Author: Pat Ganase

Culture, Business, Grenada

Grenada: After the storm

What happens next when you wake up with your house in shambles around you? You stand under the blue sky in the golden sunshine, and say,...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Peter Minshall: Lord of the Dance

“Barcelona has honoured the art form of a little island,” says Peter Minshall. Minshall is a great talker, but he does not...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Caribbean Diaspora

Trinidad Mas: Carnival of the World

In Toronto, a vulture in a paratrooper’s jumpsuit, with wings of black cotton hung like washing on a bamboo pole, wearing a Gulf War...

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Culture

Island Beat (September/October 1996)

A Dash of Bitters What respectable bar or kitchen in the world does not have a bottle of Angostura bitters? First made in 1824 and now...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Skywatching in Tobago

You can drive around Tobago in a day. You can fly there in the morning – the first flight from Trinidad puts you on the ground before...

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Culture, Film and Television, Lifestyle

Cinema Paradiso

“Ram-bo! Ram-bo!” the fella in front chanted, punching the air with his fist every time Sylvester Stallone did something worth...

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Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Machel Montano: Winer Man

On the Trinidad Carnival stage, he is notorious for every kind of “wine.” Legs apart, he “throws waist” to the wild...

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Culture, Music, People, Jamaica

Byron Lee: Soca Dragon

There’s a body on the bare wooden stage. The open-air “dancehall” is by the sea on the north-western peninsula of Trinidad. It is...

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