Feast from the East
When I was growing up in Port of Spain during the Seventies, we knew nothing about Arabic food. It was not part of the national culinary...
Amerindian Guyana
It’s the height of the rainy season, in July, and several Makushi women are talking about the uniforms their children need for the new...
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...
Sandra Dean: Rethinking Education
How does the sheltered daughter of a suburban community in Trinidad come to be one of the most decorated principals in Canada? What is it...
Golden Jubilee: UWI at 50
Professor Rex Nettleford examines the first 50 years of UWI as “a history of creative response to the challenge of change” In 1948,...
Orisha Trinidad: Drums and Colours
It is time for the invisible to reveal themselves. The drums are speaking to the ancient ancestors of Africa. Tonight in a rural garden in...
Happy Holi
Phagwa, or Holi, in Trinidad usually follows on the heels of Carnival. It is a festival of Hindu origin brought by the Indian indentured...
All Souls’ Day: remembrance of friends past
I remember being bathed in the soft golden glow of a thousand flickering candles, as the crisp November night air carried the scent of...
