Author: Lisa Allen-Agostini

Environment, Science, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Literature, Festivals and Events, Jamaica

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...

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Culture, Literature, People

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...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Jamaica

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...

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Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, People, Jamaica

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...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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