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Music, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

The Willard White Way

The life of an opera singer is not all glamour. The bass baritone Willard White is sitting in a blank hotel room in Liverpool, looking out...

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Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Beryl McBurnie: the First Lady of Dance

Last year, the brewers of Trinidad and Tobago’s best-known beer introduced a smaller-sized bottle. It immediately became known as a...

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Culture, Music, Barbados

The Sugar of Spice

The stadium was packed beyond capacity, the stands and the grounds a dense patchwork of revellers. It was the largest crowd ever gathered...

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Culture, Music, Jamaica

Redemption Songs

How can you be so ungrateful/After all that God has done for you . . . Unlikely lyrics for a contemporary Jamaican smash hit? Only a year...

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Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

You Must Help Him (from Earl Lovelace’s “Salt”)

She saw him on the shore, still eighteen, with the pathos of his pulled-down cap and his dark shades, his affected seriousness, and his...

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Community, Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

The Chutney Phenomenon

To a visitor in the 1920s, Debe, in south-west Trinidad, was “almost wholly a Hindu town”. Seventy years later it’s still...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Guyana

Philip Moore: It Takes a Village

I interrupted him again this morning. He was at work in a makeshift studio on the ground floor of a busy complex in central Georgetown,...

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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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