Author: Lisa Allen-Agostini

Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Wining words: a Trinidad Carnival wining dictionary | Classic | Last word

When I was a little girl, it was bad form for a middle-class lass to play Brown Girl in the Ring and actually wine when she had to “show...

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Literature, Reviews

Caribbean bookshelf – January/February 2006

Freedom poems Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems – Nicolás Guillén, translated by Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres (Peepal Tree Press, ISBN...

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Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Barbados

Riffing in Barbados

Barbados. The name conjures up images of white sand, azure skies, and turquoise water. True, Barbados is all that, but come January each...

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Travel, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda

My blue Heaven: Antigua & Barbuda

Say it slow, with an island drawl: An-tee-ga. With a soft, quick start, a lazy stress on the middle, and a sweet sighing end. Don’t worry...

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Engage, Community, Culture, People, Jamaica

J-FLAG: Respecting difference

  “ What is the fear of stones  — n o, the fear of being stoned? What is it called, this expectancy some men carry in their...

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Immerse, Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Haiti

The Jacmel Ciné Institute: changing the story

There are countries that tell their own stories, and countries whose stories have been told for them. Haiti has long been one of the...

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Culture, Literature

Shakespeare and co.

Prospero’s Daughter, by Elizabeth Nunez (Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-45535-5, 316 pp) Grace, by Elizabeth Nunez (Ballantine Books, ISBN...

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Community, Culture, People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago

Daren Ganga: Coaching for cricketing talent

Daren Ganga has his eye on the future. “Cricket is my chosen sport and primary profession,” he says in an email interview. “However,...

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