People, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Denise Healy ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Boldon the Beautiful? Trinidad Sprinter Ato Boldon
Adrenaline: a hormone secreted by the adrenal gland, causing excitement and stimulation. “On your marks!” Eight well-muscled...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Bishop ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Trinidad Carnival Preview
Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival is not a newly-invented tourist festival: it is a deeply-rooted ritual that goes to the heart of the...
By Franklin McKnight ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
The Peter Rousseau Factor
Perhaps it was the travels with his father, who was a salesman for Grace, Kennedy & Co. (Jamaica’s largest food processor and...
Culture, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Indigo: Marina Warner
The English writer Marina Warner was almost a Trinidadian. In the 1970s, when Britain s nationality laws were changed, she realised that if...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Island Beat (January/February 1996)
BARBADOS AIMS FOR A NATIONAL GALLERY A major new art gallery opens in Barbados this year, and could become the centre of a national art...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Upbeat (Nov/Dec 1996)
Viva Le King The Roaring Lion (Ice Records 951002) Here’s an album that successfully combines vintage calypso with modern styling. In...
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Hunting for Fidel
I am no great pillar of capitalism. But you see communism? I can’t afford it. One night of socialist fever almost killed my feeble...
Culture, Environment, Arts, Lifestyle
By Merle Gunby ● Issue 18 (March/April 1996)
Turtle Watching in the Caribbean: Out of the Deep
Merle Gunby watches as one of the earth’s oldest and strangest creatures – the Leatherback turtle – carries out her nesting...