By Pat Ganase ● Issue 71 (January/February 2005)
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,...
Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 3 (Autumn 1992)
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...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Caribbean Diaspora
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 12 (Winter 1994)
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...
By Mark Lyndersay and Pat Ganase ● Issue 21 (September/October 1996)
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...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 22 (November/December 1996)
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...
Culture, Film and Television, Lifestyle
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 22 (November/December 1996)
Cinema Paradiso
“Ram-bo! Ram-bo!” the fella in front chanted, punching the air with his fist every time Sylvester Stallone did something worth...
Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 25 (May/June 1997)
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...
Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Pat Ganase ● Issue 30 (March/April 1998)
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...