Film and Television, United States
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 76 (November/December 2005)
Gimme tempo
MTV Tempo, the American music channel’s foray into the Caribbean market, was launched in October to cable markets across the Caribbean,...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, History
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
Dining like the ancestors
We don’t know enough about the pre-Columbian history of the Caribbean. Many believe that our island chain — formed through tectonic...
Immerse, Culture, Technology, People, Barbados
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
Troy Weekes: “We too can be creators”
As a young man growing up in St Philip, which is the south-eastern side of Barbados, most evenings I would sit down on the verandah and...
Immerse, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 129 (September/October 2014)
Maxine Williams: “Big ideas can change the world”
I started using Facebook in 2007. I joined as an employee in 2013 — I am the global head of diversity for Facebook. That means that I...
Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 107 (January/February 2011)
Martin Raymond: “go back to Caribbean music”
There were no musicians in the family, but while I was growing up in Trinidad there was a lot of music around. Directly above us lived John...
Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 98 (July/August 2009)
Machel Montano: Man with a mission
Fresh from the high of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Machel Montano is taking his Caribbean Planet brand on the road, as he firmly believes...
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 93 (September/October 2008)
Reaching for the sky
As part of its world tour, titled Humanity, the legendary American rock band The Scorpions will perform in Trinidad on September 23—with...
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 93 (September/October 2008)
It came from the Caribs
The hammock is sometimes used to illustrate the carefree, relaxed environment one associates with a Caribbean vacation. But that image...