By Mark Meredith ● Issue 39 (September/October 1999)
Natalie Reis: flamenco flame
Natalie Reis always knew she had rhythm. A Trinidadian of Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scottish, African, Carib, and Dominican...
Culture, Environment, Travel, Lifestyle, Montserrat
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 77 (January/February 2006)
Volcano is boss: Montserrat after the Soufrière Hills eruption
“It came upon us very suddenly one night — 18 July, 1995. It sounded in Plymouth as though a big jet was landing. It was roaring,”...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Suriname
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 58 (November/December 2002)
A Sip of Suriname
It’s one o’clock in the morning in Paramaribo. I’m in the back of a taxi piloted by a Guyanese man, flying through the puddles in...
Culture, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 28 (November/December 1997)
Bachacs: No Surrender
My tiny garden in England gave me few problems. If it looked parched in the summer, that was because of the hosepipe bans, and it always...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, People
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Caribbean Christmas Recipes from Khalid Mohammed
Last July, the Caribbean’s best chefs and bartenders gathered in Miami for the Caribbean Hotel Associations’s “Taste of the...
Culture, Environment, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 30 (March/April 1998)
Winston Nanan and the Caroni Swamp
When he was 11, Winston Nanan’s father pulled him out of school and sent him into the swamp. It should have been an inauspicious...
Culture, People, Sports, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 32 (July/August 1998)
Trinidad’s Stephen Ames: Seeing Green
Chaguaramas Public Golf Course on Trinidad’s north-west peninsula. A still, sultry February afternoon. Vultures wheel lazily under a...
Culture, Food and Cuisine, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Meredith ● Issue 34 (November/December 1998)
Tropical Chocs
Only during the short, frenzied feeding days of Easter do we eat even more chocolate. At this time of year, even after the saturation...