Port of Spain: the story of a city | Backstory By Judy Raymond | Issue 151 (May/June 2018) A childhood encounter with a touring steelband began Stephen Stuempfle’s connection with Trinidad. Now the US scholar has written an illuminating history of Port of Spain in the era before Independence. As Judy Raymond learns, Stuempfle’s research has only deepened his love for T&T’s capital
Fanny Eaton: forgotten beauty By Judy Raymond | Issue 143 (January/February 2017) In the paintings of the nineteenth-century British Pre-Raphaelite artists, one “exotic” face stands out. Fanny Eaton, born in Jamaica, was a mixed-race model who found herself, for a few years, near the heart of Victorian London’s art world — and was long forgotten. Judy Raymond tells what’s known of her story
The Merikins: heroes of the forgotten war By Judy Raymond | Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 140 (July/August 2016) Two hundred years ago, a group of free black veterans of the War of 1812 arrived in Trinidad. In the island’s deep south, the villages they founded still preserve the traditions of the “Merikins,” as writer Judy Raymond and photographer Marlon Rouse discover — and still have much to teach their fellow citizens
Angelo Bissessarsingh: back in times By Judy Raymond | Issue 138 (March/April 2016) For Trinidadian Angelo Bissessarsingh, what started as a childhood obsession with yesteryear artefacts grew into a passion for researching and writing about history that’s helped reignite public interest in T&T’s complicated past. Judy Raymond tells the story of a young historian’s archive and love for what once was
Gerard Besson: “I’m such a set of loose ends” By Judy Raymond | Issue 136 (November/December 2015) Trinidadian historian and publisher Jerry Besson on his eccentric relatives and colourful career — as told to Judy Raymond
Carifesta: A Grand Family Reunion By Judy Raymond | Issue 1 (Spring 1992) This summer in Trinidad and Tobago the Caribbean stages its arts festival, Carifesta, for only the fifth time in two decades. Judy Raymond reports
Word of mouth (January/February 2015) By Judy Raymond, John Robert Lee and Attillah Springer | Issue 131 (January/February 2015) Trinidad’s stickfighting season, a new film about the history of steel pan, and St Lucia’s week of Nobel celebrations
Picking the Big Apple By Judy Raymond | Issue 107 (January/February 2011) ...or should that be picking in the Big Apple? Judy Raymond is spoilt for choice in New York City