Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 87 (September/October 2007)
The Wild Fowl Trust: oasis of the oilbelt
Our tour guide dropped her voice and stepped gingerly across the boardwalk to a mango tree by the water. Between the shiny green leaves of...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
The Trinidad Carnival challenge
For two days every February, hundreds of thousands of people flock to the streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago’s capital, as...
Culture, Literature, Festivals and Events, Jamaica
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
Calabash 2007: a pot of gold
The winner of the 21st Commonwealth Writers’ Prize will be announced on May 27 at the Calabash International Literary Festival in...
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 83 (January/February 2007)
Christian Campbell: dreaming again
Tall, broad in the chest, and quirkily stylish, Christian Campbell might look more like a fashionista than one of the Caribbean’s fastest...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Jamaica
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 82 (November/December 2006)
Kei Miller: daring to intrude
Kei Miller’s stories and poems weave a tapestry of a Jamaica rich in religion, superstition, and magic. This twenty-eight-year-old...
Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
Words from underground
Once a month, a thick crowd crams into a tiny bar in St Augustine, Trinidad, to hear the heartbeat of the underground. Though it’s...
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
Edward Baugh: “Hey, you might be a poet”
I was born and grew up in a town in north-east Jamaica, Port Antonio, which is a seaport town, where bananas were first shipped from this...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Lisa Allen-Agostini ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
On the money
You can heft a bar of gold, see myriad credit and debit cards in a stylish mosaic, and play an interactive investment game to teach you...