it was entirely understandable. Just a few days earlier, her film A Winter...

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Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Bruce Poon Tip: capitalist with a conscience

Like Mary Poppins, Bruce Poon Tip is practically perfect. That’s certainly the impression you get, talking to the people who surround...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Fire and ice

It was diabolically cold, that day in March when I took the ferry from downtown Toronto across to Ward’s Island. The wind would have been...

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Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Hurricane Harold helps out

It’s a grey day in late October, threatening rain. Harold Hosein is standing inside a 40-foot container, in a scruffy warehouse yard on...

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Culture, Arts, People, Jamaica

Art Beat: Barrington Watson

Normally, in a profile of this sort, a writer would refer to the subject by his last name. “Mr Watson” to his face; “Watson” on the...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, United States

Postcard from Washington

The trauma, no doubt, still runs deep; but it would take more than a terrorist plane-bomb to destroy the spirit of Washington DC. September...

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